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PS3 from New York. Will irish games work?

  • 14-11-2009 3:15pm
    #1
    Leiva
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭


    As the title says . . Have a chance to get a ps3 for a gift to someone from new York .
    Will Irish games work here in a U.S ps3 ?


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  • #2
    F1ngers
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,681 Mod ✭✭✭✭F1ngers


    mixednuts wrote: »
    As the title says . . Have a chance to get a ps3 for a gift to someone from new York .
    Will Irish games work here in a U.S ps3 ?

    Yes. PS3 games are region free.


  • #3
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,316 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    You'll just need to sort out the different plug issue. No biggie.


  • #4
    Leiva
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Leiva


    Thank you both :)


  • #5
    [Deleted User]
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    PS3 games will work. PS1 games and dvd's won't.


  • #6
    smooch71
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,096 ✭✭✭smooch71


    Blurays bought over here won't work either


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  • #7
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    smooch71 wrote: »
    Blurays bought over here won't work either

    Only region locked Blurays wont work.


  • #8
    eddhorse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,785 ✭✭✭eddhorse


    Should be a sticky for this or the search function should be used !
    Especially coming up to xmas


  • #9
    RangeR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,265 ✭✭✭RangeR


    Mossy Monk wrote: »
    Only region locked Blurays wont work.

    But that would be >99% of commercially available DVD's that are region locked


  • #10
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    RangeR wrote: »
    But that would be >99% of commercially available DVD's that are region locked

    Blurays are not DVD's and a surprisingly large number of them are region free.


  • #11
    RangeR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,265 ✭✭✭RangeR


    Mossy Monk wrote: »
    Blurays are not DVD's and a surprisingly large number of them are region free.

    My bad. Didn't read your post properly. I full retract :)


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  • #12
    macpac26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 282 ✭✭macpac26


    Nearly all of the new bluray releases are region locked, around the time of the PS3s release a lot of them were region free, i got BBCs Planet Earth from the States. In fairness US Amazon have great prices on Blu rays so its not really an issue. Will customs nab you for bringing a PS3 back?


  • #13
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 52,407 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    macpac26 wrote: »
    Nearly all of the new bluray releases are region locked, around the time of the PS3s release a lot of them were region free, i got BBCs Planet Earth from the States. In fairness US Amazon have great prices on Blu rays so its not really an issue. Will customs nab you for bringing a PS3 back?

    Take it out of the box and bring it on as carry on luggage. It will be embarassing being the only nerd at security that takes an entire PS3 out of their bag to put through the security scanner but if asked by customs you can just say you brought it over with you because you have a games addiction problem. It's what I had to do when I got mine except mine was a phat PS3 and was heavy as all ****. Mine had to go through the MS sniffer machine as well but other than that, no trouble.
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  • #14
    projectmayhem
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    I think it's a disgrace this thread has gone this far without one joke about "Irish games"


    ...but alas I don't know if Gaelic Games from PS2 works on the PS3 (60GB)


  • #15
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    macpac26 wrote: »
    Nearly all of the new bluray releases are region locked

    I guess I must be lucky so.

    This is a good site for checking if a disc is region free or not


  • #16
    Glico Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,283 ✭✭✭Glico Man


    Just make sure you have played it once before bringing it back with you, cos I know someone that bought a laptop in the US and were asked by customs to turn it on to prove it was there's and that they hadn't just bought it....Of course they had though..

    The plug might be the issue then....


  • #17
    witnessmenow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,264 ✭✭✭witnessmenow


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    Take it out of the box and bring it on as carry on luggage. It will be embarassing being the only nerd at security that takes an entire PS3 out of their bag to put through the security scanner but if asked by customs you can just say you brought it over with you because you have a games addiction problem. It's what I had to do when I got mine except mine was a phat PS3 and was heavy as all ****. Mine had to go through the MS sniffer machine as well but other than that, no trouble.


    **** is it heavy. I did the exact same thing, I had a connecting flight at Heathrow too. My School bag easily weighed over 15kg that day :P


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