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IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey Famous title comes to consoles.

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Old 09-24-2009, 05:14 PM
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i should think so.. we get it in australia and dont quote me on it but im pretty sure we are a part of asia, we play in all the australasian cup sports so im guessing we would get the same sh*t
For console gaming australia counts as europe (dont know the reason why)
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Old 09-24-2009, 05:58 PM
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For console gaming australia counts as europe (dont know the reason why)
Because they speak english. Thats the truth btw.
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Old 09-24-2009, 06:19 PM
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According to Microsoft, they use three game regions (not to be confused with DVD regions):

NTSC: North America and South America (United States, Canada, Mexico, Chile, and Brazil)

NTSC-J: Asia (Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan)

PAL: Europe, South Africa, India, Australia, and New Zealand

(In case you didn't know, the terms NTSC and PAL usually refer to TV systems.)

So yes, an Australian XBOX can play the European version of the game, but unfortunately those of us with NTSC-J region XBOXs can't. Which totally sucks, since I haven't been able to find any information about a possible NTSC-J release.

I hated DVD region encoding (and happily hacked my old DVD players to get around it), and think this region encoding for XBOX games is ridiculous as well. PS3 games DON'T use this system -- their games are all region-free.
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Old 09-24-2009, 06:40 PM
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Region encoding is just another way of companies ripping people off. The fact of the matter is that the technology is identical and its only an enforced software limitation. This is so that people simply cant buy games cheap online from anywhere in the world, which in turn puts up profits for MS.
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Old 09-25-2009, 11:53 AM
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According to Microsoft, they use three game regions (not to be confused with DVD regions):

NTSC: North America and South America (United States, Canada, Mexico, Chile, and Brazil)

NTSC-J: Asia (Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan)

PAL: Europe, South Africa, India, Australia, and New Zealand

(In case you didn't know, the terms NTSC and PAL usually refer to TV systems.)

So yes, an Australian XBOX can play the European version of the game, but unfortunately those of us with NTSC-J region XBOXs can't. Which totally sucks, since I haven't been able to find any information about a possible NTSC-J release.

I hated DVD region encoding (and happily hacked my old DVD players to get around it), and think this region encoding for XBOX games is ridiculous as well. PS3 games DON'T use this system -- their games are all region-free.
So it's very likely we might never see it? If so, looks like I'll be forced to get heroes over europe instead.
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