thelapsukainen Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 Saw this picture on Reddit and checked out the store on my own PS4 as well so I can confirm it's legit. The list of countries/regions include Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom. No idea if this is only available in EU, maybe someone from NA can check out the store on their console? The store region tab should be between PS Music and Library in the PS Store. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kittet3 Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 Doesn't look to be available for NA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NovaMateria Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 Sounds amazing but I don't see the option on my UK or Norwegian account. Is this a playstation plus exclusive option? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrakeHellsing Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 Looks like New Zealand and Australia get left out, even though we use the EU version of things too. Ah well, still a pretty cool thing to see regardless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArmoredSnowman Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 53 minutes ago, thelapsukainen said: United Kingdom. So I'm confused by this, since UK would use pounds, while most other European countries would use Euros. How would the store compensate for the two currencies? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kittet3 Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 24 minutes ago, Armored Squirrel said: So I'm confused by this, since UK would use pounds, while most other European countries would use Euros. How would the store compensate for the two currencies? I'm going to guess that you'll still need a payment method from that country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katt Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 what are those terms and conditions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dzstrpc Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 Changed from my default Swedish store to Great Britain just to see what happened. No search function. Unable to buy anything since GB is not my default store. Why am I able to browse other region stores but not able to purchase anything? Every week there's games not available in certain EU countries in the PSN Store update, why not unify the EU PSN Store instead, or even better, a Global PSN Store. USELESS FUNCTION!!! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sephiroth4424 Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 How hard would it be to buy PS points with your currency and then buy whatever you want from any psstore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dzstrpc Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 7 minutes ago, sephiroth4424 said: How hard would it be to buy PS points with your currency and then buy whatever you want from any psstore That's why I don't see the purpose of this function. You'll still need to login on your fake other-region account if you want to buy something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordguwa Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 21 minutes ago, dzstrpc said: That's why I don't see the purpose of this function. You'll still need to login on your fake other-region account if you want to buy something. another e-mail and remembering either the same password or something different. i can agree with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kittet3 Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 55 minutes ago, dzstrpc said: That's why I don't see the purpose of this function. You'll still need to login on your fake other-region account if you want to buy something. Are you not able to add a new payment type to your account and use the store? I imagine this feature is for those who move to a different country, so maybe you have to completely update your address/payment type before it lets you do anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thefourfoldroot Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 Hopefully just a step along the road to being able to change regions to Asia and US. Perhaps why Sony have been censoring to "global standards". Not sure if I would care to do this with all Japanese material censored though. Little point apart from sales. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bani24jj Posted December 15, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted December 15, 2018 I really hope that one day we can change our country account. Personally I think the function of changing psn ID is useless, but being able to change the region of your account would be awesome. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lance_87 Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 (edited) Hopefully this option will be useful for people from Italian Switzerland who could only get German-only (and censored) versions of certain games! Edited December 15, 2018 by Lance_87 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lava_Yuki Posted December 16, 2018 Share Posted December 16, 2018 I can't seem to do this on my Japanese or Irish account. I live in the UK now so would have ideally liked to change my irish account to GB, but oh well. I haven't logged in or used that account in over 2 years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheActualMeg4cy Posted December 16, 2018 Share Posted December 16, 2018 I am from Ireland and I seem to have the ability to do so. Ironic - I was living in the UK not too long ago and had hoped for this feature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenrirfeather Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 (edited) What? No Brexit jokes? \(//∇//)\♡ I wager this new addition to the PSN storefront was done in response to the new geo-blocking regulation of the EU and, therefore, applies to the 28 member states of the European Union. Also to Norway and Iceland (down to EEA agreement?). Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia happen to be missing from my drop-down menu (on the web store) but I don’t know if they have their own individual substorefronts in the first place. Sony hasn’t been - and still isn’t - blocking access to other region’s PSN stores in the casual/traditional meaning of the word, but they’ve been trying to redirect customers for years (in a multitude of ways throughout those years, actually): So, it’s likely that the new option to change the storefront wasn’t added by Sony to encourage customers from EU countries to go shop in their fellow states’ PSN stores, hence dealing with all matters related to payment is still entirely up to the customer. Edited December 20, 2018 by Fenrirfeather Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundr0wn_ Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 Has anyone tested yet how many times you can switch and if there's a downtime in between? Would like to switch to uk quickly to get my ps4 life video in english and then back to my original region Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thefourfoldroot Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 I switched once, to Spain, and couldn't search for anything as the search option wasn't available. Don't really see the point though, unless different regions get different deals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dantes_994 Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 On 12/15/2018 at 6:37 PM, thefourfoldroot said: Hopefully just a step along the road to being able to change regions to Asia and US. Perhaps why Sony have been censoring to "global standards". Not sure if I would care to do this with all Japanese material censored though. Little point apart from sales. Agreed But still it's a step in the right direction Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salima-sensei Posted December 21, 2018 Share Posted December 21, 2018 I think this is only because of the new EU Geoblocking regulation, so I don't think we will see this for other regions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amonares Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 (edited) Does that mean we (EU) can buy NA avatars now? I'd really like that Dark Souls: Remastered avatar bundle. EDIT: You can only change between EU countries and all EU countries have the same things in PS Store. Basically useless function. Edited December 28, 2018 by Dark Prince Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lance_87 Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 Not sure if it was there before but i think they added the option from the web Store from PC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IoIly Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 On 15.12.2018 at 7:06 PM, dzstrpc said: Changed from my default Swedish store to Great Britain just to see what happened. No search function. Unable to buy anything since GB is not my default store. Why am I able to browse other region stores but not able to purchase anything? Every week there's games not available in certain EU countries in the PSN Store update, why not unify the EU PSN Store instead, or even better, a Global PSN Store. USELESS FUNCTION!!! Game owners dont buy license to sell games in psn store in some regions. For example game Invoker is absent in russian store and i cant buy DLC for this game. I cant buy DLC for EndWar cause Ubisoft did not get license to sell it in my store. Sony will lose money from unification Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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