If you’d planned on importing a copy of Persona 4 Arena for PlayStation 3, then you might want to start making alternative arrangements. Atlus USA has confirmed that the Arc System Works developed title will be region locked, which is unusual for a PS3 game.
A representative said on the company’s official forums: “I certainly can't offer details as to why, but there might be an official response at some point.”
The game’s due out later this month in Japan, with a North American release set to follow on 7th August. European publisher PQube has promised that it’s working towards a 31st August launch date overseas. Let's hope it hits it.
[source atlus.com]
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There's no Atlus Europe, right? Maybe they just don't want to harm the European publisher and decided to make sure that people don't have the choice to import (after all, sometimes it's cheaper anyway). Whatever the reason, sounds like a stupid decision. One of the biggest advantages of the PS3 is the fact that it is not region locked.
What I want to know is: how?
I know this is a PS site but I wanna know if this locked for 360 as well.
This is a really strange decision. I wonder why they decided to do this. I'm glad that this game is coming to the US and I hope that you folks in Europe get it too.
Well that a strange thing to happen to a PS game. Are there any other region locked games on the PS3? Making me wonder now.
@Mickeymac: What do you mean, how? The PS3 has always been CAPABLE of region locking...hence every retail game having its region printed on the packaging. They just don't usually make use of it. I'm far more curious as to why they're doing so NOW. As far as I know, it's the very first PS3 game to use region locking...odd, to say the least...
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