Americas and Japan can be region-free, while Europe can be region-locked ^_^. Since everybody in USA is saying that our Wii will be region-free and people in Europe are saying the Wii isn't region-free.... They're both right!

Obviously you don't have much experience with your Xbox 360. The decision to region-lock a game rests with the publisher. There are many games that are region-free on the Xbox 360. You might want to look into things before calling someone a "noob" or using profanity.

With all this "its region-free, no its not" thing, I think we'll only know on launch

What you're saying is that a console is dubbed "region-free" if a developer chooses to, or by mistake doesn't encode their game to be region specific? I think that's incredibly innacurate. The Nintendo DS is region free, or to clarify, any game that has been made, or will ever be made will work on every system in the world. That's region free.

#7, my source? You know each post that isn't a press release or editorial has a "Via [Source]" link right? My source is Go Nintendo's NOA rep, Allison.



#10, no, I say that a console is region-free if the hardware manufacturer does not build in any region-lock. If the publisher makes it impossible to play on a different region's console, that's something the hardware manufacturer can't stop.



#11, the PSP is region-free for games. Only UMD movies are region-locked.