PS3 to play US and Japanese discs?
updated 01:45 pm EDT, Thu August 17, 2006
PS3 to have loose regions?
Sony has made the somewhat surprising statement that later this year, in Japan and the United States, Blu-Ray movies and players will end up sharing the same region codes. Most DVD players have very specific coding which prevents a movie (or game) released in one market from working with a player from another market. If today's news will also affect the PS3's Blu-Ray drive, could this mean that native Japanese games will be playable in the US without mods? Depending on a forthcoming decision from the Blu-Ray Disc Association, HD-DVD players may also wind up using similar region codes.
