With the opening of the preorders of the PS4 (that went sold out almost instantly) in Japan, Sony Released a new official FAQ to explain the consoles most relevant ins and outs, and there's one point that got a few gamers worried about the possibility of not being able to play games from regions different from their console.
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They leave the decision up to the devs and the only game that i know that was region locked on PS3 was P4 Arena. Which only hurt Atlus because Europeans were pissed off at the late release date here.
I'm hoping it'll more likely be the case for Japanese games on EU or US consoles. I plan on getting a US PS4 for use in the UK so this potential game only region locking better not screw that up or else I'll have a very sad face.
Nothing has change it's the exact same policy .
It probably wont be much of an issue because the PS4 will be in most territories by mid 2014 anyway. We know the console isn't region locked so if it turns up that a tile can't be played, we know who to blame.