Hello everyone,
It has been a while since I've been on but I'll cut the formalities for now and get to the point. my wife wants this... BAD. So, what could the issue be? Well, we live in the U.S. Our current dominating video game retailer (Game Stop) does not offer this particular edition- they have a special edition but it does not contain the shines that she wants. I have been doing some research today and I am getting some half or suspect information. I have decided to plead to some people I trust so, here are my questions:
(1) Living in America, the format of our media is NTSC. However, European (including UK) games are in the PAL format. From what I have found, I believe that my US PS3 is capable of playing PAL format games- as long as I play them in HD. Apparently PAL SD resolution is 576i compared to our inferior 480i resolution (go figure, even their low-grade TV is better :P). So, my wife wants this game and I want a new TV to bask in my PS3's HD glory- this might work out well for the both of us. Anyway, the question is "is this true?" Will I be able to play this game on my US PS3? I was kind of worried when I looked at the Play.com website on this product and saw "Region PAL: Will play on UK and European Playstation3 only".
(2) My second question (if anyone knows)- "is it possible to get PLAY.com to ship to North America?" I crawled their site and they state that they offer free shipping to select countries outside the UK. However, I could not find pricing for shipping to North America. I'd hate for this to put a big fat X on my plans, perhapses I could work out a 3rd party deal with someone if that was the case?
I know I have a lot of bothers and sisters across the waters on this forum and I hope you guys can help me out. I'd really like to know this stuff before I go dropping $120.00 on a game... especially considering I'm buying MW2: Prestige in the same month. :hmm:
Thanks in advance
It has been a while since I've been on but I'll cut the formalities for now and get to the point. my wife wants this... BAD. So, what could the issue be? Well, we live in the U.S. Our current dominating video game retailer (Game Stop) does not offer this particular edition- they have a special edition but it does not contain the shines that she wants. I have been doing some research today and I am getting some half or suspect information. I have decided to plead to some people I trust so, here are my questions:
(1) Living in America, the format of our media is NTSC. However, European (including UK) games are in the PAL format. From what I have found, I believe that my US PS3 is capable of playing PAL format games- as long as I play them in HD. Apparently PAL SD resolution is 576i compared to our inferior 480i resolution (go figure, even their low-grade TV is better :P). So, my wife wants this game and I want a new TV to bask in my PS3's HD glory- this might work out well for the both of us. Anyway, the question is "is this true?" Will I be able to play this game on my US PS3? I was kind of worried when I looked at the Play.com website on this product and saw "Region PAL: Will play on UK and European Playstation3 only".
(2) My second question (if anyone knows)- "is it possible to get PLAY.com to ship to North America?" I crawled their site and they state that they offer free shipping to select countries outside the UK. However, I could not find pricing for shipping to North America. I'd hate for this to put a big fat X on my plans, perhapses I could work out a 3rd party deal with someone if that was the case?
I know I have a lot of bothers and sisters across the waters on this forum and I hope you guys can help me out. I'd really like to know this stuff before I go dropping $120.00 on a game... especially considering I'm buying MW2: Prestige in the same month. :hmm:
Thanks in advance
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