Sony quietly gets PlayStation 3 certification in China

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http://www.blogcdn.com/es.engadget.com/media/2012/11/consolasps3china.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/2012/11/04/sony-quietly-gets-playstation-3-certification-in-china/)Ever since 2000, game consoles have effectively (if not very assertively) been banned in China. There's already been signs of a warming attitude with official plans for the Nintendo 3DS XL (http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/10/nintendo-3ds-xl-review/) coming this December, but Sony may have slipped out hints of a fuller thaw without anyone noticing until now. A Sina Weibo user just discovered that the 160GB and 320GB versions of the previous-generation PlayStation 3 (http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/playstation-3-slim-review/), the CECH-3012, passed through China Compulsory Certificate approval in July -- an odd move when the console couldn't actually go on sale in an official capacity in current conditions. Certification is still far from a guarantee that Sony will actually sell the PS3 in the country, most of all when it's a slightly outdated model (http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/08/playstation-3-review-late-2012/) of a console line that's edging ever nearer to a replacement (http://www.engadget.com/tag/ps4). The government certainly hasn't commented on what the regulatory clearance means. If it ultimately leads to more gamers in Chengdu or Shanghai, however, we're all for it.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/11/04/sony-quietly-gets-playstation-3-certification-in-china/