On the Gamecube they were.
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Emily Rogers: NX might be region free
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On the Gamecube they were.
at least we don't have to resort to hacking to play games a year earlier if they make it region free.
kuroneko0509
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yeah I saw it. and tbh too lazy to edit considering our posts are just 1 minutes apart, and even if I edit it, you'll miss it anyway
i'm not denying it, but the original quote is about talking non-localized games in Nintendo Direct thread, not about how to play it
SolidChamp
Banned
Yep.
I'm probably going to bite on this. It'll be my first Nintendo home console since the GameCube.
Yeah I thought so, too. At least some were. Main difference now is that Emily states retail units may also be region free, and that Nintendo stated they are looking into region free for NX.
TannerDemoz
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Bitch Pudding
Member
My sources say that region-freeness has a 50/50 chance, though there's only a 10 percent chance of that.
Dark Cloud
Member
So Nintendo is still using the 3DS as a fallback? I mean it's not much of a fallback because its sales will continue to decline.
There just has to be multiple NX systems in case the first NX fails.
There just has to be multiple NX systems in case the first NX fails.
At this point I think we need a separate thread "Why do I think Emily is (not) to be trusted".
I don't think it is necessary to have this discussion again and again in every thread. Mods will lock the threads that they consider not worthy/reliable, so we don't really need this *edited* detective work *edited* all the time.
YianGaruga
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Cheesemeister
Member
We shall see...
Black Republican
Member
oh wow
first region free Nintendo Home console since....?
first region free Nintendo Home console since....?
Otakumegane
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It's not happening. They execs laid it out pretty clearly they don't want it happening.
And I posted an answer. Isn't this how it works?
YianGaruga
Banned
you accused them of backseat modding instead of giving an answer
Toadthemushroom
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Nice news if it does indeed extend to the retail hardware. I posted this in the other thread on the subject:
I'm more interested in finding out whether it's region free for digital content. Currently the best model seems to be iOS, which doesn't tie your Apple ID to every service on the device.
Instead you can sign out of the App Store, retain your primary Apple ID for iMessage, iCloud, Game Center etc., but sign into the App Store using a different Apple ID from a different region, purchase and download content from iBooks, Music, App Store, then sign back into your primary account and have no restrictions on how you use that content. You can also change the country your primary account is associated with, if you can prove it with a billing address.
Given the way games are distributed nowadays you're going to miss out much more on Japan-only digital titles than physical games. But on the other hand, Nintendo is the most forward thinking out of the big three in terms of making it as easy as possible to publish games worldwide: the eShop supports the IARC ratings system, which lets developers generate a bunch of worldwide ratings for a digital game free of charge. But currently it doesn't support Japan's CERO. But NCL is gradually lowering barriers to entry for Japanese developers too - something which happened just in time for Bitsummit this year.
That would be nice.
Xbox One also does a great job in terms of making sure there's only one SKU for games across all regions, from what I gather.
I'm more interested in finding out whether it's region free for digital content. Currently the best model seems to be iOS, which doesn't tie your Apple ID to every service on the device.
Instead you can sign out of the App Store, retain your primary Apple ID for iMessage, iCloud, Game Center etc., but sign into the App Store using a different Apple ID from a different region, purchase and download content from iBooks, Music, App Store, then sign back into your primary account and have no restrictions on how you use that content. You can also change the country your primary account is associated with, if you can prove it with a billing address.
Given the way games are distributed nowadays you're going to miss out much more on Japan-only digital titles than physical games. But on the other hand, Nintendo is the most forward thinking out of the big three in terms of making it as easy as possible to publish games worldwide: the eShop supports the IARC ratings system, which lets developers generate a bunch of worldwide ratings for a digital game free of charge. But currently it doesn't support Japan's CERO. But NCL is gradually lowering barriers to entry for Japanese developers too - something which happened just in time for Bitsummit this year.
That would be nice.
Xbox One also does a great job in terms of making sure there's only one SKU for games across all regions, from what I gather.
Muahahahahaha
FantasticMrSnake
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What's the benefits of the region lock? (I mean why the 3ds was region locked when the ds wasn't)
I've never seen (or even heard of) a region locked devkit
That being said I'd be surprised if NX is region locked.
In the case of Nintendo, it means NoE gets the sales for all European software. NoA for North America and NCL for Japan.
That being said I'd be surprised if NX is region locked.
In the case of Nintendo, it means NoE gets the sales for all European software. NoA for North America and NCL for Japan.
Earthpainting
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Whether it's true or not, I'm posting in this thread to show my support of the idea. Region free software is always welcome, especially on handhelds. When you travel, you want to be able to buy games.
HawthorneKitty
Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
Can it cook a piece of meat yet?
SinCityAssassin
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Maybe all those stability updates have led to this final outcome.
I think.this is a decent possibility. You could still play other region software at least, then.
I think that NoE has improved a lot and we got better treatment than NoA did for both 3DS and Wii U, honestly.
And in any case, the most important thing people don't realize is that localization should be our main concern, not region free.
What is the advantage of gtting DQ Monster Joker 3 if it is in Japanese?
btw, I'm not THAT sure that the dev kits being region free means something meaningfull in terms of final product. She should have worded it better, imho, because I'm pretty sure that the "final product" part is just her wishful thinking, not actual insider rumor
Zombie James
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"Might" isn't good enough. It NEEDS to be region free.
At least title the thread "Emily Rogers: NX dev kits are region free", OP. At least that's something that not every single person in the world would be capable of saying with confidence. That gives it a (n extremely minuscule) bit more discussion weight than a baseless assertion about what might be true.
Japanmanx3
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Can't really be to emotionally invested until I start hearing something from the horse's mouth...Emily Rogers just ain't no CBOAT to me...
I want to believe but I'd love comments from someone who has experience with dev kits regarding them being region free or not usually and the correlation with commercial units being region free or not.
Part of the awesomeness of the DS was it being region free. Bring that back Nintendo.
Part of the awesomeness of the DS was it being region free. Bring that back Nintendo.
Akhe
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YianGaruga
Banned
That's not at all better but I think you just don't want to understand lol
It's okay though. Don't want to backseat mod too!
Okay, so, this is a personal and somewhat complex web of nonsense involving a highly unstable individual I was friends and briefly FWBs with, but I can only assume there will be a never-ending clusterfuck on gaf now until the end of time, which inevitably involves you guys and gals on the mod team in some way, so I'm an open book here. The woman in question ended up being completely psychotic and held a grudge against me after a bizarre love triangle situation developed a few years ago between me, her, and another girl (the other girl I ended up in a long-term relationship with shortly thereafter). This NOLA story she apparently just put up on social media is a delusion of a deeply disturbed person who had a total psychological breakdown as a result of me and the other girl getting together, because she (phew, yeah...) became obsessively infatuated with the other girl (she's bi) on sight when the three of us met up. I wanted to just stay friends with the girl making the accusation and made it super super clear ahead of time that me and the other girl were interested in each other romantically and that could play out as such when we met up. Supposedly this was not a problem for her from accusation, but in reality she uhhh wanted me to die painfully after seeing me and the other girl interact. Plus she became infatuated with the other girl simultaneously to this (she's bi), which created the aforementioned bizarre love triangle that ended up causing her to implode and have an apparently very intense and long-lasting grudge. The whole story about how that love triangle thing played out is, frankly, nuts and scary, and involves this girl bringing us to a compound of dangerous scientology spinoff cultists on that same trip, who roofied us, attempted to recruit/scam me and attempted to abduct/rape the girl I ended up dating, in what was a fucking scary situation that resulted in me and the other girl and the rest of my friend circle never speaking to this girl from the accusation again.
Having region locked retail consoles means different firmware and probably different build for the games, so the devkits should at least have slightly different SDK for every region? I don't know if this works like this, but maybe the implication is that now you don't have that?
udivision, did you mean just in general like the below posts or did you mean just for NX? I'm guessing you meant the former....
...in which case, anybody got a source?
Roto Prime
Banned
This is good news.
Can't change it now. I put the full quote in the OT anyway.
Yeah. Whilst Dev kits wouldn't be region locked they would need to be able to compile different regions or whatever unless I massively misunderstand how development works.