Nintendo's next console seems likely to reverse the company's recent policy of mandatory region locking, which limits software to run only on hardware sold in the same geographic area.
In a recent Q&A with investors (translated by NeoGAF), company President Satoru Iwata said, while "nothing has been decided yet, we're currently investigating internally what problems there would be in realizing [a region free system]. You can think of that as the current situation. I understand your desire, so I'd like to look at it optimistically going forward."
Iwata's statement applies solely to Nintendo's next console, the still-nebulous "NX" that was officially announced in March. Removing the region locks that exist on the Wii U and 3DS, however, "presents various issues, so we don't consider that to be very realistic," he said.
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