Japanese 360 games that are not region locked

[Mad Mage]

Any Japanese-only 360 games worth picking up that are not region locked? I know all the good shmups seem to be locked, but are they ALL?

[Kaspal]

Any Japanese-only 360 games worth picking up that are not region locked? I know all the good shmups seem to be locked, but are they ALL?

yup--- all of them.

[dcharlie]

there's only a handfull of region free japanese X360 games. Ace Combat 6 is one , i think DOA4 might be too - just get the US versions

[Elixir]

They're all locked.

[dcharlie]

They're all locked.

all of note yes, but some simultaneous releases are region free - not that it makes a difference.

Quite why the X360 can't have the same regioning (i.e. NONE) as the PS3 is beyond me. Given the reason is usually to protect publishers, i can't see why the self same publishers would have one expectation on the X360 and another on the PS3. :/

[Lordstar]

They're all locked.

all of note yes, but some simultaneous releases are region free - not that it makes a difference.

Quite why the X360 can't have the same regioning (i.e. NONE) as the PS3 is beyond me. Given the reason is usually to protect publishers, i can't see why the self same publishers would have one expectation on the X360 and another on the PS3. :/

i guess it was an experiment on PS3 as its not the norm in consoles thats for sure. I guess we wont see what they thought of it until PS4 comes out or if the MS decide to bring it in when it comes to the next console.

[Aleanil]

They're all locked.

all of note yes, but some simultaneous releases are region free - not that it makes a difference.

Quite why the X360 can't have the same regioning (i.e. NONE) as the PS3 is beyond me. Given the reason is usually to protect publishers, i can't see why the self same publishers would have one expectation on the X360 and another on the PS3. :/

It's up to the companies, and for some reason *all* NTSC-J exclusive releases that I've seen have been region locked, where only a very few US releases haven't been region-free. The end result is annoying, most certainly. But my launch NTSC-J 360 I got from eBay is still running, so I don't mind overmuch.