Nintendo, I'm mad at you. Really mad.

[Cobretti2]

manuel said:

anonymunchy said:
I would assume region locking is a consequence of the different laws in different countries.

That's what they say, yes, but the laws were also different in the days of the Gameboy and DS. I think that's all bullshit, especially since Sony consoles are still region free.

And I get that many people access the eshop and the servers, but from a big company I expect that their stuff works. My free time ist very limited and I don't want to wait it out. I want to play and use my consoles when I want and not when their servers are available.

The problem is countries that rip you off on game prices through higher wages, cost of living and import taxes. If region free means sales in local regions diminish.

Also apprently each Nintendo office marketing and publishing is self funded from the sales profits in that region. Not confirmed but when a load of Wii U games like NInja Gaiden were not being published in Australia by Nintendo the reason they gave was lack of funds. Same with why there was a lack of marketing at game conventions because they haven't been profitable for last few years. Again this was jsut what the guy told me on the helpline so who knows what level of truth there is to it.