this era of region lock truly needs to end because like i said in a different petition of nintendo to stop supporting region lock here is the link:http://www.change.org/p/nintendo-remove-region-lock-on-wii-wii-u-and-3ds recruiter=150934835&utm_campaign=signature_receipt&utm_medium=email&utm_source=share_petition is that the interset here in the states toward japan have become more bigger and stronger than ever before and that nintendo not lisening to there consumers to remove region locking from there console (when the PS4 and Xbox One is region free exculding china but that is a different story completly) is complety pathetic and is basically saying to the consumer that you should not go to them for entertainment and go to Sony, Microsoft, and even to a certain extent Valve.