Originally Posted by
Joust Williams
I would be but, oh wait, not region free. I wonder if they realize that it'd sell more in the US than Japan, seeing as how there are about 50x as many systems. Even if the Japanese 360 fans ARE hardcore.
It kind of bugs me the attitude of companies like this. They could make the game region free, work out a deal to send a bunch of copies to Amazon to sell to US Xbox 360 owners, and they'd more than likely make far by doing it themselves that way. Instead, they're going to sit around hoping that some US company picks the games up, which who knows if will ever happen.
I guess, though, not knowing the money Japanese companies get for publishing rights, they probably stand to make more taking the chance of the games getting picked up versus taking a few extra steps to insure that fans in other countries could play the games, which is sad. Plus, with PS3 titles being region free from the start, I'm not so sure I would buy the argument that they have to make the releases region encoded in order to ensure a publishing deal.
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