For the longest time I was strictly a PS3/PS4 console owner simply because I was living overseas (I'm a DoD civilian), and when I was living and working in Germany when the PS4 was released, that was the only console that was dual-voltage that you could purchase on-post at the Power Zone (basically, the US military version of Best Buy overseas) that I could safely plug into the electrical socket in my downtown German apartment...all you needed was one of those cheap plastic thingies that cost like $2. And of course, I'm a civvie so I was ineligible to live in the barracks (which all come with both 120/220 outlets). And I wasn't about to purchase European versions of any console, for various reasons.
Strangely enough, the North American versions of the PS3/PS4 were NEVER advertised as dual-voltage (the box label stated 120 ONLY), but I can indeed confirm they were dual-voltage machines and worked perfectly fine plugged into a 220 socket.
A few people made the mistake of not reading the fine print, and therefore fried their Wii-Us or Xbox 360s they purchased on-base or brought with them to Europe from the states without using one of those annoying 50-pound transformers before plugging them into a European outlet.
This generation I went with the Xbox Series X, and I'm sticking with it since they are dual-voltage. So when the time comes I get another overseas assignment, no need to worry.
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