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Let's convince Nintendo to go region-free!

UPDATED 7/12: NOW IS THE TIME!!!

FAQ: Can region-locking be removed from the Wii U and 3DS?

We are operating on the assumption that it can be removed through a simple firmware update.

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This week, we declare our independence from region-locking!

Customer service statement via Barrel Roll Gaming:

Nintendo of America said:
Nintendo has no plans to remove region locking from our systems. By taking this approach, Nintendo is able to include parental controls and ensure compliance with regional standards and rating systems.

This holds absolutely ZERO water, as adults don't need ratings systems. Even when parental controls do come into play, it would be extremely simple for there to be a setting to block games from unfamiliar ratings systems by default. Even parents should have the option to allow foreign games.

The campaign continues!

PS4 and Xbox One are now BOTH totally region-free. We can do it!

I'm asking for YOUR support to help end region-locking once and for all. Contact Nintendo by any means possible and DEMAND an end to region-locking NOW!

As you know, every Nintendo home console since the NES and every handheld since the DSi has made use of region-locking. This has kept many region-exclusive titles out of the hands of otherwise prospective customers. If it hadn't been for the original DS being region-free, not many in the West would've been able to play Ouendan and turn it into a a cult hit.

Now, more than ever, is our chance to tell Nintendo that we want the Wii U and 3DS to be made region-free. Please help in any way that you can. Please remember to be polite!

Ask your favorite video game journalists to cover this campaign!

While localizations are wonderful and will always have their place, the value of consumer choice in determining what games to consume cannot be denied.

Thanks for your help.

Please sign this petition! Now with over 22,000 signatures!

Here are just a few of the many, many Miiverse posts to "Yeah" and add your words of support! You guys rock; I can't keep up with them all!
Per Miiverse guidelines, be sure to post in the general-topic communities: YouTube, NintendoLand, Netflix, Hulu, TVii, Wii Street U, and other non-game-specific communities. An archive of previous days is in post 6 below.

https://miiverse.nintendo.net/posts/AYQHAAABAACNUKEXTMrcyA
zlCfzRCmyyEVBNteN1


https://miiverse.nintendo.net/posts/AYQHAAABAAABUaWzaJD6xA
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https://miiverse.nintendo.net/posts/AYMHAAABAAD4UV52ELS-7Q
zlCfzRCct3Qayfox3r


https://miiverse.nintendo.net/posts/AYQHAAABAAABUaWzYLgXqg
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The top 20/21 posts in the E3 2013 Community are about ending region-locking!


On Facebook and Twitter, use hash tags #EndRegionLocking and #NintendoRegionFree, and follow @EndRegionLock.

Like Operation Region-Free on Facebook!

Post on Nintendo's official Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Nintendo

Tweet at:
@Nintendo
@NintendoAmerica
@NintendoEurope
@NintendoUK
@NintendoES
@NintendoFrance
@‏NintendoDE

Here are some posts about this issue on Reddit!
http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1gsw4m/fans_begin_movement_for_nintendo_to_remove_region/
http://www.reddit.com/r/nintendo/comments/1gs8nq/top_posts_in_e3_miiverse_community_looks_like_the/
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1gq76t/consumer_choice_in_2013_lets_tell_nintendo_to_end/

Write a letter! Snail-mail addresses...

Nintendo Co., Ltd.
11-1 Hokotate-cho, Kamitoba,
Minami-ku, Kyoto
Japan

Nintendo of America
4600 150th Ave NE
Redmond, WA 98052

Nintendo of Europe GmbH
Nintendo Center
D-63760 Grossostheim
Germany

Mention that you'd like to see region-free systems on Club Nintendo surveys!

Media coverage!

Ars Technica
Atomix (Mexico)
Attack of the Fanboy
Cowboy TV (Greece)
Critical Hits (Brazil)
Cubed3
Eurogamer (Germany)
Explosion
Gamebug (Australia)
Gamechup
Gamekicker
Gameplorer (Germany)
Gameranx
Gamerzona (Spain) - 2
gamestitch
Gameswelt (Germany)
Gametalk
Gaming Vlog Network
Gamnesia - 2
HD Blog (Italy)
JP Games (Germany) - 2
Kulture Geek (France)
Lazygamer
Leviathyn
Los Gameboys (Mexico) - 2
Mii-Gamer
MyProffs - 1
MyProffs - 2
Nintendo Invader
Nintendo Teens
NintendoFans (Germany)
Nintendojo
PCG Media
Polygon
QuickJump
Spieletester (Germany)
Sponge
Stevivor
T3 (Australia)
TechnoBuffalo
TechRadar
TechSmart (South Africa)
Turtletechie
The Verge
WareGround IT News
Wii U News (Austria)
XGN (Netherlands)

YouTube videos!

BradleyNews11
BroKenGaMezHD
Content Patch
DaKidWiiTrailers
darkgamer001
Duxa7iva (Spanish)
GameSpot - 1
GameSpot - 2

KGPrestige
KITT171
nxtgen720
Ryan Maloney
Scottish DuckTales - 3
Scottish DuckTales - 4
ScottMtc (Italy)
SpanglishBoyGamer (Spanish)

Older media coverage is archived in post 17.

From sixteen-bit:

Title logo courtesy of XxBroBuzzxX.
 
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Who can we tweet to, unlike Sony, I dont know any Nintendo guy beside Miyamoto, Iwata and Reggie and I dont think they are on twitter interacting with gamers.
 
Man, I wish this would happen..
My Wii U doesn't have the biggest library in the world, being locked to the Japanese releases just sucks..
 

Somnid

Member
Hardware region-lock or no I want to see Nintendo do more things like what they are doing with Pokemon X/Y. Full simultaneous global release with language select is absolutely the ideal, region-unlocking is still a band-aid. Any little bit helps though.
 

Vinnk

Member
You can count on my steel Cheesemeister!

For this cause and your constant twitter live translations, I'd follow you to hell and back!

..Or at least retweet some of your stuff.
 
Not being region free is anti-consumer. Such a violation should not be tolerated. How dare they dictate where I can and cannot import games from.

I think Nintendo deserves their fair share after Microsoft and Sony.
 
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Amaebi (Japan)
Another Castle
CVG (UK)
derStandard (Austria)
Destructoid
Eurogamer
Fix&Play
Game Debate
Game Info & Blog 2.0 (Japan)
Game Rant
Game Revolution
GameDynamo
Gamekult (French)
Games Trust (Germany)
GameSpot
Gaming Blend
GamingBolt
GenGAME
GoPretendo - 2
GoPretendo - 3
Hachima Blog (Japan)
IGN
Inquisitr
Inside-Games (Japan)
InsideGamer (Netherlands)
Kotaku
Kotaku (Australia)
MCV (UK)
My Nintendo News
N-Europa
Nintendo Everything
Nintendo Insider
Nintendo Life
Puissance Nintendo
T3
Ubergizmo
VG247
Wii U Daily

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9lives (Belgium)
Analog Addiction
Atma Xplorer
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Barrel Roll Gaming
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Consolewars (Germany)
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Explosion
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VideoGamer Portugal (Portuguese, Google Translate)
Vooks (Australia)
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mp4podcastDOTcom
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KingSnake

The Birthday Skeleton
I don't get why people who call themselves gamers come to piss on this thread. They can do that in all the other Wii U threads.

Already yeahed.
 

Vinnk

Member
Seriously. You want to be looking up their fax number.

A lot of Japanese businesses (I would say most) still use fax machines. My company does and most of the places we order materials from want you to still fax the orders in. You think Japan is so high tech...
 
You have my sword.

I still haven't bought a 3DS because of region-lock - my DS game collection was already evenly splited up between the three major world regions, so a region-free hardware is a pretty big concern for me.
 

Sirius

Member
If Nintendo actually responded to the requests core install base, I'd be inclined to think that they might actually consider this.

But it is such a pointless attempt, at the end of the day Nintendo is still a corporation. Their stance on anti-piracy measures and local price gearing have always been strict, why would they let up for the satisfaction of a relative minority (Aus gaming market for example)?
 

Plinko

Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
If there's one company I expect to NOT listen to fans, it's Nintendo.
 

Avallon

Member
Even if we manage to have 10 times more visibility of #PS4noDRM Nintendo won't care, they are just done this way.

Do people really believe that #PS4noDRM made a damn bit of difference in defining how Sony's already-built console would function? I'm sure they saw it, but I highly doubt it made them change how their system functioned. The PS4 was most likely without Microsoft's restrictions in the first place.
 

Jamix012

Member
Seriously. You want to be looking up their fax number.

...Why do people insist Nintendo doesn't listen to the web? Their console online may be 2nd tier but really? It's because of the web we got operation rainfall to go through and Earthbound to come to the Wii U - which frankly is a lot more listening to it's fans than either Sony or MS have done.

Edit: Also 60hz VC. When exactly has Sony listened and responded to the community? The no DRM thing is a big maybe and they were probably already planning it before hand.
 

Nemesis_

Member
You do know that Nintendo's reason for no region free is the regional differences between games rated by ESRB, CERO and Peggie?

This makes no sense considering there are two other consoles, one of which is totally region free and the other is partially.

And both are subject to the same ratings boards / limitations.
 

DaBoss

Member

Terra_Ex

Member
It's an outdated and annoying practice that needs to end, but it probably won't. Doesn't hurt to try though.
 
I'll tweet, but I really don't think they'll do it, this isn't just a localization of few games like what operation Rainfall wanted, they'll have to make significant changes that would cost them tons of money.
 

danielcw

Member
Do we even know, if WiiU or 3DS games can be all region right now?
Is it possible on a technical level, wihtout much extra work or a redesign?
 

zroid

Banned
ugh... as much as I support this cause, it just feels so futile. :<

Haranguing them on Miiverse may be slightly more fruitful, at least.
 

Soulhouf

Member
Do we even know, if WiiU or 3DS games can be all region right now?
Is it possible on a technical level, wihtout much extra work or a redesign?

The games aren't the problem. Every game has a region code, even on PS3. It's just that the console doesn't block it when the region doesn't match.

Not gonna happen, sorry.
^This kind of mentality is laaaaame.
Nintendo can't ignore fan's protests if it becomes big enough.
So, why not try and be optimistic?
 

nubbe

Member
A lot of Japanese businesses (I would say most) still use fax machines. My company does and most of the places we order materials from want you to still fax the orders in. You think Japan is so high tech...

It would be funny if Nintendo got thousands of faxes one morning
 
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