PlayStation 3 Hardware Wishlist.

[Yoshimoto]

I'm sure it'll have region coding, but do you really think that the recentish court cases had anything at all to do with importing? I reckon that no more than maybe 1 or 2 percent of people with chipped PS2s have ever imported a game for it.

I doubt very much that Sony would bat an eyelid if someone developed a chip that only facilitated imports and had nothing at all to do with piracy. No one ever will though, because there would be next to no demand for one in the grand scheme of things.

[Salsa Party Animal]

I would prefer to see Sony have very very tough copy protection and have no region coding in it if this mean import freedom.

[Pacman555]

Legendary, if Sony thought like that they would have been doing it for years. The fact is that the way companies like Nintendo, Sony etc see it is that importing damages sales in territories like Europe, and thus will do their very best to prevent it.

[Kotatsu Neko]

Legendary, if Sony thought like that they would have been doing it for years. The fact is that the way companies like Nintendo, Sony etc see it is that importing damages sales in territories like Europe, and thus will do their very best to prevent it.

Yep. Sony Europe will have their own profit targets, and so if people were importing in large numbers from the US, they would see their sales drop.

Sounds silly as in the end all the money ends up back in Sony Japan, but that's just how it works.

In an ideal world then all games would be released simultaneously across the world, but with so many languages and territories in Europe such releases are always going to be the exception to the rule. Sucks but that's just how it is.

[RobN]

I'd like to see wi-fi headsets as well as controllers.

[Spatial]

Lets be honest, these days it's so easy to import stuff that region locking isn't a problem any more.

[Richard.John]

Isn't one of the reasons for region protection, that the games my have different age ratings in various territories and also that the publisher may differ as well? Then again it could just be a way of forcing price control.

[Salsa Party Animal]

Yes who give a **** about profit margains from Sony Europe or Sony USA. It still go to Sony pocket and the developers. Apart from the workers who sell games and region publishers.