PS3 Region free

projectmayhem · 13-11-2005 11:14PM #1

http://www.ps3portal.com/?view=article&article=207&PHPSESSID=c6dc558c41bbbb33de4583915ac8475f

granted this isn't 100% solid absolutely set-in-stone information, but it's quite a nice tidbit until any proper word is made. plus, it's nice to hear it from someone within sony, as opposed to an unofficial mag or whatever

Willymuncher · 16-11-2005 08:18AM

It'd be fantastic if it was, although I remain doubtful. If it did happen, I'd definitely save myself some cash and import a console from the states.

Ciaran500 · 16-11-2005 09:17AM

I really can't see this happening. Sony were not exactly import friendly with the PSP.

CiaranC · 16-11-2005 09:19AM

Seems unlikely.

steviec · 17-11-2005 03:32PM

Ciaran500 wrote:

I really can't see this happening. Sony were not exactly import friendly with the PSP.

I own Japanese, American and European games that I play on my Japanese PSP. It's about the most import friendly console there is. I'm aware they weren't too accommodating of importers who tried to sell the console when it was unreleased here, but it is region free.

It was someone at Sony who talked about it being region free, so their obviously thinking about it. Hopefully it'll turn out to be true, the reasoning behind it makes sense(no more pal/ntsc differences), but that counts on everybody owning HDTVs, which everybody certainly doesn't and won't for a few years yet.

projectmayhem · 17-11-2005 07:04PM

games will still work without a HD-TV, but obviously they wont be as crisp

steviec · 18-11-2005 03:07AM

projectmayhem wrote:

games will still work without a HD-TV, but obviously they wont be as crisp

Yea I know that, but they were saying the console would be region free because there's no HDTV regions. But when connecting to a standard tv would your region free PS3 be outputting NTSC or PAL or both?

That's the one snag I can think of with it being region free. I really hope it is though.

Laguna · 18-11-2005 03:13AM

Well I know everyone is a bit unsure of the new consoles and their bias towards HDTV (including myself), but surely you could pick up a nice Dell 19" LCD-TV for €448 for the PS3, I myself bought one purely for my Xbox 360 (when I get it!) as the TV is capable of 1080i interlaced hi-def output. Granted it's not a HDTV per se, nor is the 25ms something to shout about, but ****, it'll be a damn sight better than my existing 15" Philips!

steviec · 18-11-2005 03:26AM

Yea I'm getting a HDTV soon too, for the xbox 360(which I haven't preordered so and couldn't when I tried so I'm not sure how soon I'll have it)

I have to say those xbox 360 stands in shops are the best publicity for high definition tv and samsung. I wanted one as soon as I played it, more than I wanted the console. I was unsure of the console but an extended play of the Kameo demo in Xtravision today really changed my mind. And I love the joypad. More than a PS2 one, and I've always loved the playstation joypads.

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