Fans have started a campaign to end region locking on Nintendo consoles. Following news that PlayStation 4 is region-free and Microsoft’s recent reversal on policies including region locking, a petition now asks Nintendo to follow suit and end region restrictions altogether.
We want region-free consoles so that we may exercise our consumer rights to choose what games we play.
“Following Microsoft's U-turn on its DRM policies, including making the Xbox One region-free alongside the PS4, Nintendo is now left as the only major console manufacturer that maintains a region-locking policy,” the petition says. “This practice is restrictive to customers, including those who enjoy playing foreign games not available domestically, speak foreign languages, serve in the military, or otherwise travel or live abroad. If anything, region-free policies encourage the additional sales of legitimate software that cannot otherwise be obtained in a given country; the money would still go to Nintendo, the developers and the distributors behind each game.”
The petition goes on to thank Nintendo for its efforts in shortening the gap between worldwide release dates, but notes “we don't want region-free consoles just so we can purchase and play some games earlier than usual. We want region-free consoles so that we may exercise our consumer rights to choose what games we play and to thus expand our horizons.”
“We ask that Nintendo please release system firmware updates that will remove region-locking from the Nintendo 3DS, Wii U, and Wii systems,” the petition concludes.
We’ve reached out to Nintendo about the petition and will update this story with any comment we receive.
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Source : ign[dot]com
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