Yes, The Uncharted Demo Is Region Locked

If you're in the PAL or Asian territories, you may have discovered that your 1.2 GB download of the brand new Uncharted: Drake's Fortune demo won't @!#?@!ing play on your PlayStation 3.

Kotaku contacted Sony Computer Entertainment America who confirmed that the US version "does not allow for cross-region play" and that "the Japanese and PAL demo will both be released soon.

[KS1985]

How long, cause if this S##t keeps up, I'm considering buying an Xbox 360, sure some console still suffer Red Eye, but there game and demos come out, on time.

[ruibing]

It's just a demo, what's the big deal? EU get Singstar earlier than the US, so I don't know why they are complaining.

[hazeblaze]

Their demo did come out on time you nitwit! Europe was not supposed to receive it today. The U.S. was and did! It's freakin awesome. Just be patient and wait for it. You guys have alway gotten games later than we have (since the N64 & PS1), you should be used to it by now so get over it.

[b777conehead]

unchartered is going to be released in the us first why not get the demo first. you will get the demo soon

[MK_Red]

WTF!? PS3 games were supposed to be region free or at least their demos were.

[Ghoul]

yeah its awefull isnt it :(

[pwnsause]

i think the reason why they locked it is because of the high demand of the GT5 JP demo, which means the store was getting slow.

[daflint]

Hey lets make a console that have a store that differs from city to city, but when we promote it we say its region free. But then we send some demos to city A, and three years later to city B. And when we are in deep crisis due to people not buying it we differs the stores more by making demos region locked.

Shiat, thats a great ideá. Anyone in on it?

[hazeblaze]

Sony said from the very beginning that we're not supposed to d/l content from the stores of other regions.... What's silly is that you guys are getting mad b/c you can't do something that you weren't supposed to be doing in the first place!

[lim_ryan]

asian ps3 can play the demo?

[dhammalama]

I'm in taiwan. It doesn't work for me.

[TheMART]

So the PS3 isn't region free anymore?

[the_bebop]

That better be sarcasem. It is only the Demo that is region locked not the game.

[Whoooop]

Marty is teasing us because Uncharted is kind of a soft spot for him..

That's why he is around every Uncharted related news, because he loves the game and he knows is yet another PS3 AAA game in less than a year...

WOW you gotta love it right? :)

[TheMART]

Whooopdiedo

Well you know I said Uncharted is the only exclusive AAA game over 90% average review scores indeed. I said that already a half year ago or so.

Seems that I'll be right here. Ratchet & Clank have dropped under 90% at both Metacritic and Gamerankings.

Kind of funny, many Sony fangirls didn't believe me when I said I've seen and played the games in Leipzig, and it confirmed my expectations on many of those so called 'killer apps' that got just low or good scores, but no killer app great big hits.

SO yeah. This game is nice. But it's not enough to pay 400 or 500 Euro for.

[Skerj]

This better not become a trend.

[xg-ei8ht]

Its nothing to do with being a trend, granted, they should have released to all in each terrority, but as it is, everyone is trying to d/l usa etc. Its clogging up the system.

Dam you should have seen all the servers when bioshock,crysis came on on pc demo wise. Slow as hell and some didn't work at all 100%.

Thats what the problem is.

[Darkiewonder]

They got's something to tell people now [Goes back to play Uncharted Demo]

But it's funny though. I mean, they have English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Nederland, and French Tracks in there. O.o

But then again. it's just snippets here and there when people scream at Drake but still.

[b777conehead]

the game having selectional language is not what this is about.number 1 will clog the us store connection wise.number 2 released in the us first.number 3 its in the Sony tos that you will not have accounts in other reigns.that your account will be in your own region.

[IRONMAN_X_357]

ARE YOU STUPID

[gamesblow]

Don't blame Sony, blame your slefish ass selves. Remember the WARHAWK beta? I do.. you SLOP DONGs all raced and rushed to break the rules and ruin the experience for us all who were actually invited and thus they ended it a week early. I'm glad Sony's doing this now. It serves you impatient SMACKS right.

Keep in mind not all Sony's IP are region locked...

[GodofPeace]

would have crashed like it did today

[kewlkat007]

On another note

The "lighting" in this game is ridonculous...

I got used to the aiming a lil bit even though I hate PS3 and shooting games because of the controller.

The jumping in this game is fairly accurate. The water fall/water looked amazing on my set. Except I notice that there was some times when a horizontal line went through the top on my screen, well its very fast , I'm not sure what that is, almost like a cut.

This game is looking good, it won't be a first day buy for me as I have too many game son my plater.

Anyhow back to Eternal Sonata and Folklore.

[kornbeaner]

They did the same thing with GT5: prolouge. I downloaded it, played for about 5 mins turned it off came back to it the next day and all I would get is some car gallery show. I can't play the game anymore so I just deleted it anyway. O'well no biggie I got tired of GT after GT3. But yeah that suck that a game this great has to be put on region lock. I don't mind sharing the wealth with our neighbors.

[The Wood]

and ill be kooler than i am at the moment. luckily i have a few games to play right about now. I suppose its not the end of the world. Im sure sony will look at this and see that things like this should be dealt with on a global scale instead or regionally. I hope it wont be like this when killzone or metal gear comes out. could you imagine the uproar?

[hazeblaze]

Things like this have never been dealt with globally... that's the thing. Not any gen, hardly on any format. That's why the outcry is so freakin ridiculous. You guys are acting as if this is something new!

When has EU EVER received a demo the same as NA. NA & EU have always missed out on content released in Japan. This has been the case since the original NES. It's a great game and I understand everyone wanting to play it... but you guys will probably have it next week & the full game will be out over there in a month. In the meantime, there are plenty of other games & demos to enjoy.

[DrWan]

Why such a big reaction over something so minor, they are right about a minority of vocal group online making alot of noise. Not a big deal guys, the demo is coming to other regions soon anyways, and it's a stupid demo.

[scrillakiller]

uncharted really shows what they mean by playing beyond.it was the most immersive expirience.trust me if this is any hint of whats to come.xbox owners will be real jelous and very soon.the demo was the #hit.ive never seen anything like it ever!!!WOW WOW WOW!!!!!!just looking at the trees and his movements were freakin amazing.gears has nothing on this game people.the cell is real!!!!!!!!i almost felt as if i was him!great great!!!!!basically what im saying is ps3 is making the xbox look like a last gen system with updated graphics.people honestly u need to play this