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    Tales of Vesperia

    Game » consists of 14 releases. Released Aug 07, 2008

    Tales of Vesperia is a Japanese Role-Playing Game and the first entry in the long-running "Tales of" franchise on seventh-generation consoles.

    Is the US Version of Tales of Vesperia Region Locked?

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    #1  Edited By SaitenMar

    Hello,

    Was wondering if anyone knew if the Version to be released in the US is going to be Region Locked? I know it hasn't been released yet so we can't be 100% sure but I was hopeing someone might have heard something. Now I don't import many Japanese games if I'm honest, I imported Lost Odyssey which was Region Free. I have read that the Japanese version which as already been released is Region Locked, though the Japanese Version of Lost Odyssey is Region Locked aswell... yet the US Version (or English Speaking Version) works on both US 360's and PAL 360 systems. So I'm still a little unclear! it could be that its the same way and that the US English Speaking Version will work on PAL System!

    Anyone know!

    Thanks!

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    #2  Edited By plainoldsam

    Sorry, a member of NeoGAF ran a test and found that the NA version of Tales of Vesperia is not compatible with PAL systems. I feel for you guys though.

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    #3  Edited By SaitenMar
    plainoldsam said:
    "Sorry, a member of NeoGAF ran a test and found that the NA version of Tales of Vesperia is not compatible with PAL systems. I feel for you guys though."

    Thanks for the info mate, I'll never understand why they don't make them region free because they would make much more money. Guess we'll have to wait. I hear Q1 2009 now though I have a feeling that'll be delayed!
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    #4  Edited By Icemael
    SaitenMar said:

    Thanks for the info mate, I'll never understand why they don't make them region free because they would make much more money. Guess we'll have to wait. I hear Q1 2009 now though I have a feeling that'll be delayed!"
    Thing is, they don't. By region locking they can(and do) price discriminate. If you compare the prices of games here in Europe to the U.S ones, you'll find that prices can be almost twice as high here. While I do understand  that the companies only want money, I don't see why the EU releases are so late. It's not like it takes half a year to make German, French and Spanish translations of the instruction books, right?(Most of the European countries don't even need translated versions.)
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