Moving to Oz - Console Advice

[thumper]

OK guys, so I have been lucky enough to have been offered a scholarship to study in Brisbane, Australia & all being well with visas me & the missus will be moving out there march '08 for the following 3-4yrs .

Obviously I won't be able to get by without my toys, so I am thinking of the options concerning shipping my consoles (360,PS3,Wii).
If I understand correctly the UK and Oz share the same region so games bought there or vica-versa shouldn't be a problem. Also, as I'm shipping other stuff the cost of shipping them shouldn't be a great deal.
On the other hand does anyone know if any warranties will be international - this is probably most important for the 360, for which I have extended my warranty for 3 years, being on my 3rd unit now .
If this won't transfer out there I might be best selling the unit here and just shipping games / peripherals & buying a new one out there, if I do this does anyone know if the warranty will transfer to the new owner?
In terms of the PS3 - I have a 60Gb model which TBH I never play on, although I might get Uncharted given the comments here, perhaps I could sell that here and buy a 40gb out there for MGS4, GT5, FF & LBP.

Ideally I don't want this to cost me a a lot as the move/visas/medicals/initial fees are really stacking up & I'm going back to being a stinkin student again(albeit a funded one).

Any thoughts/opinions/advice on this matter would be much appreciated. Oh and yes I know I'm going to Oz so I should enjoy that rather than worrying about gaming - don't worry I will, but there will always be time for games, plus xbox live is seems like a pretty cheap way to maintain abuse between friends worldwide

 

[thedoc46]

OK guys, so I have been lucky enough to have been offered a scholarship to study in Brisbane, Australia & all being well with visas me & the missus will be moving out there march '08 for the following 3-4yrs .

Obviously I won't be able to get by without my toys, so I am thinking of the options concerning shipping my consoles (360,PS3,Wii).
If I understand correctly the UK and Oz share the same region so games bought there or vica-versa shouldn't be a problem. Also, as I'm shipping other stuff the cost of shipping them shouldn't be a great deal.
On the other hand does anyone know if any warranties will be international - this is probably most important for the 360, for which I have extended my warranty for 3 years, being on my 3rd unit now .
If this won't transfer out there I might be best selling the unit here and just shipping games / peripherals & buying a new one out there, if I do this does anyone know if the warranty will transfer to the new owner?
In terms of the PS3 - I have a 60Gb model which TBH I never play on, although I might get Uncharted given the comments here, perhaps I could sell that here and buy a 40gb out there for MGS4, GT5, FF & LBP.

Ideally I don't want this to cost me a a lot as the move/visas/medicals/initial fees are really stacking up & I'm going back to being a stinkin student again(albeit a funded one).

Any thoughts/opinions/advice on this matter would be much appreciated. Oh and yes I know I'm going to Oz so I should enjoy that rather than worrying about gaming - don't worry I will, but there will always be time for games, plus xbox live is seems like a pretty cheap way to maintain abuse between friends worldwide

TV system and power is the same as the UK, so you should be ok.. But isn't the dvd region 4? so none of the dvd's you will buy or rent out there will work.

PERSONALLY... being that it's christmas I would sell everything on eBay and buy it all again when you are out there. That way you are guaranteed to have warranty and zero compatibility issues.. That's exactly what I done when I moved to the USA. mind you the TV system is different and the voltage is 110v as appose to 240..

 

[Zip]

We are PAL, Region 4, 240 volts

Hope that helps

 

[DeFrEaTs]

Slightly different situation, but I moved to Japan a fwe months ago. Before moving here I sold　ｍｙ xbox, ｔｖ, games etc but kept the xbox HDD. I managed to buy a new white PS3 for about half the price I sold my xbox for, so bought a nice new HD tv as well.

My suggestion　is to do the same as Australia is pretty cheap too from what I hear. Shipping the consoles would be a right pain and I would worry about them being damaged etc. A friend of mine shipped some stuff to Aus recently (albeit via ship not airmail) but it took 15 weeks and cost a fortune!

 

[ste_bla]

My suggestion　is to do the same as Australia is pretty cheap too from what I hear. Shipping the consoles would be a right pain and I would worry about them being damaged etc. A friend of mine shipped some stuff to Aus recently (albeit via ship not airmail) but it took 15 weeks and cost a fortune!

Or a) take it with you on the plane b) go via excess baggage cost me £20 for a SFF PC and arrived 2 days after we landed in NZ

Oh and ofcourse i would take 15 weeks if its going by ship!

Laslty NZ & Aus are both PAL so the game do work, DVD's seem a little hit and miss