Why are the Wii and 360 region locked?

[Xen]

RolStoppable said:

Xen said:

RolStoppable said:
The Wii isn't region free to make sure that Europeans buy PAL copies of the games, because otherwise the long time of work for the translations would be a waste.

It already is. When shall I see Final Fantasy rlesed in Europe and the US on the same date? never, I think. And differences between NTSC FF and PAL FF? nonexistent. Releases? PAL 6 months after NTSC.

The PAL FFs (at least up until FF X-2) suffered from huge black bars at the top and bottom of the screen and ran 17 % lower. Square-Enix was really lazy.

Yes, true. Any other differences? not really. Same game, same language, same bugs, lol. Releasing them with huge time diffs is pure lazyness or I don't know what.