PlayStation 3 Gets its First Region-Locked Game

[Mr C]

Arseholes, all this does is reduce sales. A good example is Deadly Premonition on the 360. I live in Asia and the only version I can play is the Japanese version. Guess what dipshit publishers we don't all speak Japanese on this vast fucking continent. I'm sure there are plenty of shooter (old school 2D) fans who'd love to buy ESPgaluda 2 and Dodonpatchi on the 360, but they fucking can't unless they have an NTSC-J system.

This crap drives me bonkers. Sympathies to any Persona fans who'll miss out because Atlus prefer sucking bags of dicks to earning profit.

 

[Woodsey]

Well that's pretty weak. Wonder why they'd do this.

Because as publishers consistently prove, they fucking hate money.

 

[dimensional]

Yeah its pretty crap they are doing this and it seems its all because they are afraid people in Japan will import cheap copies from America because the dollar is doing crap? at least thats what I read into it. To be honest im a bit annoyed they are region locking it especially as I live in the UK and have to wait until someone else brings the game over here usually resulting in a months delay at the best of times.

I will still get the game its my no.1 looked forward to game of the year so unless they pulled some always online crap or made me sign up to some service to play I would still get it its just I feel this is not a good move on their part but I suppose arc systems arent exactly massive and need to maximise profit especially when games in america are so cheap anyway compared to most other places worldwide.

Why do they have to region lock all copies though? why not just region lock the american copies? surely they would be better off if people imported the Japanese and EU copies because it would cost them more and therefore Arc would see more profit sure it may cannibalise US sales but in this instance that would be a good thing as you still sell the same amount of game copies.