(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); According to French site PS3Gen.fr, Sony may be planning to region-restrict upcoming PS3 video games using the new 3.50 SDK.

To quote, roughly translated: "While Sony had surprised everyone by not only zoned games on PS3, unlike the PS2 or the PS1, it seems that this idea can be challenged in the near future.

Since the advent of the SDK 3.50, it is possible for official developers restrict their PlayStation 3 games at a specific region.

For information, be aware that verification of the region of the disc was in fact quietly implemented since the 3.30 firmware but was not yet usable by the studios.

Here are screenshots from a PlayStation 3 when trying to launch a drive to a "bad area"... following an audit of this same disc into console development.

If any games yet so far does this "feature", however it is likely that it will be in the coming months."
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thanks for editing it adrian <3

good information thanks you cant blame them really for doing it there trying there best to stop further hacking...ect.. but it this depends is they implement the actually region restriction so we will have to see

As if you wouldn't wanna stop that hacking ,would be dumb if you didn't or at least tried =D

nice information

Region locking game won't help stop piracy, as people from both sides of the globe are responsible for games being released online.

With games like CoD getting extremely expensive special editions, I wouldn't be surprised if such measures are only going to be used on games that will sell for a huge profit in different regions than normal editions of games.

true..............