I don't know about the Xbox360 or the Nintendo Wii, but I do know that the PS3 has abolished the region coding.

So does that mean when games get released in the US, they'll also get released in Australia, the UK and another English speaking country at the same time?

Never. At least not anytime soon.

The 360 and and Wii still have region coding (although in the case of the 360, it's optional; a lot of games don't have it).

The only people it really effects are importers, and really really impatient people; most games make it out to Europe/Australia these days. It's not like the lonely times of the SNES or PSone where Square Enix ignored us completely :(

The 360 and and Wii still have region coding (although in the case of the 360, it's optional; a lot of games don't have it).

The only people it really effects are importers, and really really impatient people; most games make it out to Europe/Australia these days. It's not like the lonely times of the SNES or PSone where Square Enix ignored us completely :(

Haha yes, but it had it's levels of stupidity to be honest.

Germany is as next door to us as it can possibly be, though LoK: Defiance was released there three months earlier then in Holland.

Generally, Europe is always behind and behind us you Australians. I never really understood by. Yes I know that the games have to arive at the distributers. But are they ignored or something?

I also don't see why (for example) the EU versions of KH1 and FFX are different from the US versions (like no Dark Aeons for example). Why is this?

It's because we made friends with US, or at least our goofy prime minister made friends (maybe more than friends) with GWB

It's because we made friends with US, or at least our goofy prime minister made friends (maybe more than friends) with GWB

We made 'friends' with America, so our video games come out here later?

Please refrain from stupidity.

Also, Neo; all video games released in the PAL territories (the UK, Europe and Australia) are compatible with each other. So if you imported a game from Germany, it would work in your console.

In regards to FF10, that is really strange; the Dark Aeons are in my version of Final Fantasy X. It doesn't make any sense why one PAL version would be different to another.

PAL Versions (and I have no idea why Australia is PAL. Maybe 'cause we're a multicultural country) takes so long to come out because of all the different languages, mostly european, it needs to be translated into.

But because it takes longer the take out, they have the chance to fix a few things, add new things too, like did you know the US FFXII has a few extra scenes more that the Jap FFXII, because they couldn't finish a couple because of the huge demand and that they wanted to get it out on time?