It appears that Nintendo’s new console ” Wii U ” will be region locked.
The latest issue of Famitsu reports that Nintendo plans to prevent its new console from playing software outside of specified territories.
A direct quote as translated on Twitter: “What can be played on the Wii U is restricted by a region-lock feature, software not sold in the same region cannot be played.”
Wii, 3DS and many more models of Nintendo DS were locked, Earlier Nintendo hardware featured physical differences in carts as a means for region locking.
