IamAwsome on 02 September 2014
| Tachikoma said: For the record, the regional lockout isn't a hardware flag, it's a switched option in the firmware, they could remove region lockout on the current 3DS if they wanted to, but they don't, chances of them doing so for the new 3ds and not the current 3ds = slim to none. Hardware itself just tells the software that region it is - it's down to the firmware what it wants to do with that information. |
IIRC there was a softmod on Wii that removed region locking. You are right, they wouldn't release a new handheld to just do that.
