Teeqoz said:
| HylianSwordsman said:
Again, what is his reasoning then? Just random acts of stupidity and/or evil? Clearly they took a risk with the DS, thought they could do even better financially with region locking the 3DS, and now they see the difference and are considering going back. This is an investor Q&A, after all. It's all about the financial motivations. Saying that he's lying about region locking for financial reasons in an investor meeting is pointless. It's not crap, you just don't like region locking. But then you don't like Nintendo either, so it's not like you really care, you just want an excuse to call Nintendo evil/stupid. It doesn't matter why they didn't care with the DS, what matters is that they decided they did care, and between it being financially motivated to benefit the seller, the obvious reason for all region locking (unless you think it benefits the buyer?), and being a random act with no reasoning behind it, I'm inclined to believe it's financially motivated to benefit the seller, because that makes more sense than acting randomly. It's a basic principle of economics, that people and corporations do what they think is in their best interest at the time. So saying that because they made one decision at one time and a different decision later means the later decision is crap is illogical. The simpler, more logical conclusion is that they changed their minds about that policy based on new reasoning about what would be in their best interest. Now they gave their reasons for it, and I really don't know what more you want from them. I wish it wasn't region locked either, but that doesn't mean I'm going to claim they're lying about their reasons for region locking when they fully admit the financial motivations behind the decision.
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From where do you base your claim that I don't like Nintendo? Do you think I have anything against them? Based on what?
Of course they took a risk with the 3DS making it region-locked, and yes it was a stupid decision. Both the DS and the GBA were region free. So was the PSP (except for the PSP's UMDs, but the games were region free.) and then they got a bad idea about region-locking possibly making them money.
The first four and a half lines of the answer are pure bullshit. The only thing that isn't is that it's for the sellers sake and not the customer. And ofcourse you choose to look at the only thing that isn't crap instead of the statement as a whole, which is crap.
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Like most people who say something is a stupid decision, it's stupid because you don't like it. I know that's your reasoning because you don't even explain why it's stupid beyond "X and Y is region free" and "I don't like the reasons they gave."
Pretty much every system has a form of region lock on it, whether they leave it up to the publisher, put it on the hardware, or put it on the software. The motivation for keeping more strict forms of region lock have a lot to do with how people work around it and how some people abuse the system. Region lock sounds like a dumb idea until you find out that there are actual legal reasons why it's put into place. Nintendo doesn't WANT to region lock systems for the sake of region locking them. Like every other company, Nintendo is interested in making profits. Given what happened with the DS with flashcarts, I imagine that has a good bit to do with their reversion to their strict region lock.
