A petition on Change.org asking Nintendo to change their policies towards region locking has over 13,000 signatures. The petition states that the Wii U, 3DS, and Wii are the only major consoles on the market that have some form of region locking, and it is “restrictive to customers.”
According to the website Barrel Roll Gaming, Nintendo has issued a response to the petition, saying that they have no intentions to remove the region lock on Nintendo consoles.
Nintendo has no plans to remove region locking from our systems. By taking this approach, Nintendo is able to include parental controls and ensure compliance with regional standards and rating systems
The campaign to end region locking on Nintendo consoles started after Microsoft reversed their policies with Xbox One.
