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3DS Region Locking Makes Us a Sad Panda

Posted on Tuesday, January 11 @ 17:59:24 Eastern by Daniel Bischoff

When I used to work at Best Buy, every once in a while, you'd walk by the racks of Nintendo DS games and see an imported cartridge. It was like someone dropped a $20 on floor... except you had to pay for it.

I mean, of course half of the time it was an import cart of something kind of stupid, like a Shonen Jump fighting game...

Alright, it was something cool every time. It was nice knowing some random gem could come in the store and it would still work on your American DS.

Of course, region locking consoles means more control for platform holders and publishers. Take away freedom and you get money. That's how the Republican mind works, you see?

It should come as no surprise then that Nintendo's recent DSi and DSi XL region locking will carry through to the Nintendo 3DS. Of course, that's what a Korean website basing their story off of a call from a Japanese consumer to Nintendo Customer support is saying.

That might be pretty shaky confirmation, but I'd still take the odds and make a bet on it. $10 anyone? Seriously, if anyone is willing to bet the 3DS isn't region locked, I'll take it.

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Comments

Eyebrowsbv31
Joined: Nov 2005

Posted: Jan 11th, 2011 at 6:41 pm
Yes, curse them for doing what they want with a product they're making and paying for themselves. Curse them! Them damn republicans! And then, they'll force you to buy it, right? Damn them!

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William_Blase
Joined: Sep 2010

Posted: Jan 11th, 2011 at 10:15 pm
It makes a lot of sense to me considering the amount of piracy Nintendo is dealing with currently. Region locking though isn't going to do much but hurt sales of import software.

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TheMindlessType
Joined: Sep 2009

Posted: Jan 11th, 2011 at 10:58 pm
No one is forcing you to buy the console, I agree. But it's perfectly within our right to complain about it. We're paying for a product. They may have built it but ultimately it is us that owns the hardware (or at least it should be). While the company may want to lock it down as much as possible, if we don't voice our opinions as loudly as possible there's little incentive for them to change it - Voting with your dollars is important, but not nearly as important as being proactive with your voice before the damage is done.

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danielrbischoff
Joined: Nov 2009

Posted: Jan 12th, 2011 at 10:15 am
@Eyebrowsbv31: Yes, let's just ignore the fact that we pay money for a product and aren't allowed to do what we want with it.

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