Audrey: This is a tricky area- Most video games consoles have regional encoding. The main regions are: Japan and Asia- NTSC-J, North and South America- NTSC-U, Europe, New Zealans and Australia-Pal, and China- NTSC-C. Some Regional lockouts have also been achieved with software authentication, slot/pin changes, Cartridge/case differences, and IP blocking. According to wikipedia, All playstation 3 games are region free- but some individual publishers have chosen to region lock certain games. Microsoft Xbox and Xbox360 are region locked BUT the Xbox one is not region blocked- but again individual games may be encoded. Your best bet would probably be Xbox one or playstation-3. That being said- my son regularly plays japanese games before they are made available here using computer proxy sites- that takes up a lot of computer space and he regularly deletes to make more room. Many of the international games do have different characters, content and locations so it would no doubt be a good learning experience On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 11:15 AM, Sartiaux, Audrey <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking into purchasing a big screen LCD TV and an Xbox or playstation > for students to play video games in foreign langages. I'm looking for > examples of set ups and especially name and language availability of games. > Also, let me know how you play international games on a US box or if you > had to buy a game box from other countries. > > Thank you for your help! > > Audrey > > -- > Audrey Sartiaux, Ph.D. > Director of the Language Center > Union College, Schenectady, NY > Ph: 518-388-6216 > >