Sony Europe's Exclusive Game Deals Raise Ire

An anonymous reader writes "Eurogamer has an editorial up about Sony Europe's recent practice of paying for PS2-exclusive titles from Namco, Ubisoft, Rockstar and others for European release. The author doesn't seem to mind short-term platform exclusives too much, as long as there's a PC version around at the same time, but complains loudly about Kill.Switch and I-Ninja, which were both released on other formats in the USA but are permanently exclusive to the PS2 in Europe." What do you think of hardware manufacturers locking in games to certain platforms, whether a territorial decision or a universal one?

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Re:Europeans will always circumvent restrictions

[El]

Ok, other than the fact that you would have to by a US Xbox, a power converter, and an NTSC-to-PAL converter which would degrade your picture quality just to play a US game in the EU, what's to stop you?