PS Vita help

[junny1]

Hi Everyone

I am looking at getting a PS Vita but was looking at the choice of games in the Playstation Asia - Singapore PS Vita games and they are very limited.

I read somewhere about changing the Asia PSN to US PSN?

Can someone help me find my way around this how i can play better games?

 

[insanel]

register a us psn account.

 

[PierceLee]

Hi Everyone

I am looking at getting a PS Vita but was looking at the choice of games in the Playstation Asia - Singapore PS Vita games and they are very limited.

I read somewhere about changing the Asia PSN to US PSN?

Can someone help me find my way around this how i can play better games?

You cannot change a PSN account from one region to another. You need to create a separate account in US. Contents you own on one region does not get carried to another, they are totally separate. Same for trophies you earned. So starting a new account to play means starting trophies from zero.

Remember, the Vita is single account only (not like PS4 and PS3). So if your Vita is now set to your SG account, you have to reformat the Vita (sync all your trophies first), then register it to the new US account. If you own any digital games on the SG account, your US account cannot download/play them. If you own any games on physical game card, you can still play them on the US account (but you cannot continue the progress from SG save file, have to start new game). If you want to switch back to SG account, you have to reformat again. If you have 2 memory cards (one for each account), you still cannot just swap the cards, have to reformat the Vita itself too to re-register it to an account.

 

[junny1]

thanks, but do you guys recommend to register US PSN account , for a new console buyer like me?

And how do i register for a new US psn account? I read a few threads on this but it seems abit complicated. Please help?

Do you know what is the price of the console sold at TOG?

 

[junny1]

Hi Everyone

I am looking at getting a PS Vita but was looking at the choice of games in the Playstation Asia - Singapore PS Vita games and they are very limited.

I read somewhere about changing the Asia PSN to US PSN?

Can someone help me find my way around this how i can play better games?

UP please help?

 

[junny1]

thanks, but do you guys recommend to register US PSN account , for a new console buyer like me?

And how do i register for a new US psn account? I read a few threads on this but it seems abit complicated. Please help?

Do you know what is the price of the console sold at TOG?

UP please help?

 

[PierceLee]

thanks, but do you guys recommend to register US PSN account , for a new console buyer like me?

And how do i register for a new US psn account? I read a few threads on this but it seems abit complicated. Please help?

Do you know what is the price of the console sold at TOG?

To register new US psn account and add wallet credit (you have to buy US psn cards, they don't accept SG credit card or SG paypal account), see the first 2 posts here: http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/console-gaming-383/game-deals-5349752.html
Look at the "About digital purchase from another region's PSN store" section.

Whether to use US or SG psn account, depends...

- Are you going to buy more physical games? Physical can sell after playing, can lend to friends. Digital has a lot more games than physical though.

- If you are buying more digital games, US psn is definitely a better choice as they run new sale every week. SG psn can wait long long then got one lousy sale. And US psn will do price drop of games regularly, SG psn keeps the same price as day 1 even after many years.

- Are you going to play Chinese language or Japanese language games? US psn store will not have these contents, they are English only. You can find some Chinese and Japanese games on physical cards in local game shops, but they tend to bring in less. Go check out a few game shops, see what physical games they have (actually they tend not to stock up much vita games).

- If you don't care about trophies and only want to play games from both SG and US, it is still possible to use 2 accounts, just buy 2 memory cards, 1 for each. Each time you want to swap, remove the memory card, reformat the vita, put in the other card. After that, you do need to go thru some customisation, like setting wifi, date/time, moving your menu items around etc. Probably takes 15 min to do. Any downloaded games will still be on their respective memory card, so no need to download again. But it's still tedious.

Generally, I'd say US is better, but it really depends on each person's preferences (and whether comfortable with buying psn card to top up wallet every time). (Actually now I think Canada is even better, but nevermind, don't want to rock the boat further )

 

[qwertified]

Depends on the kind of games you wanna play. Maybe its easier to look through the current vita library online, type out the whole list of games appealing to you, and see if those are available in asia psn. If have then most probably asia psn is enough.

Also depends on whether you prefer physical games or digital games. Local stores sell games of R3 version mostly which is asia region, so if they contain dlc, you need asia psn to redeem them (i said mostly, certain titles they can carry multiple region or just a certain foreign region, if u dunno how to check better ask the salesperson). Digitally, us psn would generally be better, the us psn store has a larger library (unless you comparing with jp psn, its not the same as asia psn), and usually have better sales.