These Guys Want The White House To Ban Console Region-Locking

[Hanamaru Kunikida]

http://kotaku.com/5976918/these-guys...ium=Socialflow

As absurd as this may be, I actually support this.

Maybe some people will stop hacking your systems, Nintendo.

[Ranshiin]

Well, it never made sense to me the reasons that region locks were implemented, except for that once upon a time it was to do with the difference in display formats different countries had (USA having NTSC, UK having PAL-50/60, Japan having NTSC-J, etc)

Although since the birth of the widescreen TV and the mainstream development of flat-screen TVs (which all use or support the same HD resolutions no matter what country) region-locking to prevent people finding their games wouldn't work on their TVs is now pointless. Only difference between an American HDTV and a British HDTV is the plug fitted to it and the voltage it accepts. They're all capable of 480p/720p/1080p at 60Hz. I think UK is the only country that still sells TVs with a 50/60Hz mode because our TV shows broadcast at 25fps still. For example my TV is natively 100Hz (double-buffered 50Hz display) but it obviously accepts a 60Hz signal as it works for PC, and for consoles.


so tl;dr region locking has long been pointless. I support this.

[Xeyuzio]

lol... You probably need more than just the White House to get rid of Region-Locking, I doubt they can or even would force game companies to do that though.