Can someone remind me what the defense of region locking is? Honest question.
No. The majority of the userbases for gaming devices don't know about or care about region locking.
It really is something you seldom see outside of dedicated gaming establishments.
I could be wrong but as someone with a pile of imported 360 games I'm pretty sure most physical importing is done because a game wasn't/isn't yet localized anyway. In that case, a region lock is a straight lost sale, not a "protected" local saleI thought region free games could eat into profits for companies doing localization like XSEED (Marvelous). The market is already small for Senran Kagura, if everyone who wanted it already imported it then why bother localizing?
How do Australians deal with region locking?
It seems like it would have a huge negative effect there.
Okay. Sorry, not very knowledgeable about that sort of thing. I just assumed that Australia would be lowest priority for releases, but I guess you're just getting them when they come to Europe.Uhhh, what do you mean? Banned games? We just import copies from the UK, we're all just PAL anyway. It has about the same impact on us as it does any other European country.
I'm not for region locking, but can't think of too many times it's annoyed me on 3DS. Would've liked SMTIV and Miku earlier I suppose, but no exclusive titles spring to mind. Vita on the other hand, single account acts as a pseudo lock, and that got really annoying fast.
Sometimes a Japanese game is only localized for the US and not Europe (or vice versa). Having to deal with that crap is annoying.
How do Australians deal with region locking?
It seems like it would have a huge negative effect there.
yes you do
It would be awesome if it had the concave buttons though...Watch the NA version have purple buttons.
The problem is I would want a region free eShop (as many interesting titles are eShop only, plus importing carts is time consuming and expensive) and even if homebrew does deliver that it violates the Nintendo Network terms of service.But yeah I hope the Homebrew channel still applies to this when it's out. So tired of region locks at this point.
Their last post was a link to their tweet of giving EA the finger...(didn't know the Luigi was a bootleg, thanks HUELEN10) Given how every other one of their posts was a link to a youtube video I'm guess self promotion was the reason.Isn't Tilmen banned from NeoGAF?
Unless you never linked an NNID to the 3DS in which case just go to system settings and change country to Ireland (I'd imagine the € price is cheaper than the £ price...£ price tends to be €5=£4.50...), connect to eShop and enjoy. If you have NNID though *dontforgetyourehereferver.jpg*We miss out on a bunch of games, mostly. We're in the same region as the UK for physical copies, but anything digital that doesn't make it to the Australian Eshop is just a no-go.
I'll never understand the reasoning behind this.
Even if you don't care about region locking, why would you be against having more options? Against others having more options? What a weird thing to say.
Isn't Tilmen banned from NeoGAF?
Okay. Sorry, not very knowledgeable about that sort of thing. I just assumed that Australia would be lowest priority for releases, but I guess you're just getting them when they come to Europe.
NoA better have colored buttons.
What?
Long-history that starts with DSi on portable...
And on home consoles, Sony's first attempt on region free is PS3 (which was very welcome).
Besides, Nintendo home consoles usually were far more easier to unlock than Sony's (sometimes just removing a piece of plastic from the console, or shorting a resistance).
Me neither, but I like that they hear the question as often as possible, maybe they'll think about it for the next generation...