brian.w

Will a ps3,xbox from the uk work in australia,are they locked to different regions for games or can aussie games work in uk consoles.

Also plasma and lcd do they work in oz also from the uk.

crankysid

Hi,

I'm in the same boat as you, I also have an xbox360 with around 6 games that are not compatible with the Australian games.

You can still take the console(s) and games with you as they will work until you buy any new games. The new games will not work with your console.

Your console (Region 2) - europe. Australia (Region 4).


Cheers.

Stu Ward

Many region 4 discs are also encoded with the region 2 key, so do work

Australia_bound?

PS3 plays any region game. Won't play any blu ray DVD's only those from region it was bought in! But who buys one to watch DVD's on????

Teliko21

Not true. I have a european Xbox 360 and it plays Australian games just fine.

gedge

i'm not sure, i do know my scrabble set sort of works
it just doesn't have enough o's in it for the Aussie words

Nu-Shooz

We have XBOX and it works here in OZ. It also plays the games we have bought in OZ.
We also bought a new Xbox 360 here. It plays all the games from the first Xbox bought in UK.

gedge

oh and btw, as someone has just reminded me
the forum search facility works just as well in the UK as it does in Oz

Gems

Hello,

we have been in WA a few weeks. My son is overjoyed to find his Nintendo Wii plays on a Oz tv. Also games are the same PAL format, so he can buy new Oz Nintendo wii games to use on his European wii. Good news for him, not for me!

The shop in Perth had more choice for Nintendo than Europe too.

So dont rush into getting rid of any Nintendo consoles.

GEMS

bobbyfaescotland

Ps3 Games are not region coded so you will be able to play games from Oz no problem. The Blue Ray DVD player if I remember is region B (If bought in the UK) which is the same as Australia so you can buy Blue Ray in Oz and it will also work.

Bobby

crankysid

Hi,

I have been in contact with one of my friends who works at Microsoft in the Xbox division. He has confirmed that taking the xbox to Aus will work but any games purchased in Aus will not work due to region coding, i.e. Forza 2 is region coded.

Some new games are being released region coded and some are not depends on the programmers / producers.


Cheers.

Teliko21

So explain why my UK PAL Xbox 360 plays all Australian games fine UK PAL and Australian PAL are the same thing as far as I know, has been the case with all my consoles the UK and Australian consoles and games are interchangeable.

znaylor1974

I thought the Xbox 360 was same verson for UK and Oz....

Graff

My x box 360 has been flashed with the firmware, so I guess no matter what region the game is, as long as I have a backup of the game it should play.

Teliko21

It is basically the same, I was responding crankysid who has a friend who works for Microsoft and says UK Xbox 360s will not be able to play Austrlaian games.