i have found a question not addressed by a wiki article!!!!!

it seems that Playstations are transferable to the promised land.....

but is a Uk bought Xbox 360 compatible with Canada???

advice from those with experience or who are 'in the know' would be appreciated.

hy everyone

xbox 360(european version) has a detachable hard drive ,which according to xbox customer service is compatible with a north american console,
a european console wont work with US cd's and US console wont work with european cds..dumb...for anyone who intends to buy a xbox console, think twice about it, i bought 3 in last 2 years, two have crashed ,the good side with xbox is that they have a excellent gaming network and some great games available only on xbox(forza,halo series)

Put it on Ebay in the UK and buy a PS3 with the proceeds. It's the only logical solution

There are a few things to look at here:

1) PAL vs NTSC. UK uses PAL, Canada and US use NTSC. This is the display format. I'm not sure what the deal is in regards to this. I *think* you should be ok though, as PAL has more lines than NTSC, thus it can display a full NTSC picture, whereas if it were an NTSC unit it might not be able to show the full picture. However, it would not surprise me if the unit could handle both without issue.

2) Region coding on games and DVDs. Typically you're looking at Region 2 (UK) and Region 1 (North America). As with normal DVD players, an R2 disk will only play in an R2 player. The xbox is no exception to this. Thus your UK games will play in your machine, but it will NOT play US games or dvd's.
If it were an original xbox I'd tell you to get it modchipped and install XBMC on it as that'll allow it to be region free when it comes to DVDs and possibly games - though I'm not 100 percent on the game side of things.

3) Power. Obviously different power requirements here, so you'd need a convertor of some sort.

eBay for the win mesthinx!

many thanks one and all.








so.... anyone wanna buy a Xbox 360 60Gb and a few games?

Not strictly true.

We brought our UK XBOX 360 with us, we had it working intermittently, then brought a Canadian one, we transferred the HDD and Wireless Adaptor along with the extra controllers etc.... After 6 months, my son decided to "try the UK games sat in the basement", to our surprise, almost half of them worked!

Don't get rid of all your PAL games yet, might be worth a try. BTW, we are using Component output to Sanyo 46" LCD displaying at 1080p. Sweet!!!

If you are high-def then this won't matter at all. Tho it's funny how tv's everywhere in the world apart from the US and Canada are multi-sync and have been since the mid 90's.

okay.... so doubt creeps back in....

so i ought to be able to play Canadian bought games on a UK Xbox360?

i tend not to keep games once i finish them, so the PAL titles will be gone soon.

but of course thoughts such as these fail to consider the power supply needed by the console, irrespective of what it is being used for / with.

Power converters of the size needed for an xbox aren't expensive. I'd make this decision based on the cost of a new one vs cost of shipping. New ones are $199 according to G77 on this thread. I would have said bring it anyway, but he convinced me that it was a marginal decision.

The really I agree with el_richo above

^^^it really does seem that the cost of a new one is marginally more than the sale of our current one (inclusive of games we have) plus a console bought out there isn't likely to risk breaching any house insurance due to the voltage malarky.

i could return to the Sony side though..... i had only bought an Xbox after a lifetime of loyal playstationing, due to the cost of PS3 over here.

Peee Ess Three, Peee Ess Three.......Do it!!!!!!

Then let me know your ID and i'll let you use me for target practice when Call of Duty 6: Modern Warfare 2 comes out later in the year

a compelling arguement! COD6 eh? will there be more mushroom clouds? 4 > 5 IMO

Apparently the people that did COD4 are doing COD6 - so hopefully it will be good (fed up with disappointing games)

yee ha!
ive spoken to a friend of mine, who has played it, and he says its a-maz-ing!

Gran Turismo 5 is what I'm waiting for. Sell the 360 for a PS3!