January 2, 2006


Blu-Ray disk code US-Japan releases as one region, anime gaming fans rejoice!

Posted by Devin

Reported a couple of days ago via Engadget—

It has just been announced that the U.S. will share Blu-ray Region 1 status with South America and, more importantly, East Asia minus China. (For the 58% of young Americans who are unable to locate it on a map, this means that Japan and the US are in the same region).

The Blu-Ray version which is slated to launch with PS3, Well, that means quite a few things—

(1) Games from Japan will instantly be played here in the States. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a brisk import business around games. However, we may be seeing a shift in the creation of PS3 games
(2) A bi-lingual track or a sub track for J-games that haven’t been able to crack the US market because of the translation problems of creating a new game. If the region is the same, maybe they’ll “tweak” the next generation of games to contain sub tracks.
(3) It really doesn’t matter since some games are just fighting sims. Who cares if you can’t read the Japanese!

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