There’s a New Campaign to Make the Wii U Region Free

<p>With Microsoft and Sony making their respective next-gen systems region free&comma; gamers around the world are now banding together in an attempt to get Nintendo to make the same move and make the Wii U region free&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This post on <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;neogaf&period;com&sol;forum&sol;showthread&period;php&quest;t&equals;585936">NeoGAF<&sol;a> has collected a bunch of posts from Nintendo fans &lpar;many with hand drawn images&rpar; that plead with Nintendo to cease its region-locking ways&period; As <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;destructoid&period;com&sol;gamers-campaign-to-end-wii-u-region-locking-256868&period;phtml">Destructoid <&sol;a>notes&comma; this campaign already has a <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;EndRegionLock">Twitter account<&sol;a>&comma; Twitter hastags in the forms of &num;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;search&quest;q&equals;&percnt;23NintendoRegionFree&amp&semi;src&equals;hash">NintendoRegionFree<&sol;a> and &num;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;search&quest;q&equals;&percnt;23EndRegionLocking&amp&semi;src&equals;hash">EndRegionLocking<&sol;a>&comma; and a <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;change&period;org&sol;en-GB&sol;petitions&sol;nintendo-stop-region-blocking-make-the-3ds-and-wii-u-region-free">petition<&sol;a>&comma; which&comma; as of writing&comma; it only has 660 supporters&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;As you know&comma; every Nintendo home console since the NES and every handheld since the DSi has made use of region-locking&comma;&&num;8221&semi; reads the NeoGAF post from user Cheesemeister&period; &&num;8220&semi;This has kept many region-exclusive titles out of the hands of otherwise prospective customers&period; If it hadn&&num;8217&semi;t been for the original DS being region-free&comma; not many in the West would&&num;8217&semi;ve been able to play <em>Ouendan<&sol;em> and turn it into a a cult hit&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Now&comma; more than ever&comma; is our chance to tell Nintendo that we want the Wii U and 3DS to be made region-free&period; Please help in any way that you can&period; Please remember to be polite&excl;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This being the year 2013&comma; region locking seems to be a holdover from previous generations that just needs to go&period; If a consumer wants to go through the work of importing a game&comma; simply because they want to play that game&comma; or because it&&num;8217&semi;s not available in their country for some silly reason&comma; let them do it&period; That&&num;8217&semi;s real dedication&period; And&comma; as the aforementioned petition states&comma; the money made from sales would still find their way to Nintendo&comma; the devs and the distributors&period; So what&&num;8217&semi;s the big downside&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Come on&comma; Nintendo&comma; you know you wanna make nice and give people what they want&period; It would earn you a decent amount brownie points&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;