Nintendo has confirmed that its newly-announced DS handheld console revamp, the DSi, will not allow you to play games bought in other regions. The DSi features a camera, SD card slot, web browser and larger screens and launches in November in Japan and, according to the rumours, Spring 2009 in Europe.
The region lock, stopping Japanese DSi consoles playing European games etc. is only for DSi-specific games (cartridges or downloaded from the new “DSi Shop”), existing DS games will still be region-free. So why should gamers be up in arms about such a limited region lock?
