Wii not region free

[Wii] UK consoles won't play US or Japanese games

Monday 18 September 2006
Nintendo has confirmed that Wii won't be region-free, despite 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:hints from Nintendo of America earlier this year. "Wii will be region encoded, as will first-party software", says Ninty, meaning UK systems won't play US or Japanese games, ending the hopes of impatient importers wanting to take advant♎age of the US Wii's cheaper price and earlier launch date.

With Nintendo's success with DS we hoped Wii would follow in the handheld's region-free footsteps. After all, the ability to import consoles hasn't hurt the sales of DS - six million of the double-screened gadgets have been shifted in Europe alone, utterly trouncing the poorly performing PSP. However, it looks like us UK gamers🍬 will just have to take the mucky end of the stick once again, waiting longer and paying more than the US and Japan.

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