
As suspected, Microsoft has left the decision of region-locking up to the publishers. Play-Asia has confirmed on a Japanese 360 that
Quake 4, Call of Duty 2, and
Condemned all work fine, while Microsoft published titles
PGR3, Kameo, and
Perfect Dark Zero do not. They also report European 360s behave similarly with
Ridge Racer 6, Amped 3, GUN, and
Tony Hawk all work outside of their regions.
So, while Microsoft made region encoding option for publishers, they themselves have opted to lock their titles down. So don't go importing your 360 to get one in time for Christmas.
[Via Gamebrink]
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1-05-2006 @ 2:01PM
Quake 4 said...
Bizarre locking procedures...
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