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Is the PlayStation 3 region-free?

April 26, 2017Playstation

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Is the PlayStation 3 region-free?

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Yes. A PS3 game from any region will work on your PlayStation 3 console. So you can but an American game while on holiday and it will work with your PAL console. PS1 and PS2 games, however, are still region-encoded. So foreign titles will not work on the PlayStation 3. Blu-Ray movies also have region-encoding, so you can only purchase movies from within your region.

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Yes. Sony has stated that 1st party Playstation 3 games will be region-free, but Blu-Ray movies will still feature a region-lock. Third party game publishers can use their own discretion and decide whether or not they want to include region-coding in their game releases.