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IsawYoshi on 03 July 2013

A petition is currently doing the rounds on the internet asking Nintendo to remove region locking from its current consoles, Wii U and Nintendo 3DS. Nintendo of America is awareof the petition and has issued a statement saying quite clearly that Nintendo has no plans to remove region locking from their systems. Nintendo says that taking this approach so the company is able to include parental controls and also ensure compliance with regional standards and rating systems. The Xbox One and PlayStation 4 are region free.

“Nintendo has no plans to remove region locking from our systems. By taking this approach, Nintendo is able to include parental controls and ensure compliance with regional standards and rating systems.”

 

http://mynintendonews.com/2013/07/03/nintendo-of-america-issues-response-on-region-locking/



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Suke on 03 July 2013

Well talk about taking a shot gun and blasting there head clean off XD



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osed125 on 03 July 2013

Doesn't affect me all. Never seen the point of importing a game from another continent, besides is waaaay too expensive in my country to import a game outside of the U.S.

I do wonder though, what's the number of people who actually import games?



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Conegamer on 03 July 2013

Doesn't surprise me. Anyone expecting a change were delusional, Im afraid.

It is a shame, though.



 

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raymond_lai on 03 July 2013

IF they have no plans to remove region lock, then I have no plans to buy their consoles anymore. I am a Chinese and a Chinese version 3ds has fucking few games! Only about 6-8 games. And many of them don’t even need translation! Mario, Mario kart…



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Suke on 03 July 2013
osed125 said:

Doesn't affect me all. Never seen the point of importing a game from another continent, besides is waaaay too expensive in my country to import a game outside of the U.S.

I do wonder though, what's the number of people who actually import games?


How I see is that that it's nice to have the option, make it more of an open device.



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KHlover on 03 July 2013

The only game I've ever felt the need to import was the US version of SSBB. So, doesn't bother me at all. I don't know Japanese.



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SaberSaurus on 03 July 2013

So annoying, c'mon Nintendo :/



   

the_dengle on 03 July 2013

Oh nooooooo

I really wanted to play all of the fantastic 3DS and Wii U games that aren't coming out in America... like... like... errrrrrr



raymond_lai on 03 July 2013

IF they have no plans to remove region lock, then I have no plans to buy their consoles anymore. I am a Chinese and a Chinese version 3ds has fucking few games! Only about 6-8 games. And many of them don’t even need translation! Mario, Mario kart…