If I buy a Japanese PS3, will it work in North America?

Question

I'm looking to buy one. Can I change the language on the console? Will everything work fine, like the games and the online play?
Please answer this, no answers such as "Just buy an american one" because there is a certain one that's only in Japan I plan on buying.

Answer 1

the only problem that you have got with a japanese ps3 is that it wont play region 1 dvd's which are american dvd's, it will only play european and japanese dvd's which are region 2 but it will play region A blu-rays which are a american and japanese,,



the japanese uses NTSC-J while american its NTSC the only difference is



Only Japan's variant "NTSC-J" is slightly different: in Japan, black level and blanking level of the signal are identical (at 0 IRE), as they are in PAL, while in American NTSC, black level is slightly higher (7.5 IRE) than blanking level. Since the difference is quite small, a slight turn of the brightness knob is all that is required to correctly show the "other" variant of NTSC on any set as it is supposed to be; most watchers might not even notice the difference in the first place. The channel encoding on NTSC-J differs slightly from NTSC-M. In particular, the Japanese VHF band runs from channels 1-12 while the American VHF band uses channels 2-13.



the only other thing is that a japanese ps3 menu will just be in japanese and im not sure if you will be able to change the language due to its meant for the japanese people

Answer 2

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Answer 3

The Japanese use a different power source so you probably won't be able to directly plug it into the American outlets

Answer 4

Actually it will work with any game,But the catch is PSmove games,I dont know what so different but i do know it says you have to update before playing ANY PSmove And or 3D games. Other than that,I dont really have much info on it...Oh,and it wont play very little games. (im not speaking sizes -__-)

Answer 5

Yeah but be sure to get a power cord converter but im not sure for online, it should work though. For games it doesn't matter i bought a hk disc for my canadian one, works great

Answer 6

It will only play Japanese region discs.