After 20 years, I'm no longer a Nintendo fanboy and might never be again

[ameratsu]

Majin-Tenshinhan said:

darthdevidem01 said:

ameratsu said:

Soriku said:

Still, we've heard this story so many times now. But to me though I believe that most people who say stuff like this don't know much of the line up. What do you think about this?

http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=34940&page=1

 

That's a nice list, but it's misleading. It gives a good global overview of what's coming out on the Wii, but region to region the games Wii owners will actually get to play from that list will vary.

 

ditto! why the f*** didn'tninty make it region free like SONY made the PS3

I'm sick of waiting for months n months for a carbon copy of the NA version I mean in the end the UK version is just like the NA version delay it for mainland EU not for us!

But my main complaign is it not being region free &/or localisation times something which ONLY MS has toned down....but SONY is fine there as Ps3 is region free.

Nintendo may have casuals this gen but the fact remains & will always remain this gen is the only one where the leading console doesn't have the best games for te core gaming group....not me every major gaming site says this

 

Well, I'm not happy about region locks either, but are Sony really the best example? They made their hardware region free and then shut down one of the biggest import sites as a warning that they shouldn't ship their games overseas, and have since forbid anyone to ship their japanese releases outside of Asia etc.

 

Ok... are you talking about lik-sang? AFAIK, sony shut them down because they were selling ps2 modchips. Still pissed a lot of people off. Also, the PS1 and PS2 were region locked so you couldn't just import any game, as ps1/ps2s required modchips to play import games. The last part you mention isn't true (might of been true at some point) as there are many import shops that sell japanese/asian ps2/ps3 games all over the world.

some examples:

ncsx ps3

play-asia ps3

play-asia ps2

My original point remains. The "Wii games in 2009" thread is misleading as it doesn't specify confirmed regions. It's just a general overview of global wii releases, not the actual list of wii games you'll be playing this year. The context in which Soriku provided the thread to the OP was also misleading.