| CosmicSex said:
No the Xbox One is both region locked and DRM locked on the 'government sanctioned' version. This is one of the reasons the Xbox One has a hard time there because you can actually by a cheaper one on the gray market that will actually play a game like Halo which makes the official version even less attractive. The PS4 was speculated to be similar, and it was one of the hottest topics on the Chinese gaming boards so this is a huge win. Expect a sharp uptick in preorders. I don't understand how Sony managed to do this though with China's over the top censorship practices. Or maybe we all exaggerated it. |
In fact, we actually haven't been paying attention. Apparently, SCEJA stealthly confirmed that the PS4 and Vita will be region free in an interview with Game Watch 2 weeks ago. So, perhaps we have been exaggerated China's censorship.
“Mr. Soeda talked about this today as well, but firstly now the market has been opened for console game import/manufacturing/sales in the Shanghai free trade zone. The Shanghai Culture Bureau holds the approval and license for sales of the console hardware, the first person who took the stage today was Mr. Kai. This bureau holds the authority to give permission for sales of consoles. We went to them and we wanted them to let us release PlayStation as a unified standard product globally, and they gave us sales permission, and the other day we received that sales permission, and that’s what the status is today, which I hope you can understand,” he said to Game Watch.
Original source: http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/interview/20141213_680226.html
Translation from Reddit (courtesty of orfogw): http://www.reddit.com/r/PS4/comments/2p4hw7/chinese_ps4_to_have_no_region_lock_we_wanted_to/cmtjipt
