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iasta on 30 March 2011

Eurogamers on their 3DS review stated the same, their Japanese game didn't work on their european 3DS.

i want to say f*** you Nintendo, why they have lock the  games as  the other features (street pass, friend codes...) are not region lock!



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Alby_da_Wolf on 30 March 2011
Zlejedi said:
Alby_da_Wolf said:

Reviewers should subtract 10/100 from scores for region locked portable titles and 5/100 for home console titles. It's an unjustifiable crippling, totally unuseful, and, worse, damaging for the users, particularly for those of portables.


And damage their relationships with nice corporate people holding the keys to those huge marketing budgets?

Surely you jest? ;)

Oh snap, silly me...   



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manuel on 30 March 2011
iasta said:

i want to say f*** you Nintendo, why they have lock the  games as  the other features (street pass, friend codes...) are not region lock!


I second that wholeheartedly.

Region locking made a huge dent in my love for Nintendo.



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iasta on 30 March 2011
manuel said:
iasta said:

i want to say f*** you Nintendo, why they have lock the  games as  the other features (street pass, friend codes...) are not region lock!


I second that wholeheartedly.

Region locking made a huge dent in my love for Nintendo.

It won't prevent me to get mu 3DS at the end of the week. But i am unhappy about that matter, because here (China) i'll take a US one. Just later if go back to europe, i will have to import my game from US. Not as convinient as by the games directly to the store.

Or maybe US and Eur games are exchangable if you might consider japanese games didn't work because the japanese character fonts that are not on US or European 3DS, but honestly i don't hope that anymore.



But we must first concentrate ourselves on the way to entertain people, for video games to live. Else, it's a world where sales representative will win, which has as effect to kill creativity. I want to say to the creators all around the world:"Courage, Dare!". Shigeru Miyamoto.

MrT-Tar on 31 March 2011

I would be pro-region locking if all games were released in all regions.  But I know that will never happen, so I'm against region locking.  I'm disapointed that I can import games from the US to  play on my UK 3DS, especially if they aren't released here.  

For example, I'm seriously considering importing DQVI DS as no UK release date has yet been given by NoE.  What makes it even stranger is considering that DQIX sold 260k more in EMEAA than in NA, where DQVI has been launched.  Equally, chances are I won't be able to play the 3DS SMT DS remake, so I'll have to settle for the DS original.  Damn, region locking




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Alby_da_Wolf on 31 March 2011
MrT-Tar said:

I would be pro-region locking if all games were released in all regions.  But I know that will never happen, so I'm against region locking.  I'm disapointed that I can import games from the US to  play on my UK 3DS, especially if they aren't released here.  

For example, I'm seriously considering importing DQVI DS as no UK release date has yet been given by NoE.  What makes it even stranger is considering that DQIX sold 260k more in EMEAA than in NA, where DQVI has been launched.  Equally, chances are I won't be able to play the 3DS SMT DS remake, so I'll have to settle for the DS original.  Damn, region locking

I'd be against it anyway. Heck, megacorps want to enjoy every benefit they can get from globalization, but they want to prevent users from doing the same.



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Xen on 31 March 2011

It's just a matter of time until the locks are eroded by softmods, I'm not too worried.