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Topic: What will U do if Nintendo NX is region-locked?

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Pigeon

skywake wrote:

@Pigeon
I'm just saying that importing is the most expensive way to get a game in the first place. And it can be quite a bit more expensive if you're shipping from the other side of the world. The only hope you have is that you can recoup your costs if/when you resell. The issue then is that you're hoping that the changes in exchange rate play in your favour and the value of the game remains solid. Or at least that these things don't go against you so much that you're losing money on the sale.

No, as I have already stated, postage to Japan is cheap most of the time (sometimes even free depending on the ebay seller i.e. xbiteworld) and there's also 20% off due to no tax with Amazon and some other places. I save a TONNE by buying physical imports. I save more money having games sent to Japan - I get games even cheaper than if I buy in the native country sometimes. I don't know how to explain this any clearer.

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Andrzej777

Region lock doesnt matter to me, its better if it isnt, but if it is, well, I will buy it anyway, if its good that is.

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Luna_110

I'll keep playing as I have for the past 16 years. I had japanese games for the PS1 and they were a pain since I didn't understand anything, so I really don't care about importing Japan only games.
Honestly, I think internet blows the amount of people that actually import games way up.

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Pigeon

Luna_110 wrote:

Honestly, I think internet blows the amount of people that actually import games way up.

Ninty region locked current gen devices because they found that in previous generations people were importing copies of games that were getting released in territories months earlier than others.

The Gamecube is a good example: Europeans had to wait years for Animal Crossing. In the end, a number of people (me included) ended up importing Australian copies of it. Several other games, like F-Zero GX, Kirby Air Ride, etc, took several months if not over a year to come to Europe after Japan and even the USA. If I recall correctly, Nintendo actively began suing or penalising European private retailers who attempted to sell import Nintendo games.

Pokemon was apparently hugely popular on the import market (as far back as the previous Gameboy iterations) and was a huge influence on the current region locking trend.

Ultimately, if Nintendo didn't think importing wasn't a common practice, then they wouldn't feel the need to insert region locking into their devices.

Personally, it's a big thing for me considering all this ridiculous censorship going on in games like Project Zero and Xenoblade Somethingrather.

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SuperPaperLuigi

Import retrospectively, when the hardware costs drop. Just have to put playing the unreleased stuff off to a later date. Although, these days it's more or less all available via download.

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