“On November 20th, the 11 goods I designed for use with the 3DS will go on sale simultaneously. Those of you buying the 3DS, please buy them while you’re at it! This will be officially announced on the homepage eventually, lol. Best regards.”
Above is a Twitter of an employee of Keys Factory, he was hinting about 3DS Release date, which is in 2 months in Japan. We don't know if it's genuine or not (the twitter is), but for sure that the tweet has already been deleted. So no points to find the real tweet. Keys Factory was known as DS/Wii/PSP accessories, and worked with Nintendo to create the Human Tetris Style game.
*Goes to find which Hong Kong website will ship to me first*
On the sidenote, I believe Miyamoto is buying an island nation to keep his extra houses and robotic replacement bodies. He will name it Mariostonia, and its currency will cripple the American dollar.
This post has been edited by ignance, Mon, September 13th, 2010 at 05:17
If i had to guess i'd say 3DS software certainly will be region locked but lets hope otherwise. People forget that DSi software is already region locked. Well that's only if running in DSi mode.
We're lucky we can still run out of region DSi enhanced games on phats and lites, as you know those models wont detect the region lock in DS mode.
ZombiePuppy on Mon, September 13th, 2010 at 11:43[»]
I really don't understand region locking. What's the point? Region free means you get to sell more crap all around the world.
Found this:
1) The original purpose for region locking was to limit the damage a single pirate can do with a single copy of the game. Without region-locking, one guy with one copy of the game can supply all the illegal copies of the game wanted in the entire world. With cartdidge-based systems, this isn't really a problem, because copying a cartridge requires another cartridge, and they are expensive. Copying a CD/DVD is dirt-cheap, though.
2) Secondarily, another purpose arose. Region locks also help enforce the publishing/distribution agreements where one company published a game in one region and another publishes in another region. Without region locks, whichever region publishes second will already have a flood of copies of the game that were imported by the people who were most interested in that game, making publishing the game in other territories less attractive. So it puts more pressure on the idea of one company publishing the game across the entire world. This hurts smaller publishers like Atlus, who tends to publish quirky, very Japanese flavored, games in North America and Europe.
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ZombiePuppy on Mon, September 13th, 2010 at 10:53[»]Will it be region-free?
No. But it will have a feature that is very interesting, and that is that you'll be able to copy the data from the game cartridges to at least one 3DS, so that you won't need to carry all games around anymore (one of the more minor reasons of piracy).
Let's hope I can gather enough money to be able to buy it on launch day.