A paywall that will give you free games on Vita, PS3 and Drive Club for free on PS4. I'm in.
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SCEI PR: PS4 is not region locked
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Brawly Likes to Brawl
Member
Hallelujah! Good to know that if I pick up a PS4 down the road, importing won't be a hurdle.
Wait, Driveclub is free day one for PS+? Is it a F2P game or something or just a bonus for PS+ subscribers?
Tallshortman
Member
Still retail, bonus game for subscribers.
The Driveclub PS+ user will get is a special "PS+ edition". I say expect a F2P model.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
Couldn't have said it any better.
Movies that are locked (not all are) should still be, there's absolutely no reason for that to go away.
Will I be able to swap X and O buttons...? Really annoying that you can't on PS3, Vita, or PSP...
Still, good news
I'm glad to be in Japan and getting a Japanese model for the O = confirm thing alone ahah. Hacked my PSP into doing this, getting a Vita here too. Can't myself ever going back to X=confirm
Honey Bunny
Member
Well ain't this just the cherry on top.
This makes sense, as they had to differentiate it as a special edition, meaning it may have differences from the retail one (it's a game that is multiplayer oriented anyway, at least that's how they presented it). I hope they give us a very low price upgrade-to-retail option, if that's the case, I don't like the nickel/dime of F2P, where you could pay 100$ and still lack any full-retail game's offerings. In any way, DriveClub is going to be a household name, now that multiplayer requires PS+. Every single person that has PS+ will have Drive Club, that's quite an important thing.
The Penguin Fairy
Member
I don't even import games but if this is true it makes me happy.
I should make a Sony shrine in my closet out a bubblegum. ;P
I should make a Sony shrine in my closet out a bubblegum. ;P
Dash Kappei
Not actually that important
What the fuck are you talking about?
Mr_Appleby
Member
excellent news, i made many great region free purchases on ps3 - og demon's souls asian edition, warriors orochi Z, catherine and a few other things i all bought before they were available in my country (and some still aren't of course)
rykomatsu
Member
:-(
Pretty big deal imho...Some games explicitly say "press O to start" and on the US systems, you need to press X...
Most recently, this happened on Oboro Muramasa on Vita...supposed to press O to open chests and shit, but on US Vita, it's X. To make matters worse, X is linked to Jump, so it's a PITA to try to open a chest while jumping..
Succinct Verbosity
Member
Will you be my valentines, Sony?
fart town usa
Gold Member
abap
Sony always wins
Sony always wins
DangerMouse
Member
Man, this is beautiful!
It's great to know I'll be able to play some of those JP games that have no chance of making it over or that get overlooked again.
This also means we could use a Super Robot Wars
Yeah, it's getting way too popular for it not to get a game.
It's great to know I'll be able to play some of those JP games that have no chance of making it over or that get overlooked again.
This also means we could use a Super Robot Wars
Yeah, it's getting way too popular for it not to get a game.
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
BananaBomb
Member
what a finish
Unknown Soldier
Member
The odds of such a game, if it got made, actually being good are slim to none.
One must still dream.
Haaaa, I see what you mean. Some games are indeed problematic. I had some troubles with the poker sequence in Sleeping Dogs last year, playing the EU game on my JP system the controls were fucked up (only for that sequence, and I could still progress fortunately).
Bring on Pawapuro baseball!
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
Is there any more official announcements on the region free bit though? Was hoping they would have mentioned it during the presentation
It's facing Gran Turismo this holiday and Sony needs 1 retail game that has mass appeal. So out of Killzone, Knack, Drive Club, Infamous, this is it. It's the ideal choice for them to make.
IF they do, I hope they make next-gen version of this song/sequence:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDD6Vbw9llI
Lapidus' Beard
Member
If that's true it means no more worries for Ryu Ga Gotoku 6 for me
Sony has just won this gen.
Hackers are going to hack the hell out of the Xbone, because they feel they have to. The PS4 may not be hacked because hackers feel do not need to. Remember the PS3 wasn't opened until Sony took away Linux. The normal reason was to get around region locking.
Microsoft just unleashed the tide on themselves.
Hackers are going to hack the hell out of the Xbone, because they feel they have to. The PS4 may not be hacked because hackers feel do not need to. Remember the PS3 wasn't opened until Sony took away Linux. The normal reason was to get around region locking.
Microsoft just unleashed the tide on themselves.
fatgamecat
Member
I'm expecting to jump through some Vita-like hoops to switch regions, but anything is better than hardware region lock.
-Plasma Reus-
Service guarantees member status
How would that work though? Swapping HARD DRIVES? :x
They said you could have multiple accounts on the same system already, so I'm rather optimistic and expect it to be no more complicated than how the PS3 works.
IonicSnake
Banned
Have they said anything about being able to switch hdd?
Aquamarine
Member
It's official. Shuhei Yoshida tweet = Official.
He's like #3 at Sony Computer Entertainment.
We're done here.
PS4 is not region locked, everyone.
ambientmystic
Member
The final touch to an already almost flawless day for Sony.