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If I purchase a 2DS from Japan, will I be able to play American games on it?

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Like the Nintendo 3DS before it, the new 2DS is region-locked, which, unfortunately, means that devices can only play games with the same region codes, and you can’t access online stores from different regions. 

Since Japan is a whole different region than North America, you can't play North American games on it.

See this answer for more information on how Nintendo does region locking (its for the 3ds, but it should be identical for the 2ds).

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  • Thank you so much for the information! That is what I thought, but the info I saw online was not very clear.
    – Dana
    Dec 5, 2016 at 2:03
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    This region locking is pretty terrible. I wanted to try some Japan only games but I'm not about to buy a new system for one game...
    – Nelson
    Dec 5, 2016 at 6:46

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