RUMOR: Microsoft might remove region lock from digital Xbox 360 games

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Mr Puggsly on 14 February 2016

MoHasanie said:
What's the point? They should've done that years ago.

Because better late than never?

I say that as someone that recently purchased Yakuza 5 on PS3 well into the 8th gen.

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Mr Puggsly on 14 February 2016

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Wright said:

I'm guessing that would need some kind of modification on the hardware, which at this point wouldn't be worth for them.

not really

Well if it can be done, perhaps a an update will address that.

Backwards compatibility on X1 doesn't have region lock. But that seems to be more valuable to X1 owners outside the US. Because I can't think of any European or Japanese 360 games I want.

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Wright on 14 February 2016

Mr Puggsly said:

Because I can't think of any European or Japanese 360 games I want.

Bruh.

Check the tagged game.

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jason1637 on 14 February 2016

Way too late.

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Mr Puggsly on 14 February 2016

Wright said:

Mr Puggsly said:

Because I can't think of any European or Japanese 360 games I want.

Bruh.

Check the tagged game.

I saw a video for that... not my style.

There might be interesting stuff that only came to Japan but many of them are likely impossible to play without being able to read the language.

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