Will my US/N.American Xbox One play International Games?

My parents are currently traveling to multiple countries. Currently in China, and able to purchase legitimate Xbox One games (both major US titles and local). They will also be traveling to Thailand, Brazil, Australia and New Zealand.

I am curious, will my Xbox One system support playing games purchased overseas? Will games purchased in China play on my Region 1 Xbox One, or from any other country outside of where it was purchased?

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US Live Gold outside US

Greetings!

Although I live outside US, my Xbox One account location is in US with english idiom. I would like to know if I may subscribe for an US Live Gold membership (U$ 59,99/year) using my international credit card living outside US. The main reason for that is
because I like to play my games in english, and, as far as I am concerned, having the console with an american account is the only way to access dashboard and games in english.

Best regards,

Vitor

 

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I'm just going to use my internal 500gb and wait for a slim model of the xbox one with larger hard drive

 

Is it fully supported? Like Halo 5 from china, full xbox live multiplayer support?

 

There is no regional lock on Xbox games, As for games bought from certain countries its your risk if they are original xbox games or illegal copies.

 

Chinese xbox games & xbox ones are the only ones that are region locked

 

Take a look at the third paragraph here:
www.techinasia.com/chinas-xbox-one-and-games-will-be-totally-region-locked

As Badger said, Chinese Xbox Ones and Xbox One Games are region locked, so you won't be able to play Chinese-purchased games on a non-Chinese Xbox One, and cannot play non-Chinese games on a Chinese Xbox One.

Also, just as a heads-up, be wary of the regional language settings - you have an Xbox One set to an English-speaking region, but that doesn't necessarily automatically mean that games bought from a non-English-speaking country will automatically play in
English. Some games are localized depending on the area where they are sold, so even if your Region's language is English, the game may still play in the native language (unless the game itself has a language control.)

As an example, on 360, some games had menu options to change the language, but on many EA games, the language of the game menu, subtitles, etc. were limited to the country from which it was purchased. I know some folks who purchased the Mass Effect series
from a store which didn't realize they were the Italian versions, and when they played them, there was no way to switch the language (despite the store trying really hard to help them, giving them the Italian words to look for in the menus to search for language
settings, etc.)

So, long story short, MOST games from most countries (including the US) are Region-free, but caveat emptor, because you never know if the game will be localized with no language menu.

 

Thanks guys for the info on China.

 

It seems this lock was removed in April 2015, I think official confirmation is needed.

 

Good find, Yapper! It looks like the consoles from China ARE unlocked now, but it sounds as though games purchased in China still require activation/verification, and will be altered from their International versions.

www.techinasia.com/xbox-regionfree-china-report

Still unable to find any official press releases to this effect, which is odd!

 

Yes I think the best thing is don't buy games from China.