Sony’s PS3 to be region free
Published by Budda March 24th, 2006 in Gadgets, Consoles & Video Gaming.
Probably in the hope to keep fanboys happy, Sony have dropped a little snippet of news regarding their PS3 game strategy.
Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios President Phil Harrison confirmed what was heavily demanded for import gamers all over the world and yet previously thought unthinkable for a major corporation: the PS3 will be region-free for gaming.
The move by Sony is hoped to help combat piracy - many import fans “chip” their consoles with region-free mod chips to play import games, and while that desire has some legitimacy, it also opens the doors for pirates to release illegal copies of games.
Region-free gaming also allows game publishers to release games across the globe simultaneously, either through e-distribution or on disc.
The one caveat of this new region-free structure is that games made for specific regions’ electrical and TV standards may have problems on your TV set. A PAL PS3 game, for instance, will have difficulty running on an NTSC TV, unless the developers have thought ahead and planned for that issue.
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I cant understand why they have done this.
But im not complaining that great news for me cheap inported games.