Neither hardware, PS3 or 360 is region locked, and it is left up to the game publishers to region lock their titles or not. Some do, some don't. http://gaming.wikia.com/wiki/Region_Free_Xbox_360_Games A larger majority of PS3 titles however, are NOT region locked. There are some titles that are, the Motorstorm games for instance ARE. Let me correct you here. PS3 games are NOT region locked at all. Only the movies are region locked. X360 games are region locked unless the game developers did not lock it (mostly happens in multiplatform games). HOWEVER, shops in CHina tends to sell you X360 MODDED as that is their core business Your correction is wrong, there are a handful of region locked PS3 titles. It's entirely up to the developer, and it's exactly the same on the 360 only more devs have opted to lock their titles. Lol, I don't get you. Everyone even their dogs know that PS3 is basically region free. You can play R1,R2,R3 and even R4 or R2 Japan games on any PS3 in the world. The only region lock will be the DLC corresponding to the Region version of your games. E.g SFIV R2 costume DLC is not working with R1 and R3 SFIV. And this is from Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_lockout Part of the article: the PlayStation 3 is one of the few home consoles to be advertised as region-free.However, while region free for PS3 games, there is region locking for backwards compatible PS2 and PS1 games, as well as DVD and Blu-ray Disc movies. Additionally, some games separate online players per region, such as Metal Gear Solid 4 Online. A PSN store only contains content for its own country, for example the UK store will not supply you with usable map packs for your Imported US copy of Call of Duty 4. The PS3 actually supports hardware region locking for PS3 games as well, based on Blu-ray regions, but as of current it is unused and all current region lockouts and separations are about online services.