Why is Ninty so anal about the regional thing? None of their consoles have been region free have they?
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Why is Ninty so anal about the regional thing? None of their consoles have been region free have they?
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I do believe the Gameboys and the original DS/Lite (no idea about DSI onwards) were region free.Originally Posted by FlavaFlave
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I just browsed your report card Dan - you sure have a lot of F's on your games
Not to mention, you have an assload of games on there too - most look to be digital PS Plus games, but damn
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The PSP was "shit" until he could emulate it.Yeah, sounds more like someone is just butt hurt they can't afford the Vita and is totally grasping for straws on why it's a "bad" system.
And just my two cents, but I doubt the Vita will ever truly be hacked. Besides, I don't want it hacked anyway, I just want cheaper memory cards
And yeah Sony has locked this down tighter than a nun's pants. They are being proactive about it.
Yeaaaaaaah this was sorely needed.You can indeed only game share with one person now.
I understand region locking from Japan's perspective. THE SPECTRE OF REVERSE IMPORTATION GARE.Wanna play games from other regions?
And even the DC required a little cracking, you couldn't just straight copy games like the Sega CD iirc. I mean it still became really easy and an everyone and their grandma is pirating console but still it wasn't deliberately open.Well, you've answered your own question there, but that's still not really DRM. Publishers abandoned the PSP en masse due to how easy piracy was. Sony are already having enough trouble getting them to release games on the Vita, no way in hell any of them would touch the console with a bargepole if it wasn't locked down to some degree. That's just common sense. You can't play copies on any other modern console out of the box either. Except for the early Dreamcast consoles of course, which wasn't intentional and again resulted in most third party publishers jumping ship after the first year. Even so, casual piracy was a hell of lot harder 15 years ago than it is now. CD burners were still expensive and it was a nightmare trying to download anything that size on dialup internet. That alone made it more trouble than it was worth for most people.
Memory cards being linked to your account because of digital purchases is unavoidable nowadays - other modern consoles do the same thing (underneath the surface they're actually locked down even tighter) but you don't notice because you're not taking the hard drive out.
Bottom line is there's no region lock on the console and nothing preventing you from buying physical games and treating it like a DS, PS2 or any other console if that's how you wish to use it. The only way you're restricted is in regard to digital games, which you've said many a time you have no interest in anyway, so it's a moot point.
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Yeah, Nintendo handhelds never really had region locks before now. I'd wager it's mainly to stop the Japanese from importing games rather than the other way around, though. Games are so expensive in Japan it's insane.
EDIT: Beaten by Gypsy, but yeah.
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THE SPECTRE OF REVERSE IMPORTATION.
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100% what it is. Anime Bluray is a HUGE POINT of contention. I won't bore you guys with any of the details but it's very ugly.
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So as I was playing some more Growlanser III last night I was thinking how much of this game would be DLC now and it frightened me.
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I didn't think they liked our "western" games.
But since we're talking about Nintendo here, there won't be any real language barriers with 99% of their games since pretty much everything on their systems that would appeal to the Japanese market could be played by any 5 year old across the world.
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What I mean is Japanese gamers buying the US version of a Japanese game because it's cheaper.I didn't think they liked our "western" games.
But since we're talking about Nintendo here, there won't be any real language barriers with 99% of their games since pretty much everything on their systems that would appeal to the Japanese market could be played by any 5 year old across the world.
Oh and everyone likes western games, the market speaks for itself.
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I don't think they like CoD or any of it's shooter brethren, do they?
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Probably not, but I doubt those devs care with all the money they make.
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