PS3 News

Woot! Ill buy it used whent he price goes down in a few years and ill have a region free dvd player that can play games =D =D =D

It'll be years before the price drops. I'm pretty sure Sony are designing this to be a 10 year console, not just a five year console.

Talking about 10 year, the other day, Sony announced the end of their PS1 production. They need the space for PS3 production.

I can wait. I wonder if japanese games will have optional subtitles now.

I'd imagine so.

I can't remember if I've already said this, or if it was in one of the articles, but [as we all know] the Blu-Ray discs are 50gb - which means there's more than enough space for your average game...in numerous languages. So yes, you'll probably get subtitles, and you're likely to get the game in English, on the same disc.

They are doing the region free thing as a measure to counter piracy. The #1 reason people "modded" their consoles was to play imported games, and it had the side effect of being able to play burned games. They hope to avoid that.

I personally don't see what's wrong with modding your console to play an import say, if it came out half a year earlier in another country, or was native to only one territory.

I don't think Sony does either. The problem with it is that people used the mod to play burned games as well (or instead, as the case usually was).