View Poll Results: Should All Consoles be Region Free

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    General games Why Not Make All Games Consoles Region Free

    Cast your minds back to the days of the Super Nintendo and Megadrive and those days only the very hardcore imported games, but nowadays the world is much smaller thanks to the Internet and because of stores like LIK Sang and SuccessHK.

    For people like me in the UK its great to be able to go out and buy the latest USA and Japanese games and at half the price they would cost me in my home country.

    Sony and Nintendo have already made their PSP and Nintendo DS/ GBA/GB Micro handhelds region free but on the console front we have never had a region free console.

    The Xbox 360 has several games that are region free but the majority of the games are not and there really is no reason for it.

    Lets Explore reasons why they may not want Region Free

    Incompatible TV Display

    Years ago when everyone had crappy TVs this would have been a real sticking point, i even remember buying an American Snes and having to use a Commodore 64 Monitor to display the games.

    But nowadays with nearly everyone having TVs that can display both PAL and NTSC images and some lucky buggers having state of the art HD TV theres really no point in the Display issue, so thats one of the list.

    Sales In Each Territory

    The 3 main areas for game sales are Japan, USA and Europe and even though the heads of each area want to keep the sales for themselves in that area they must understand that only the hardcore and eager ever really import anyway so the majority of game sales will occur in the area its meant to be, one other beauty for Region Free is that if a game isnt to be released in a certain area but the import markets show that it would be successful then its a win win situation for the Game and console makers.

    Different Power Supplys

    Another area in which theres really no need not to have region free, the PSP with its power supply showed us we can use it to charge the console anywhere, so if they can do it for Sonys Handheld then why not for the others.

    Conclusion

    Come on Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft, if you want us gamers to really enjoy the consoles your selling to us then let us have the choice, you can do it for the Handhelds, so whats stopping you for the Consoles.

    Region free consoles will benefit the whole gaming industry, you know it makes sense.

    Do you agree or not agree, if you agree give a reply and lets show the makers of consoles that we want REGION FREE

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    what reason could you possibly have to support region specific? All systems should definately be region free.

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    I couldn't agree more

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    Region free for me too.

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    Hear hear!

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    There are many more reasons to have games not be reason free:

    ratings systems in each territory
    import/export problems
    restrictions in certain territories on games (in germany games can't show blood)
    marketing/boxart/cart-disc art/instruction books

    to give an example, if there were no region restrictions, many domestic (US) stores would carry all sorts of japanese games that are not intended for US audiences which may or may not contain dialog or depictions that would be controversial here. By placing restrictions on regions, game companies can make sure that they are not liable for anything like that. IIRC if a game is not rated by the ESRB, there is no obligation for the local seller to check ID regardless of the local laws.

    Basically having games specific to regions is done out of necessity.
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    Another thing to consider is licensing issues.

    A company may only receive a movie license, for example, for a certain region (Asian, UK, etc.).

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    Why wont they make consoles ect multi region? simple $ony,M$ ect have managed to do what Hitler,Stalin,Ceaser and every other dictator has failed to do they run the world from a central office dictating what goes were and when.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shadowblind
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    Agreed

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