Wii Region Locked After All?

September 15th, 2006 Posted in Business, Wii

worldYesterday Nintendo’s Perrin Kaplan said the Wii will be region free, at least the 1st party games, and that 3rd party developers had the chance to turn it on. Now Nintendo UK is saying Kaplan made a mistake. Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz after the European event, a Nintendo representative said “We are region-locked”, but didn’t mention anything about first party games.
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5 Responses to “Wii Region Locked After All?”

  1. Emerald Says:

    September 15th, 2006 at 11:05 pm

    What she said is that the Wii itself is region-locked, not the First-Party games(As Perrin Kaplan said).



  2. Hue Jazz Says:

    September 15th, 2006 at 11:41 pm

    Wii suck



  3. Emerald Says:

    September 16th, 2006 at 1:27 am

    “# Hue Jazz Says:
    September 15th, 2006 at 11:41 pm

    PS3 suck”



  4. Primo Gaming Says:

    September 16th, 2006 at 1:49 am

    [...] This is a fairly good deal for $250 – they even include the batteries. It’s a shame that games won’t be region free, it’ll lack DVD playback, and the web browser is not free. Then again, I won’t be online with it most of the time, so I can’t take full advantage of the free online service. [...]



  5. Shaka Says:

    September 18th, 2006 at 1:11 am

    If this means it will make more profit for nintendo then i bet they will do this.



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