Post by: Artimus on September 18, 2006, 11:49:53 AM
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The official story: Getting answers from Nintendo proved difficult during one of the company’s busiest days of the year. However, after a lengthy exchange of cryptic e-mails, a rep finally confirmed that Kaplan’s words regarding regionless first-party titles and potentially regionless third-party titles were indeed correct: “[The] Wii will be region-free.”
http://www.gamespot.com/news/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=24981977
NOA has now backed off of that statement. And a thousand geeks suddenly cried out in unison, and were silenced.
-- Rick
Post by: Ian Sane on September 18, 2006, 12:03:01 PM
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Post by: GoldenPhoenix on September 18, 2006, 12:06:15 PM
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Originally posted by: JonLeung
Funny, I JUST read a thing on GoNintendo that said it was region-encoded again. >_<
For now I'm taking the word of the VP of marketing over Gonintendo and any so called "official" statement. I have no doubt that even gamespot has mroe connections than Gonintendo
Post by: JonLeung on September 18, 2006, 12:30:12 PM
If it's region-free, hooray. I'm assuming you guys expect to import some games.
If it's region-locked, I'm sure that with the Wii being as popular as it is (or rather, as popular as it sounds like it likely will be) that soon enough someone will find a way to bypass such protection via mod chips or otherwise. If you don't mind voiding your warranty or whatever, that is.
The last time I played import games was in the last days of the Super NES. That was an easy fix - just taking the pliers and snapping off the tabs in the cartridge slot. If only they were still that easy.
Post by: wandering on September 18, 2006, 12:37:45 PM
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I have no doubt that even gamespot has mroe connections than Gonintendo
Minor point, but the news comes from Wired, not gamespot. Less minor point: Gonintendo's story is the latest official word (by about four days). So I'm going to assume that games will be region-locked until someone else says otherwise.
Post by: Viewtiful mario on September 18, 2006, 01:21:17 PM
Man that sounded sexual.
Post by: Infernal Monkey on September 18, 2006, 01:37:20 PM
Region locking would just mean publishers would have an excuse to delay games again in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. "YEAH BUT YOU GUYS HAVE TO WAIT FOR THE PAL VERSION SO YOU CAN PLAY IN GERMAN OKAY". And by wait I mean they just flat out cancel the game anyway because that seems to be the popular thing to do with DS, GC and GBA.
Post by: WuTangTurtle on September 18, 2006, 03:19:04 PM
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Post by: Donutt007 on September 19, 2006, 10:32:39 AM
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Post by: KDR_11k on September 19, 2006, 11:42:25 AM
Donut: Pretty much what I'm thinking. Bu then again NoA sounded like the games set the region option, not the console so how would NoE prevent american region free games from playing on a european Wii?
Post by: thejeek on September 20, 2006, 01:04:40 AM
Post by: Cap on September 20, 2006, 03:05:40 AM
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3153746
Post by: thejeek on September 20, 2006, 03:21:38 AM
- the Wii is region coded, in that each Wii sold is internally marked with it's region and games running on the Wii can detect this region
- game media can be marked with a region on manufacture
- the Wii does not check and enforce these region codings
- games have the option of checking the region version of their media and the Wii they're running on and refusing to run if the developer/publisher choose to do so
Post by: KDR_11k on September 20, 2006, 05:31:12 AM
Post by: thejeek on September 20, 2006, 05:44:51 AM
Post by: KDR_11k on September 20, 2006, 08:22:30 AM
