The Old Skool Cult of Kefka, bitches!

[Jin]

PS3s are $600 in Australia? Really? A standard PS3 is only $399 here and our dollars are worth about .80 of a US dollar.

They just don't want people to play video games over there do they?

To answer your question, PS3s are region free as far as games go (so long as you have an HDTV as PAL standard definition TVs are something like 576i instead of 480i), but from what I've read, there's no mods available to crack DVD or Blu-ray region codes on it. I'll keep looking though.

Even without it, you may want to pick at least one of the consoles up sometime. I'm not sure which you'd like better though, so that battle's up to you.

[Furore]

PS3s are $600 in Australia? Really? A standard PS3 is only $399 here and our dollars are worth about .80 of a US dollar.

They just don't want people to play video games over there do they?

To answer your question, PS3s are region free as far as games go (so long as you have an HDTV as PAL standard definition TVs are something like 576i instead of 480i), but from what I've read, there's no mods available to crack DVD or Blu-ray region codes on it. I'll keep looking though.

Even without it, you may want to pick at least one of the consoles up sometime. I'm not sure which you'd like better though, so that battle's up to you.

The price of a secondhand 40gb PS3 at ebgames in Australia is $499. The one I got, a new 80gb model is $699, so approx $700.

I know there are ways to play pirated 360 games at this point though Microsoft bans their users from xbox live and I believe it to only be a matter of time until blu-ray games are cracked somehow.

Also, we get the 'megadrive collection' and I'd prefer to wait for it as it's what I knew more often then not as I only ever imported games not released in AU for my genesis. Chances are there'll be no difference bar packaging and one or two minor details, but just in case I'd wait the extra week or two.

On that same note, I've been currently playing Phantasy Star II on the PSP's Megadrive collection.