we got anothercode and disaster day of crisis thoughFoffy said:It's very sporadic.
Super Smash Bros Brawl:
Japan - January 31, 2008
North America - March 9, 2008
Australia - June 26, 2008
Europe - June 27, 2008
Kirby's Epic Yarn:
Japan - October 14, 2010
North America - October 17, 2010
Europe - February 25, 2011 (!!)
Mario Sports Mix:
Japan - November 25, 2010
Australia - January 27, 2011
Europe - January 28, 2011
United Kingdom - February 4, 2011
North America - February 7, 2011
And of course, there's the games that Europe never gets, which could just be a list sad enough it'd make anybody cry.
El-Suave said:The DS has been doing so well in Europe (and in the higher priced countries within Europe) it should have demonstrated to Nintendo that they don't really need region codes. I really don't get why they see the need for it at least as far as the US/Europe(Aus)/Japan territories are concerned. Don't know about the rest of Asia and the other regions tough.
JustAnotherOtaku said:IIRC, there was one recently where it was rumoured to be region locked because it was on 360 but in the end it was region free on PS3. Can't remember which game it was though.
farnham said:we got anothercode and disaster day of crisis though
onken said:That was a such a non-story, I think Play-Asia put "JP only" or something in their Bayonetta listing, thrown in a healthy dash of wishful thinking from the XDF and suddenly a precedent had been set! Or not, as it turned out.
Vanille said:This is what confuses me. Nintendo's fears are not based on reality.
just for blu-ray, DVD video and PS1, PS2 games. All PS3 games work on every console regardless of region except for SD standard for PAL and NTSC games, some NTSC or PAL games may not boot on NTSC or PAL consoles in SD mode output due to differences in video standards and you get an error message instead, obviously by using HD output this won't be an issue for PS3 games.Pyrokai said:Aren't PS3 consoles region locked, though? What's the difference between locking a system and locking a game?
This is just silly. No one cares outside of a few people on messageboards. Region locks aren't some massive consipracy against every consumer of videogames. 99% of the gamebuying public doesn't care in the least.Ushojax said:They're probably going back to their price fixing and gouging ways, I imagine the bean counters insist on it. Maybe one day a journalist will have the spine to actually question what Nintendo does instead of drooling all over them. It's hard to believe that the actual content creators at Nintendo would be in favour of region locking.
Dave Long said:This is just silly. No one cares outside of a few people on messageboards. Region locks aren't some massive consipracy against every consumer of videogames. 99% of the gamebuying public doesn't care in the least.
mrklaw said:how will this impact online gaming? Do you think they'll completely regionalise online so US can only play against US? That'd be shitty. And didn't Capcom's SFIV presentation show global online?
mrklaw said:how will this impact online gaming? Do you think they'll completely regionalise online so US can only play against US? That'd be shitty. And didn't Capcom's SFIV presentation show global online?
Dave Long said:This is just silly. No one cares outside of a few people on messageboards. Region locks aren't some massive consipracy against every consumer of videogames. 99% of the gamebuying public doesn't care in the least.
Londa said:Not a problem for me sense I don't speak Japanese. I don't find playing games in a language I don't understand "fun". Yes I will miss out on some games, but I've learned to live with if for this long.
Pureauthor said:It's not just about speaking Japanese.
Live in Europe? No Strange Journey, EO2, or EO3 for you!
Live in the US? Inazuma 11? Tingle? What's that?
Londa said:Not a problem for me sense I don't speak Japanese. I don't find playing games in a language I don't understand "fun". Yes I will miss out on some games, but I've learned to live with if for this long.
i don't agree with your made up figure. it might only occasionally be relevant, but i know from experience that many people who travel on holiday buy games for their kids who have brought their hand helds with them. they are often concerned that they might not work. i work at a Gamestop in a holiday destination. i see it week in week out come the summer. these are average people who don't know if DS games will work on their EU system or not, these are not tech savvy people, yet they want to buy American games while here.Dave Long said:This is just silly. No one cares outside of a few people on messageboards. Region locks aren't some massive consipracy against every consumer of videogames. 99% of the gamebuying public doesn't care in the least.
Somnid said:I find this less related to region locking and more related to localization effort.
Foffy said:What about games in a language you can grasp but still not released where you live? When Demon's Souls came out, the Asian version had English text, making it very import friendly.
And we all know what the craze from importers about the game resulted in.
I'm not really directing my comment at the ones who care for their own selfish reasons (and I mean that in the good sense of the word selfish... because hey, people all dig different stuff) but for those who say things like "bye bye 3DS" as if this has any actual bearing on the system's success or failure. It doesn't.Stumpokapow said:Yes, but we are those "few people on message boards"--so there's not really any reason to post "lol nerds who gives a shit" in the thread, and in the mean time 1) this isn't a case of failing to support something people want to do, it's a case of actively blocking it, which is obnoxious no matter how niche the use case is, and 2) "99% of the gamebuying public" doesn't buy 100 games a year like a lot of people on GAF do so it's not like there's a 1:1 equivalence in terms of how it makes sense to treat customers.
darkwing said:this, majority of the 3DS buying public won't care about importing a game
beje said:NoA won't localise any game without money-printing potential
slaughterking said:I would really like to punch Iwata, Reggie and whoever else supported this idea in the face. Maybe scream at them like a psychopath, too. With angry tears in my eyes. >:I
Seriously, this is fucking awful. I demand justice! I want the Nintendo execs to get called out on this in every interview from now on. Maybe throw tomatoes at them during the next e3 press conference. :lol
Somnid said:I find this less related to region locking and more related to localization effort.
and they've already sussed out what to do to fix that problem on a region free system like the DS. release it in Europe at the same time as the US version. Black and White are coming out a couple of days before US even right?Ushojax said:Nintendo has always been like this, though. They seem to think that if they don't release a game themselves in a certain market, for whatever reason, it's better that market isn't able to play it at all. They also don't like importing as it used to be a lot cheaper to buy US games, and they would also come out much earlier. I remember they threw a huge bitch fit when Pokemon Ruby was being imported before the EU release, that led to high-street stores dropping imports altogether.
This isn't true in the US. Import sections were never commonplace in the US. Certain mom and pop stores have had them, mostly in big cities and they also would do mail order. This is how the likes of NCSX and Diehard Gamefan made their name. However, they were not the norm, not even close.plagiarize said:i know that Europe is very savvy about importing because they've been given reason to. i know that import sections in video game stores used to be very common until Nintendo agressively went after them.
Dave Long said:Also, I wouldn't call it "obnoxious" that they're blocking by region. It's more like "annoying", "expected" and "not that big a deal".
Dave Long said:I'm not really directing my comment at the ones who care for their own selfish reasons (and I mean that in the good sense of the word selfish... because hey, people all dig different stuff) but for those who say things like "bye bye 3DS" as if this has any actual bearing on the system's success or failure. It doesn't.
Also, I wouldn't call it "obnoxious" that they're blocking by region. It's more like "annoying", "expected" and "not that big a deal".
i know it isn't true here, because its very rare for a game to come out in English cheaper and earlier in other countries. Europe is a massive market though, i know it's the American way to pretend the rest of the world doesn't exist, or count, but if Europe didn't exist, i doubt that Nintendo would have even felt the need to do this.Dave Long said:This isn't true in the US. Import sections were never commonplace in the US. Certain mom and pop stores have had them, mostly in big cities and they also would do mail order. This is how the likes of NCSX and Diehard Gamefan made their name. However, they were not the norm, not even close.
Importing videogames has never been a huge deal, especially outside of California and some large cities. It's blown way out of proportion by the Internet.
Stumpokapow said:In the mean time, annoying and obnoxious are synonyms
and I refuse to believe that the semantic distinction between the two merits making contrarian replies to people about their word choice.
Dave Long said:I'm not really directing my comment at the ones who care for their own selfish reasons (and I mean that in the good sense of the word selfish... because hey, people all dig different stuff) but for those who say things like "bye bye 3DS" as if this has any actual bearing on the system's success or failure. It doesn't.
And really, I still think your number 2) is a non-issue among the 1% because most of those folks aren't buying imports in any real quantity either. They just want the option there if a game or two comes out over the life of the system that never gets localized and gains a huge cult following.
Also, I wouldn't call it "obnoxious" that they're blocking by region. It's more like "annoying", "expected" and "not that big a deal".
Pureauthor said:It's not just about speaking Japanese.
Live in Europe? No Strange Journey, EO2, or EO3 for you!
Live in the US? Inazuma 11? Tingle? What's that?
What about games in a language you can grasp but still not released where you live? When Demon's Souls came out, the Asian version had English text, making it very import friendly.
And we all know what the craze from importers about the game resulted in.
gerg said:No, they're not.
plagiarize said:and they've already sussed out what to do to fix that problem on a region free system like the DS. release it in Europe at the same time as the US version. Black and White are coming out a couple of days before US even right?
doing that solves the issue of people importing pokemon without forcing region restrictions on people and without suing stores that dared offer imported titles.