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Nintendo 3DS Region Code confirmed by Nintendo JP Support
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Zoramon089
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This is garbage, and worst of all, you won't get a single journalist asking Iwata for justification. It'd be a simple question. Why enforce region locking if you aren't going to release all games in all territories? What is someone supposed to do if they want to play a game that Nintendo has no plans of releasing in their region? I mean, I just want an answer for this
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Zoramon089 said:
What's that you asked? What we should do about region-exclusive content? I've got your answer!
"Nintendo is proud to release a thrilling slate of exciting content for all consumers this quarter. Consumers will love the classic adventures found in DRAGON QUEST VI (TM) REALMS OF REVERIE only for Nintendo DS, while kids from 2-92 go crazy for POKEMON (TM) BLACK and POKEMON (TM) WHITE, the latest generation of the hit POKEMON (TM) game series, featuring new POKEMON (TM) to collect! And who doesn't enjoy Mario and his friends when they get together to play some sports! With MARIO (TM) SPORTS MIX (TM), fans can play Mario, Luigi, and even some friends from the FINAL FANTASY (TM) series in four exciting sporting events! Nintendo is always announcing new content, so stay tuned to Nintendo.com for more announcements.
FINAL FANTASY (TM) and related marks are licensed from SQUARE-ENIX INC. AMERICA HOLDING CORP.
For press inquiries, contact Golin Harris"
This is what pisses me off the most. I'd love for region encoding to not exist, but at least make it optional. If you know your game is not going to leave Japan, make it region free. I still want to buy your game, but I'm not going to buy a game I can't play. If you made it region free, you're not losing out on sales in my region because you have no intention of selling it. But when an import site buy a copy of your game to sell to me, you make a profit. Everyone wins.Zoramon089 said:
antispin said:
Considering how much of the market Gamestop alone has cornered, I would imagine adding in the big-box stores would pretty much mean that ma-and-pa shops are leaning on something other than video game sales to stay in business. But lawls yes, lets nip that in the bud quick.
durrrrrrrrrr
Member
any chance of the region code being like Blu-rays where America and Japan are both region 1?
Pureauthor
Member
GDGF said:
Being surprised is not the same as being disappointed.
plagiarize
Banned
if they truly pay to regionalise it to my region and they do it well, i would wait to buy it from them. region locking provides them with no insentive to do it well. they do not have to compete with other versions.hooo said:
they pay for copies to be made that they sell. so that doesn't matter. if more people import they make less copies.
they pay to advertise it based on how big a market exists that might want to buy it.
it's not like once the game is out in a territory that many people in that territory will run out and buy an import copy that isn't regionalised to them, that they can't just walk out a store with.
a US distributor does the things you list because they want to make money. if a game already exists and is already playable without regionalising, and everyone that wants it *can* import it, if no US distributor wants to pick it up, it's not a big deal to me or anyone else in the region free world because we can still play it.
no one would be forced into bringing a game into a market that doesn't want it because they've all already imported it.
closing the market off is anti consumer. i am a consumer.
i do not care which country's distributor gets my money. should i?
Palette Swap
Member
I don't know what's worse between the actual region locking and people going out of their way to defend this bullshit.
The funny thing is that when the 3DS is hacked, and it will be, the same assholes will probably be dumbfounded as to why someone would need to hack it except for piracy. :lol
I have about 20 games for each of the 3 regions on DS so it's a big thing to me and I sure as hell won't buy a 3DS for each region to thank Nintendo for doing this.
The funny thing is that when the 3DS is hacked, and it will be, the same assholes will probably be dumbfounded as to why someone would need to hack it except for piracy. :lol
I have about 20 games for each of the 3 regions on DS so it's a big thing to me and I sure as hell won't buy a 3DS for each region to thank Nintendo for doing this.
I can't wait for another cognitive-dissonance-age debate... More features in your system = less hackers interested in hacking it. Pirates and people who hack things just to prove they can will always be there, but look at the PS3. The major hacking by the really talented groups didn't happen until OtherOS was taken away.Palette Swap said:
I know I should have seen it coming because of the DSi, but it just seems strange that every Nintendo console has been region locked (even if it was just making the cartridges different shapes), but every handheld has been region free. And now everything is region locked.antonz said:
plagiarize
Banned
how obvious something is has nothing to do with how palatable it is.antonz said:
i've presumed the 3DS was going to be region locked since it was announced (given what we saw on the DSi). i factored that into my decision when i pre-ordered one.
none of that means i have to like that it is region locked, or indeed, not voice my complaint about it.
turnbuckle
Member
GDGF said:
What does it mean to "prepare for it"? Bitching about it before it was officially announced would just be getting upset over speculation. Preparing for the worst is nothing more than telling people they should just quietly accept it.
What a useless consumer.
Palette Swap
Member
My 2 favorite DS puzzlers are Slitherlink and Pic Pic. The former is JP only, the latter is JP/EU only.zoku88 said:
Being predictable doesn't make it suddenly acceptable. No drama here, only confirmed disappointment and I can't see why it shouldn't be voiced.antonz said:
plagiarize
Banned
i did prepare.GDGF said:
i prepared a statement voicing my upset at this.
Starwolf_UK
Member
I'll join the line of people screaming no region free=no buy, utter disgrace, journalists should storm the stage next week and hold people hostage but they won't because they'll never be contacted by Nintendo again if they dare try to stage an uprising against Lord Iwata etc etc...I'll also be writing a stern letter to David Yarnton and Satoru Shibata on the matter (as well as Inazuma Eleven not getting a UK release, there is not releasing a game in a region and then there is not releasing it in the country) whenever I get time (and some postage stamps :lol ).
I think it was due to the fact you had to pay for approval for each region. Also if it turns out popular enough one of those niche publishers will pick it up (e.g.Deathsmiles) but you'll make it so they get NA only so EU will want the action so you get some money (form selling the licenses for those regions) for spending none...I don't 100% follow the logic either and it doesn't make total sense.Tempy said:
Even then it was only some of the EU (or the UK release was extremely limited). In any case there wasn't much stock to go around at all.Palette Swap said:
I never managed to get a copy...just like Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World should have jumped on the French Amazon marketplaces sellers who were cheap and shipping to the UK when I could...
Great job, Nintendo. People have to go to ROM sites to play games that they've already purchased. Piracy has always been so easy on handhelds so I don't understand the reasoning behind this. Sure, no region locking means a publisher might lose out on some price gorging (this would be terrible, i know :lol ) but it also might make piracy take longer to appear and would certainly reduce the amount of people with flash carts.DR2K said:
Starwolf_UK
Member
The link in the first post (a South Korean forum...IIRC isn't South Korea the only major Nintendo region not to have a 3DS release date) shows a screenshot that says support@nintendo.co.jp.antonz said:
I think I once wrote an e-mail once to nintendo@nintendo.co.jp (back in about 1999) asking for any old NES, SNES or Game Boy developer kits they had. They told me they had none and then directed to me how to join their developer program.