Why Not Make All Games Consoles Region Free

[StealthCP]

Well, it is fun lording your NTSC PS2 over all your mates...

But in the long run, yeah: Region-free is definitely the way to go.

[SSaxdude]

The game companies would probably make more money if their games could be used anywhere.

[Shadowblind]

But what about Wolfenstein in Germany? Or Black in Africa? We all have to use discretion, so I went with Er I duno im a muppet

[muffinman]

Isn't the ps3 going to be region free?
Anyways yeah id like region free. i had to buy a convertor for my snes to play chrono trigger as it was never released in the uk.

[10shu]

Game develloper need time to do the translation job... Europe for exemple is quite a job with at least 4 languages.

also the parental coding thingy is different from one country to another...Blood as to be green in some country.

However I beleave they should give the choice to people...so i m for region free console.

[quzar]

The game companies would probably make more money if their games could be used anywhere.

Explain how.

[dtothabreezy]

they wont have to make seperate disks^^

[gamesquest1]

Its all about control an games companies love to have it, and in the case of xbox 360 letting some games be region free is just to torment us.

[SILen(e]

Sure, Microsoft would make more money in the US if all people from the UK would import their games from the USA, but the european department of Microsoft would lose money.
The european branches of Microsoft, Sony und Nintendo are much smaller than their american or japanese counterparts, so they would get hurt by this loss of money.

Oh, and it is allowed to show blood in games in Germany, but those games can't be bought by minors.
Additionally, imported games can only be bought by adults because they haven't been rated by the german USK (yes, even if it's The New Adventures of Mickey Mouse).

[MaxSMoke]

Um... I've bought Japanese games for the PSP and PS2, both of which work prefectly fine on my US consoles. What exactly is the game you've had problems with? As far as I know, I haven't heard of a single game that won't play anywhere. There is the NTSC vs PAL issue, but that's about it.