Quote Originally Posted by JKTrix View Post
The PS3 isn't region free. Asia and the US are going to be in the same 'Game Region', while Europe is still separate. US and Asia both use NTSC type TVs while Europe is still PAL.

I'm not sure if the PS3 will actually be locked down so that PAL PS3s can't take NTSC games, but it sure would confuse the system if there wasn't some kind of system in place so that it knows to re-translate the data appropriately.
I don't know anybody in this country who doesn't own an NTSC-capable TV. My own TV is nearly 15 years old and can display NTSC. And Sony have explicity stated that there will be no region coding for games (Though it will exist for movies) on the PS3.