From Wikipedia: According to Joel Johnson of Wired News, Nintendo of America's Vice President of Marketing & Corporate Affairs Perrin Kaplan stated at the September 14 press event in New York that Wii will be able to play games from other regions unrestricted, and implied that there may be an option for publishers to enable regional lockouts.[19] According to later report by IGN, Nintendo UK General Manager David Yarnton confirmed at the September 14 press event in London that Wii games and online content will be region-coded, seemingly contradicting the earlier statements by Kaplan.[20]
It is yet to be clarified exactly by Nintendo if every Wii will be region coded everywhere or just Europe. This would mean the US and Japan being under the same region code and European games being seperate.
Do you like to pay for a New console in japan....I for one don't want to buy a import wii or get a modchip for it. I want to BE ABLE to buy a import game WITHOUT having to buying the damn import console.Nintendo and sony hyped their stuff TOO much are out of touch with ppl.Sony wins the console wars by why.....Having a features the OTHERS can't touch.Remember DC's Death,Sony said sony feature and killed the DC.
nintendo looked at PS3's Region free feature and said "maybe.....nah....we won't do that." and didn't follow the region-free way.Nintendo JUST lost their chance and blew it,but they'll have the 2nd spot tho. , Sony WILL still be first. *Sighs*Will their EVER be a person/System THAT can ACTUALLY beat sony without screwing features up that CAN win them the console wars..... >.>
Wii not even remotely region-free
Sep 16th 2006 9:04PM (Joystiq)From Wikipedia:
According to Joel Johnson of Wired News, Nintendo of America's Vice President of Marketing & Corporate Affairs Perrin Kaplan stated at the September 14 press event in New York that Wii will be able to play games from other regions unrestricted, and implied that there may be an option for publishers to enable regional lockouts.[19] According to later report by IGN, Nintendo UK General Manager David Yarnton confirmed at the September 14 press event in London that Wii games and online content will be region-coded, seemingly contradicting the earlier statements by Kaplan.[20]
It is yet to be clarified exactly by Nintendo if every Wii will be region coded everywhere or just Europe. This would mean the US and Japan being under the same region code and European games being seperate.
Wii to be region-locked after all?
Sep 16th 2006 9:36AM (Engadget)Wii to be region-locked after all?
Sep 16th 2006 8:48AM (Engadget)