PS3 to be region free • Page 2

ilmaestro 25 Mar 2006 21:10:55 32,932 posts
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Except that I would know that I could've been playing the Japanese version earlier if I hadn't had to wait for the localization to be finished.

kaosridder 27 Mar 2006 10:51:36 88 posts
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you cant make games entirely regionfree. In some countries things are banned which need to be taken out prior to release. Ninja Gaiden behadingfeature and Germany comes to mind.

gizmo 27 Mar 2006 11:10:20 2,100 posts
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Machetazo wrote:
A game only exists once a developer/publisher chooses to make information available about it. If for example, a Japanese announcement of a titles release is seen elsewhere and the game resonates well, then at some point the "patience clock" in other regions starts ticking. But, if you just have the one disc/launch, then, in theory, all the time that's needed can be put into the localisation, because no-one would be any the wiser about the title's existence till it's chosen to be made public.

Edited by Machetazo at 20:22:18 25-03-2006

Remember this is business and cash is king, nobody's going to sit on a finished game waiting for it to be localised for the whole of Europe whilst it could be earning revenues in the mean time.

tengu 8 May 2007 19:54:54 10,294 posts
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