Gamers start campaign to end Wii U/3DS region locking.

[Katsumi San]

I support the petition, but this is something that Nintendo will stick to in the end. I simply cannot see Nintendo abandoning the idea of region locking.

I agree with this.

I know that region lock = "controlled market" so each region has fair chance to make money. And that is okay for them. I think Nintendo is scared that once no more region lock.. they are make no money.. this is not true.. look at Sony and Microsoft consoles.. region free and publishers still make many money. Nintendo thinks once consoles are region free.. everyone will import and no make money. Most people are still buy their own region game because they are know it will come. Though there is obvious titles that will not and people will import that.

 

[signz]

I doubt that's gonna change anything... Might still be worth a try tho.

 

[ytzone]

Hell yes. I want my Taiko no Tatsujin and Senran Kagura.

 

[Bladexdsl]

I agree with this.

I think Nintendo is scared that once no more region lock.. they are make no money.. this is not true.. look at Sony and Microsoft consoles.. region free and publishers still make many money.

ninty doesn't have as good 3rd party support though so they can't really take the risk.

 

[Osha]

If 100,000 couldn't bring Mega Man Legends 3 back, I somewhat doubt that 10,000 is going to end region lock on two systems. I signed it, but I still have that doubt.

To be fair, Capcom is on a vendetta against Mega Man. Well, was, until recently apparently.

 

[emigre]

ninty doesn't have as good 3rd party support though so they can't really take the risk.

Yeah because region free consoles are amazingly risky.

 

[FAST6191]

Yeah because region free consoles are amazingly risky.

You of all people should know how certain people do not like to give up their little sliver of control, especially if they have duped themselves into thinking it is a good thing for their wallets or similar.

I forgot to mention last time it is also a somewhat interesting subject inside Japan as well, I do not have nearly enough cultural, Japanese legal and Japanese business knowledge, to say nothing of the historical precedents for such a move, to even guess how it came about or venture a worthwhile analysis beyond it is a meeting of all three of those fields that sees it happen. However having pulled apart a few games for myself and others and being a fan of shmups, platformers and puzzles to the point of trying to follow developments inside Japan I can safely say it goes deep (the amount of games I have seen with "not for distribution outside Japan" in the early screens...) and has some bizarre logic (devs say please, pubs say please, investors or lawyers say not a chance -- any and all combinations of those three are available too).

 

[Patxinco]

Signed, cross your fingers for this ^^

 

[Deleted User]

All Niuntendo home consoles were not region-free. As for the handhelds, this started with the 3DS.

"The DSi is Nintendo's first region-locked handheld"
Good try.

 

[gamefan5]

"The DSi is Nintendo's first region-locked handheld"
Good try.

And how many DSi exclusive games were released? That's why I left it out. We don't care it's region-locked cause more than 95% of DS games were region free on the DSi. As for the DS, it was 100%

 

[Deleted User]

And how many DSi exclusive games were released? That's why I left it out.

You can't leave it out, it still means region locking was on a nintendo handheld.

 

[gamefan5]

You can't leave it out, it still means region locking was on a nintendo handheld.

Never said it wasn't. But again, the impact isn't as significant as the other consoles for the same shit I said in my previous post. I'm done on the matter.

 

[Hyura]

It'd be just great for me. Living in Europe with a American 3DS sux

 

[FAST6191]

Never said it wasn't. But again, the impact isn't as significant as the other consoles for the same shit I said in my previous post. I'm done on the matter.

Unfortunately it is what is known as a slippery slope and the option to ignore them is quite detrimental to long term goals.

 

[gamefan5]

Unfortunately it is what is known as a slippery slope and the option to ignore them is quite detrimental to long term goals.

When FAST6191 starts to say I'm wrong, it's time for me to give up. XD

 

[heartgold]

Imagine if 3DS had Mii Verse, there could be easily a couple million posts coming off a 30m+ userbase.

That flood lol

The fans are already vocal as it is demanding 60mhz VC games in EU on miiverse.

 

[Metoroid0]

http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/nintendo-stop-region-blocking-make-the-3ds-and-wii-u-region-free

 

[anhminh]

Talk about letter, is there a way to send a swapnote to Nintendo?

 

[the_randomizer]

Imagine if 3DS had Mii Verse, there could be easily a couple million posts coming off a 30m+ userbase.

That flood lol

The fans are already vocal as it is demanding 60mhz VC games in EU on miiverse.

What's wrong with wanting 60 Hz VC games? Using 50 Hz in this day and age when most TVs support NTSC is pretty stupid. No one in their right mind wants a 20% speed reduction.

 

[Guild McCommunist]

implying an organized campaign ended drm on A) a Sony console which never had any to begin with and B) a Microsoft console which got severe backlash from EVERYONE "solved" DRM.

Like I hate to break it to ya but saying that a hashtag solved DRM is pretty fucking smug.

EDIT: Also what incentives does Nintendo have to remove region locking? People are still enjoying the fuck out of the 3DS (well I thought non-Japanese sales are a bit flaky but the console, as a whole, is doing okay) and the Wii U won't be selling any better because a bunch of weeaboos want to play their nonexistent Japanese Wii U games.

So yeah this campaign is probably going to go nowhere but unsuccessful.