Wii to be Region Free · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday September 14, 2006 @06:45AM from the wiiiiii dept.

Chris Kohler is making it a point to single out the fact that, like its cousin the DS, the Wii is to be Region-free. They also discuss how Virtual Console titles will associated with a console owner, and some details on the Opera browser. From the article: "Like the Nintendo DS, the Wii will be able to play games from other regions, such as Japan, without any restriction. Kaplan implied there might be a region lock that publishers would be able to flip on, but it doesn't sound like the first-party titles from Nintendo will be restricted."

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Re:aside from hurting your own sales... by DrEldarion · 2006-09-14 09:03 · Score: 4, Interesting

Not so common anymore.

In addition, the most legitimate defense of mod chips was always "I GOT IT TO PLAY IMPORTED GAMES!" Take that away, and modding your console just got that much shadier.