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Locked systems in bold:

PSX, PS2, PS3, PSP, Vita

N64(?), GC, Wii, GBA, DS, 3DS

XBox, 360

 

It seems MS is always locked down, Sony's moving away from it, and Nintendo's locking down even more. That seems to fit their third party hardware policies too though.

Not sure about any recent games, but I know that Stranglehold was going to be region locked, a decision which was reversed. Additionally, PSP video disks were region locked, while games were not. Both the PSP and PS3 have the ability to region lock games, but do not. Not sure about the Vita, but I wouldn't be surprised if it does.

 

Assuming the next gen consoles either launch in the same quarter (or I don't purchase one until down the road), region locking (and the hopeful lack thereof) will definitely factor into my purchase.

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I checked the Vita before posting, and without qualification, Shihei Yoshida said "it is" region free..

 

Personally, I play foreign games very often. My favourite PSP games are imports. In fact, I probably wouldn't be kicking myself for buying a 3DS so much if it were region free - though I haven't seen much to entice on it regardless. I've also enjoyed some DS imports like the classic Ouendan games, though apart from those it's not such a huge deal to me there. I'd import for 360 if I could too, but I haven't hacked any TV-connected current-gen consoles.

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I'd assume Peteer is one of the few on this forum where region locking is really important.

Probably true! :D (And yes, it is really important.)

 

I'm pretty sure that before we moved from Japan (when I decided to sell my Japanese 360 and games), my game collection was a hodgepodge mix of Japanese, Asian and US games. Actually, If anyone wants to do the math, my 2010 game collection is here, and my 2011 game collection is here. When I took that photo in 2010, I had 25% Japanese games, less than 50% US games and a mix for the rest. The games that are missing in the 2011 image (wanted to take a photo, no time/space, game boxes are still in a yet-to-be-unpacked moving box <_<) are missing because I had to sell them or keep unplayable games. :mad:

 

With the importance of getting Japanese language games for my kids (and to help keep up my Japanese for those games that launch in Japan first/only), that's not going to become any less important in the future. (And if we move back to Japan, we'll be equally interested in buying/importing English language games in Japan.)

 

I have no clue which country my family and I'll be living in five years from now, but either way, region locking and gamertag issues like I listed here really are very important for me. (So important that even when Japan and America are in the same region [blu-ray], I bought an HD-DVD player specifically because it was the region free option of the two competing standards. No regrets, 100+ HD-DVDs and still haven't bought a Blu-ray player.)

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Oh n for anyone else who didn't notice, the new TOS waive your right to class action lawsuit (I did say more n more companies will be doing it)

 

This is why I like the European Union. Under EU law you cannot be required to give up your statutory rights for any reason... so fuck Microsoft, sue them in Europe.

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