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April 3rd, 2008 @ 05:36
SCEA has confirmed that the new PlayStation Store, launching later this month, won’t be region-locked.
A rep told Gaming-Age, that “no changes to the store will be made as part of this revamp relating to region locking”.
Still waiting on an official release date and other details about how the new Store and its related Firmware 2.30 update will be delivered, but it should all happen very soon.
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April 3rd, 2008 at 5:45 am
So I’ll be able to buy what is now called ‘US content’ with my Euro credit card? That’s great.
April 3rd, 2008 at 5:49 am
Hold on, with the Store right now you can’t run US DLC on a PAL console. So if you buy a US version of a game, PAL DLC won’t work with it.
So if no changes have been made, surely that means that it is indeed effectively still region-locked?
April 3rd, 2008 at 5:51 am
DLC might be, but stuff like Pain etc might be available to ‘us’ at the same time it becomes available to ‘them’.
April 3rd, 2008 at 6:32 am
As is stands now you can download all the free content (demos) you want but you can’t pay for anything without a US Credit Card.
There has only been a couple of demos released that haven’t worked on PAL systems.
April 3rd, 2008 at 7:10 am
Use entropay and set up a virtual US credit card. Works like a treat for me Rock Band DLC
April 3rd, 2008 at 7:24 am
From what he says, it sounds more like “the new stores will operate exactly like the old stores” rather than “we’re having a single store for everyone”.