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The PAL region (PAL being short for Phase Alternating Line) is a television publication territory that covers most of Asia, Africa, Europe, South America and Oceania. It is so named because of the PAL television standard traditionally used in those regions, as opposed to the NTSC standard traditionally used in Japan and the United States, which both produce a large portion of the world's televisions. Most video games designated as part of the region will not play on NTSC-U/C or NTSC-J region consoles because of regional lockout. While this is the most common occurrence, some Xbox and Xbox 360 games are region-free encoded, since Microsoft's policy is for publishers to decide. Sony has a similar policy for the PlayStation Portable, but most publishers choose not to encode a region on their UMD games. With the exception of ''Persona 4 Arena'', PlayStation 3 Blu-ray Disc games are region-free. The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One are completely region free, allowing usage in all standards regions, although the Xbox One was originally going to have region locking before changing this due to consumer outcry.〔http://kotaku.com/514419715〕 All Nintendo home consoles have region locking either by software encoding or physical differences in media and consoles. In contrast, most Nintendo handhelds are not region-locked, along with most other historical systems (Neo Geo Pocket, Sega Game Gear, etc.), except partially for the Nintendo DSi and fully for the Nintendo 3DS which features region locking for the DSi and 3DS specific software respectively (for example, DSiWare games and apps). Australia uses PAL version games only for the Wii, PlayStation 3 and sometimes the Xbox 360. Nintendo DS games in Australia use either their own localisations or localisations from North America to reduce release date delays on games, but some distributors use European versions as they are fully aligned to a certain European subsidiary (e.g. Konami and Capcom of Europe) for unknown reasons. As most hand-held consoles use their own proprietary display system, incompatibilities of differing TV systems are not relevant. However, the same regions often exist for localisation and distribution purposes. ==Release area== The scope of the PAL region varies with systems and publishers. The following countries and areas are normally included in a PAL region release: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * (with PAL-SECAM TV) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Along with other Middle Eastern, African, and European countries. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「PAL region」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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