In the EU the issue of region restriction has been raised and they have tried to stop it but the legislation was never passed or not fully implemented. There were also some products allowed that bypassed region restrictions that console manufacturer's failed to ban. I think its fair to say the EU is not for region restrictions.
There is an arrogance to Nintendo sometimes but the same is true of most console manufacturers. On the positive side Nintendo has never tried to stop the secondhand trading of games unlike Microsoft. At the current time I think Sony are most in tune with consumers.








