You will need a unique e-mail for each account, even if it’s for a different region, and as you may assume your home address won’t cut it outside of your home region. The easiest and best way to sign up for an account is via a web browser, especially if it supports translation (like Google Chrome) and then just translate your way into filling everything out. In addition, some US credit cards can work with the UK store, but I prefer to do all my console digital shopping – home store or otherwise – via prepaid cards. Sure, the currency is much more expensive with the pound trouncing the US dollar, but it’s no harm in having an account you may never use.
Those of you who want to overpay for the exceptionally rare can also get your hands on PC-Engine CD titles (like Valis) or SuperGrafx games for less than $10 as well. A good example is the Japan only title DoDonPachi that will cost a pretty penny to import but runs ¥600 (about $6) on the PSN store alongside the Capcom classic that never saw a digital release in the US Rival Schools (known on the Japanese PSN as Legion of Heroes) for the same price (it’ll run you $50+ in the US and given it’s a fighting game you don’t need to know Japanese). Japanese PSN: This is because Japan not only has the most robust catalog, but often times the retro games you may want (PS1, Turbografx-16/PC-Engine/SuperGrafx, arcade) games that sell for large amounts of money in the US or foreign markets are super cheap here.This is especially useful for you UK and Australia gamers who want the lucrative titles that never made it to your store, for whatever reason. More importantly, it has the cheapest prices among most of the PSN stores and it’s quite easy and inexpensive to get your hands on codes.
First off, it tends to have a decent set of all software released (provided that the game had a US release) and dabbles a bit in imports. US PSN: If you don’t live in the US, and especially if you know English, there are large benefits to this store.
Perhaps you don’t know how to create a PSN for another country or perhaps you don’t know the benefits, well this little article will assist you in making the proper decision. The best benefit of a PSN account on multiple consoles is that all accounts on that console can share installed games, so I purchase a game on my Japanese PSN only to use it on my American account for the sake of trophies and keeping my friends informed as to what I’m playing. With the average Playstation 3 being able to tether up to 5 PSN accounts, I have chosen to dedicate one to my home base PSN, three to outside territories, and the final one to guests in my house. Creating a PSN is not a difficult task, however it can be a challenge without knowing the language, written or otherwise, of the territory you seek and also knowing what you will and won’t gain from each. We so very often recommend our listeners/viewers/readers get a foreign PSN because it’s so “easy”, but I figured with this morning’s news of Shadow Tower coming to the US PSN later today and the massive amount of games I purchase on the various PSN stores that it was high time to make it easy for you.