Wii and 360 import owners

[Family Fry]

Deadly Premonition might never make it.

Don't say that!
It's been BBFC'd so it's just a time of when (sept?)

Have a US Wii myself, Nintendo EU pile of crap and always will be, I just don't trust them.

[EvilBoris]

It's down for the 17th of September

[Family Fry]

September 17th, oh dear.
I like Halo Reach and I like Deadly Premonition but which is better? There's only one way to find out....

[EvilBoris]

Who cares, I'm not going to be able to play either of them on launch anyway

It sucks to be me.

[Family Fry]

We all know it sucks to be you.
Give me your tickets and you can house sit playing halo fair deal.

[JP]

Currently Own
PlayStation 3 (UK) Main console really. Used for games, films, music, TV and pretty much everything in the house when it comes to electronic entertainment now I think about it.
Wii (UK) Has only been on for about four hours in the three months we've had it so It'll be for sale here by the weekend. Soft-modded but I've not used it for anything either.
Xbox 360 (UK) Get's used infrequently. It's mainly the bigger first party games to be honest. Didn't have one for a couple of years so also got a few oldies I want to play through.
PSPgo (USA) Don't use it much myself but it does get a lot of use elsewhere in the house.


End of The Month
PlayStation 3 (UK) Will carry on as before.
PlayStation 3 (USA) Mainly for my stupidly sized US blu-ray collection.
Xbox 360 (UK) May part-ex for a Japanese model but the price of importing games has to be considered before that happens. Have even thought about just selling it as there seems to be less and less of interest on the horizon when it comes to games, I would rather keep it though as there are still some decent games on the way even if there doesn't seem to be the amount there has been in the past.
PSPgo (USA) I probably still won't use it that often apart from Gran Turismo which do I really like. It's possible that it'll be replaced with a DS/3DS although I have no real interested in that either.

So we've currently got 3 UK and 1 US consoles and by the end of the month it'll be 2 UK & 2 US consoles with the PSPgo & 360 still undecided as to what's going to happen.

[msm13579]

i got a Japanese 360, like a lot of people, for the shooters, just for deathsmiles in fact, the others have been a welcome bonus

[averybluemonkey]

I've got a JP 360 here.

One big reason for owning a US 360 is you get access to the Cabela games plus numerous Japanese Strat/Strat-RPGs that didn't make it over here such as Operation Darkness, Culdcept Saga and Spectral Force 3.

[Paulos G]

I have a 360 from each region.

My PAL one (which was a replacement for my launch machine which RRODed after 11.5 months) died a couple of weeks ago. Haven't bothered to replace it yet. Will get around to getting a cheap arcade unit at some stage I expect.

Bought a second-hand NTSC-J machine from a fellow forumite yonks ago. That's still going strong. The exchange rate isn't, however, so I haven't bought anything for it for a while.

Bought a US arcade unit when I was in the States for four months a couple of years ago. I leave it set up at my second home so I only have to take my HDD with me when I pop over to do the washing.

Will be over in the US for a week at the beginning of next month and intend to get a few cheapy second-hand bargains while I'm there.

[Soundwave]

I have 2 Jpn 360's & a US Wii

1 is a launch 360 I got from Bleeders & is borked with an E74 graphics error but I want to get it fixed so I have a spare for when I get my Naomi or Atomiswave to run the shooters in a cab

1 360 is a Hdmi model that does (currently ) work

My Wii is a US machine thats softmodded & like others was bought mostly for the 60hz goodness of the VC & originally because the UK VC wasnt getting all the same consoles for download.
Plus some games arent too dear at the moment on VG+ (NMH2 for example) so it;s not that bad for the Wii really.

I will still continue to import if the titles appear that I want (more shooters mostly) but I do feel a little hard done by with the exhange rate lately but I've been seeing that it slowly creeping up again so hopefully it'll mean it may get a tad cheaper again.

Neil

[NemesiS]

Just stick with PAL systems these days.

I can't read/speak Japanese and unlike the giddy gamer i was in the early nineties when i bought imports from Japan regardless of whether they were text heavy RPG's, Fighters or Shmups etc, i simply can't be arsed importing now.

I can wait nowadays and even if there is a stellar title that gets an eastern release with no hope of a western release, it just doesn't bother me anymore if i'm never to play it, whereas years ago i would have bought it and not understood a f*cking word of it. I'm getting old, lol.

[C']

PAL 360 from Jan 2006 (about 4 weeks after launch) and a few weeks ago I finally picked up the JP 360 I've been promising myself for years. Mostly for the shooters that I've been collecting for the last 18 months or so.

PAL Wii. Importing any games (of which there are very few that interest me anyway) is handling via Homebrew Channel but the real benefit I get from that is being able to play my GC imports too. When I learnt, just prior to launch, that PAL VC was going to be 50hz only (for the most part) I was certain I'd go for a US console but the excitement of launch night got to me and I was straight into a queue at a local 24 hour Asda to get one. I think i had the intention to replace it down the line with a US console but it's never transpired.

US 60GB PlayStation 3. Purely for PS2 backwards compatibility. Regret not grabbing a JP one too when they were freely available as I think the upscaling/smoothing options look pretty good on the right games. Recently getting a PC capable of running PCSX2 really well means this is becoming less of a concern though, but that can still be glitchy and compatibility is far from 100%.

[chopemon]

I have a JP 360 and a US Wii as well as a PAL 360.

Thge exchange rate has been a pain in the ass recently but I've started picking up more and more JP 360 games recently. Despite already owning Raiden, I will be picking up a PAL copy as well to 'send a message' that more stuff like that should be released over here.

[J0e Musashi]

I have two PS3's and two PSP's. All are Japanese, and I only buy Japanese games. I just pretend Sony isn't region-free.

I had a Japanese 360 for a short while. It was when all of you laughed at such a notion and everyone thought buying a USA one was where it was at.

but why would ever want a US one? What comes out in America that doesn't come out here?

Red Seeds Profile. You lose stupid question boy

[Neon Ignition]

All PAL based with the arrival of this gen. The PS3/PSP are open ended and my Wii is softmodded so there's enough methods of getting hold of the import games that I'm interested in such as Red Seeds Profile, Project Zero 4 etc. My 360 used to be import friendly too but I've had so many die on me I gave up on that ages ago... plus there's not really much of an import scene for it to be worthwhile.

If region coding comes back next gen I'd still be up for it though.