Why Not Make All Games Consoles Region Free

[samthegreat68]

in the Medal of Honor games you play an American in WWII killing either Germans or Japanese soliders.

i dont think that would go well over there. likewise a japanese game where you control a kamakaze pilot bombing pearl harbor in the USA.

i wouldnt mind it, but who knows?

[weirdelf]

isnt ps3 gonna be region free

[bah]

i dont think that would go well over there. likewise a japanese game where you control a kamakaze pilot bombing pearl harbor in the USA.

chinpokomon the game
You must bomb the harbour........
Bomb the harbour and you will have a happy feelings....

[Pico]

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.

Different Power Supply regulations. The same could havee been said about other handheld's. Also there's a little matter of where companys are based and why there based there.

chinpokomon the game
You must bomb the harbour........
Bomb the harbour and you will have a happy feelings....

Thirst for blood was better.

[GobboFett]

I also couldn't agree more, REGION FREE DAMMIT! Just recalling the drudgery of playing my PAL copy of Final Fantasy X ALL THE WAY THROUGH then seeing the NTSC, non-letterboxed 60Hz equivalent...SO MUCH BETTER Made me want to throw my PAL PS2 out the window and commit ritualistic harikiri.

[NeoXCS]

The gore was untouched in the german version, but they removed the mercenary-style bonus-games.
Gore isn't such a problem in Germany anymore, as long as it's not unnecessary.
The mercenary-bonusgames of some Resident Evil-titles are 'mindless' killing of people, so they have been removed.

I heard about the mercenaries being removed. I swore I read that the thing where Leon's head gets cut off by the chainsaw man (Dr. Salvador) doesnt show the actually removal of the head up close and bloody like it does in the US release. Oh and I just found the Wikipedia that has the info on that.

Via Wikipedia
In terms of violent content, all the PAL versions are identical to the North American version. This is with exception to the German version of the game, which has less graphic animations for various ways that Leon dies (ie. Garrador, Chainsaw), explosions of enemy heads are almost unseen, violent cutscenes have been edited, and Assignment Ada and Mercenaries mini-games are left out. Since all PAL versions include multiple localizations, the game sold in the Netherlands is 100% identical to the UK version. Only the language of the manual is different in each country. The Swiss and Austrian version, however has all the original violence of the normal game and also includes the two mini-games that were removed from the German version while shipping with a German booklet.

Sorry for the huge post but this is a good reason I suppose they wouldnt do region free, but I still think region free is a good idea.

[Accordion]

would be nice...
but then publishers wouldnt get those wonderful european markup profits for selling games at nearly double the price in the uk
GBA games for nearly $60 is great for them.
Some 360 games equal about $100 in the UK, i doubt any company would like to lose that markup...

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i want Region free !!

[quzar]

they wont have to make seperate disks^^

They already make seperate discs anyways for standard and special editions, aside from the fact that it isn't any more costly to make 40k of one disc and 40k of another. The boxart and instructions need to be seperate anyways, so the disc might as well be. Oh, not to mention the disc's art.

idk what it matters. yeah sure it would becool to buya jap game but would retailers sell them cause if they wouldnt then i wouldnt want to import them. and paya rediculos shipping fee.

This is one of the reasons they don't want to have games region free. If they were people could import and export the games an undermine the company's pricing scheme. In the UK they could take advantage of the huge currency difference and buy games from the US for 25-35% off

By making them region free they dont have to worrie about different asemblie lines

They don't anyways. It is no more different to the giant machine that makes the different part if there are 2 sets of 50000 units or just 1 set of 100000. You feed the machine the different datasets for the discs, the different disc and box arts you want, and it spits out a finished product.

[jwilds73]

Some people here need to realize this isn't about marketing games in other regions simply about making the consoles able to play games from any region without having to resort to a mod chip to accomplish that. So German GTA will still be sold in Germany but atleast if you were a US soldier stationed in Germany you would know you could go to the local game store and purchase any game there and know it would work on your system you brought with you from the states. Sure this wouldn't work for all games unless you read and write the language your purchasing games in. Atleast though many platformer and fighting games could be enjoyed without the need to read or understand what was said.