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Nintendo to Consider Ending Region Locking

3rd November, 0 replies

Nintendo, Satoru Iwata
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Nintendo President Satoru Iwata has signalled that the company will re-consider its approach to region locking. During a Q&A session with investors Iwata is quoted as saying the following with regards to region locking:

"The game business has a history of taking a very long time with localization among other things, such as having to deal with various issues of marketing in each particular country, or games that have made use of licensed content that did not apply globally, and had all kinds of circumstances, so to say, that region-locking has existed due to circumstances on the sellers' side rather than for the sake of the customers. In the history of game consoles, that is the current situation."

He went on to say:

"As for what should be done going forward, if unlocked for the benefit of the customers, there may also be a benefit for us. Conversely, unlocking would require various problems to be solved, so while I can't say today whether or not we intend to unlock, we realize that it is one thing that we must consider looking to the future."

Although far from a confirmation that the firm intends to remove region locks, Iwata's statement will no doubt be welcomed as a step in the right direction by Nintendo fans in the West.

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