![Nintendo to region-lock the Wii U](https://www.thetechgame.com/images/news/article/23704b0c19.jpg)
This means that games bought in the US, Europe or Japan will only be accessible for machines built for those regions.
Region-locking devices is a longstanding Nintendo policy that has been in place across numerous games consoles including the 3DS, Wii, GameCube, N64, SNES and NES.
Platform holders Sony and Microsoft take a different stance to region-locking. Both allow publishers to decide whether they want to lock games to continents, of which in most cases they do not.
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