Olengie said: What problems would there be if Nintendo decided to make it region free? Click to expand...

I believe speculation (not sure if it was confirmed, honestly) was that this was originally done to prevent reveres importation. The yen was as such that buying games outside of japan was way cheaper, so Nintendo wanted to prevent that.As for taking it out, I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt and believe the region locks are on a part of the system that would be very difficult to get rid of with new firmware and that modders having different levels of access is what makes it possible for them. Either that or weird business deals stop it. Either way, if they don't do it going forward with new systems than it's fine.