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    PS3, PS4, PS Vita and Xbox One are regain free for games. (I think there was one Japanese or American PS3 game that was region lock tho.)

    Blu-ray movies and Xbox 360 games region lock is the publishers decision. For example Paramount who publish among over things the Transformers, GI Joe and (most) Marvel movies don't region lock. Fox on the other hand (Star Wars I - VI, Avatar, The Simpsons) loves to region lock.

    DVD's (except region 0 DVDs), Wii, Wii U, some DS, 3DS and most PS2 era and earlier consoles are regain locked.

    DVD region locks are 0: Region Free, 1: North Armerica and Japan, 2: Europe, 3: South East Asia, 4: Australia and South America, 5: Africa and the former USSSR countries, 6: China

    Blu-Ray region locks are A: The Americas, South East Asia and Japan, B: Australia, Europe, Africa, C: China, Russia, the Asian sub-continent.

    Games are NTSC-J: Japan, NTSC-US: North America, PAL: Rest of the World.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime View Post
    I've been lent some PS3 games from the UK and I just inserted one of the disks into my AU bought PS3 and it's able to read it (currently installing update data) -- so yeah, it seems that PS3 games aren't region coded, but Blu Rays like DVDs are.
    I know in the old days (N64 and Gamecube etc), UK and AU were part of the same region. I think that's still the case, so region coding could still be an issue.

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    I found out the hard way that PS2 games are region coded... fortunately I only bought the one game while at BotCon one year, and didn't go on a spending spree on their cheaper games.
    I could have had the console unlocked, but it wasn't worth the expense just for one game... and now the system is too outdated I wouldn't be buying other games to warrant the expense either.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime View Post
    I've been lent some PS3 games from the UK and I just inserted one of the disks into my AU bought PS3 and it's able to read it (currently installing update data) -- so yeah, it seems that PS3 games aren't region coded, but Blu Rays like DVDs are.
    Quote Originally Posted by Hursticon View Post
    Yep, this is indeed the case.
    I can confirm this also as I buy all of my PS3 games from the UK (ozgameshop) and have never had an issue.
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