When it comes to crazy marketing moves, Wario has always been the king as far as Nintendo is concerned. He’s tried to brainwash customers into buying Super Mario Land 2 and destroying Mario. He’s promoted his Wii U title through a parody crowdfunding campaign called ‘Crowdfarter’. And now with WarioWare Gold, it seems he’s taken […] Source
I don't know.
Looking at the screenshots and videos, it seems to only affect the European eShop, which is the region that gets the game 1 week before anyone else.
If the American eShop Warified its eShop too already, then I don't know.
On the other hand, Japan is more of an audience that would go to the physical stores to buy a game instead, and promotion is very clear especially in bigger stores like Yodobashi Akiba (which I showed photos of on your Discord server few weeks ago).
