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Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period

The Wii made me absolutely rage because those consoles were region locked, preventing me from playing titles I had imported from other countries that weren’t published by Nintendo north America. I never spent money on Nintendo products after that. The rest of my family was still happy with Nintendo, and they have continued to purchase their consoles. I finally got my wife invested in PC gaming 2 years ago, and it warmed my bitter heart to hear she wanted a steam deck instead of the switch 2.

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missingno@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
That was always the case for Nintendo's home consoles, not like it was a new thing that started with the Wii. Switch was the first one to be region-free.

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- Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  This was not the case for Nintendo consoles in the past. I imported plenty of NES, SNES, GC, GB, GBA, and DS carts that were published in Asia/Europe, but not published in the Americas, and had no issues playing them until the Wii. Those consoles I just mentioned were all region free.
  
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  - missingno@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    NES and SNES were region-locked. In addition to an actual lockout chip, they even had different cartridge shapes so you couldn't physically fit Famicom or Super Famicom games.
    
    Handhelds were not (until DSi and 3DS), but I specifically said home consoles.
    
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  - ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t region locking on the NES and SNES largely implemented via the shape of the cartridge? Frank Cifaldi and the VGHF just put out that NES history video, and it had some kind of authentication chip that could only be provided by Nintendo, and it was in the NES but not the Famicom. And on Gamecube, I seem to remember you needed an Action Replay to break the region locking, but I never dabbled in it myself.
    
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    Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I wasn’t importing famicom cartidges, I was importing NES cartidges that were not published in america.
    
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  - k0e3@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    NES, SNES, and GC were definitely region locked.
    
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