New information has been released suggesting
that the Blu-ray disc format, which will be used by Sony on their upcoming Playstation 3 console, will have only one
encoding for both the US and Japanese game markets. From the article: "Japanese reports are surfacing that Blu-ray disc will adopt a new region
encoding scheme that will put Japan and the rest of East Asia into the same region as North and South America. If this
region encoding applies to Blu-ray games, this would mean that PS3 games could flow easily between Japan and North
America."If the reports are true, there will be the following four regions:
- Region 1: North America, South America, and East Asia (excluding China)
- Region 2: Europe (including Turkey), and Africa
- Region 3: China, Russia and others
- Region 4 (null): no region specified, playable anywhere.
[Thanks, Ned!]
