Quote Originally Posted by Delsus View Post
White knight chronicles 2 was released in EU 3 months earlier than US which is a lil wierd to me, and there are a few games I have seen my US friends on which I have had to wait for because its not released in EU.

Also the Wii, PSP, PS3, and i think the DS/3DS have no region locks on games, as far as I know its only the 360 that does, because there is no point in region locking consoles except to prevent imports, and people would just chip consoles to get around that.

Also modern games consoles dont require a physical chip, you just install a custom firmware if you want to play copied games etc.
I think some of the differences with release dates has something to do with where the company that made it is based. Games from Japan tend to be released in Japan first now, and then EU and US both get it at the same time, ones from US are released there first, then see EU and JAP release afterwards. In other cases it may be a case of marketing, some companies want to see how good their game is before it's released worldwide so they release in one area first, see how it goes, then branch it outwards if it does well. I think that's what Zen United were doing with Blazblue, testing to see if US and EU still liked classic sprite-based fighting games, and because it sold well they sent out a sequal and Arcana Heart 3 as well. Can only hope Cave have the same idea and release Deathsmiles 2 here, I loved the first one...

In a sense that's also what FFXI did as well, released in japan first, where it had a few problems, so they fixed those problems before giving it a release for US and EU.