What is a region locked console?

Gaming Terminologies

A console region lock prevents a product or service from being used outside of a specific region. This can be enforced through physical, technological, or unintentional means.

List of Region Locked Consoles

PlayStation
PlayStation 2
Nintendo GameCube
Xbox 360
Nintendo Wii
Nintendo 2DS/3DS/3DS XL/New 3DS/New 3DS XL
Nintendo Wii U
NES/Famicom
Atari 7800 (except backwards compatibility with 2600)
SNES/Super Famicom
Nintendo 64 (can become region free with quick mod to the cartridge slot)
Sega Master System Mark III (Japan only)
Sega Genesis/MegaDrive
Sega CD
Sega 32X
Sega Dreamcast
Sega Nomad
Indrema Portal

Region free

GameBoy
Sega Game Gear
GameBoy Color
GameBoy Advance
Nintendo DS/DSi/DSi XL (With the exception of DSi only games)
PSP (With the exception of UMD Movies)
PlayStation 3 (Except for Persona 4 Arena and Way of the Samurai 3)
PS Vita
PlayStation 4 (Except digital games)
Microsoft Xbox
Xbox One Xbox Series X and S
Nintendo Switch
PlayStation 5
Atari 2600 (NTSC games can display wrong colors, slow speed and sound on PAL systems and vice versa.)
NES-101 SG-1000
Atari 5200
Atari Jaguar and Jaguar CD
Atari Lynx
Sega Saturn (Japan only)
Phillips CDi
Panasonic/Sanyo 3DO
Neo Geo Pocket and Color
Microsoft Windows/PC (However digital content and online games from online stores such as Steam and Epic Games can be region locked)
Phones/Mobile Devices
Virtual Boy
Apple PC (since Apple II)
Neo Geo, Neo Geo CD, and Neo Geo CDX
Magnavox Odyssey and II
Intellivision
ColecoVision
NECTurbografx/PC Engine CDs (excluding system cards)
Amiga/Amiga CD32
Atari VCS
Net Yaroze (PS1 dev kit)
Vectrex Atari ST
Commodore 64
Pioneer Laseractive
All western Masters System consoles (US/Europe/Brazilian/Australian are universal, but a tiny handful of games either don’t play or are glitchy on a US system)
Sega Naomi
M.A.M.E. / Arcade Machines
Fairchild Channel F
Plug N Play
Sega Pico
Hyperscan