Hands up who doesn't care and who will still be buying a Wii U...
*Raises hand*
Honest question, if you're that bothered about the region lock, why not import like I'm going to?
Nope. It's been like this since the original Famicom/NES.Was there any Nintendo home console that wasn't region locked?
Honest question, if you're that bothered about the region lock, why not import like I'm going to?
Not really surprised. Nintendo seems to love their region locking, which is sad as the DS was gloriously region free.
Because that rewards them for region locking, assuming you're buying a local region console as well. If it was region free you wouldn't own 2. I own a North American 3DS and am not going to buy anything I can't play on it, nor will I buy a foreign 3DS out of that principle.
Nope. It's been like this since the original Famicom/NES.
The DS was region free... did Nintendo ever explain what made them change their mind again?
Why would you buy a local region console as well?
Why would you buy a local region console as well? I'm importing from Japan (fair enough I've been learning Japanese for 3 years), but I know for a fact it'll have the best games/shop (look at the 3DS). I guess it's more of a problem between US/Europe as sometimes one region gets one thing and others they don't. Xenoblade is a bad example of that.
Because I tend to buy games from all 3 regions. I'm in Europe:Honest question, if you're that bothered about the region lock, why not import like I'm going to?
Strange that they decided to make the DSi region locked.. it all started there..
I've never seen that before but that's pretty amusing. That was just a bypass of the physical cartridge modification of the NTSC regions right, not for between PAL and NTSC?remember this badboy for the snes
http://regionfreegamer.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/snes_adaptor_3.jpg
I had one of these. PAL game in front, US game in the back. It's how I played FFremember this badboy for the snes
PSN -> not region locked
How is that even a question? Why don't people bothered that they have to buy an extra console just to play japanese games buy an extra console to play japanese games?Honest question, if you're that bothered about the region lock, why not import like I'm going to?
remember this badboy for the snes
remember this badboy for the snes
didn't need it. all you need to do is get a plier and kinda clip/pull/remove those little plastic chips inside the cartridge hole to enable playing jp cartridge.
Honest question, if you're that bothered about the region lock, why not import like I'm going to?
I've never seen that before but that's pretty amusing. That was just a bypass of the physical cartridge modification of the NTSC regions right, not for between PAL and NTSC?
This is one of these times where I wish we had some real journalists working in the field, roasting Nintendo over these sorts of decisions.
Region locking should be up to publishers, not hardware owners. I have no objection to region locking when it's done for real reasons (different publishers in different regions, differences in releases dates, etc). But a blanket region lock policy is dumb. Microsoft did it right with 360.
remember this badboy for the snes
remember this badboy for the snes
I wouldn't say they did it right with 360. Sure, it's better than a completely locked system, but I would be annoyed having to ask "is it region locked?" every time a game comes out.
Sony did it right with PS3.
One should think that after the homebrew catastrophe on the Wii Nintendo would know better and make the Wii U region-free from the beginning. Many of the achievements of Wii's homebrew scene only have been possible because people wanted to play their fucking out-of-region games...
It's not surprising, of course, but with more sophisticated online infrastructures consoles aren't as easily hackable as in the past. A freeloader would be blocked in a few days' time nowadays and if Nintendo's OS isn't a clusterfuck this time around they might even be able to prevent hacking.
As always, the enthusiast customer is the loser. Why not throw a bone to the part of your userbase which buys the most games by far?
Boycotting.
DLC is disc region-locked.
PSN is also sort of region-locked since 1 or 2 years. Previously it was possible to use creditcards from everywhere and then they locked it to only accept creditcards from the respective region.
Yeah, I could use PSN cards, but I don't want to. Instead I'm "using" a friend in US and he uses me for European store purchases, it still sucks.
Sad, but expected.
Some europeans praising sony seem to forget that most websites didn't ship PS3/PSP games to EU. Again, the main problem isn't the region-locking, it's the fact that games aren't released in certain territories.
They didn't really change their mind again. The GameBoy was region free. They changed policy once with the DSi and stuck with it.
You'll never get a straight answer as to why. Some say it was pressure from third party publishers.