manuel said:
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Uhm, they have to built in region locking. It's not like it's always there and they unlock it. So they spend time and money on implementing it. Why? Because laws restrict them. Games are not just rated differently but could also be censored or banned. You are an adult, fine. A whole lot of Nintendo's customers are not (but you don't care, right? It's all about you! :P). Nintendo is doing this to be safe from further law shit that has happened during the last decade and will become more and more because companies and even states and unions love how easily they can get money out of it. Some kid is playing a Japanese banned game in Europe? Oh, let him pay tax first, take away that game and sue Nintendo around $1m or ban their products for a while because they used a simple technology that some moron was able to patent in some weird country - it's that easy. Sony's consoles may be region free but all the DLCs are not. You have to circumvent it and they are ok with everyone having tons of different profiles on their consoles just for purchases. They do the same thing, just with digital content. And Sony still is bigger than Nintendo on a whole.
As for the other issue: Nintendo's network has always been bad. They have nice ideas but lack tech and sub-companies (just look at Sony and Microsoft, what they actually are). Nintendo is not thinking global, that's what they do wrong and it might become what makes them go down. Not bankrupt, but less important and unknown, like my favourite speaker producer.
