Being in NA, are there any caveats to ordering digitally through other regions?
Will the games show up on my normal account even though I access a different store to purchase?
Also I have eshop credit on my NA account ready to go, I'm assuming that wouldn't work if I tried to purchase on another store?
Yes you can play games with any account. If you use one account and change region, and then change back it still shows as purchased.
So e.g you switch from US to AUS buy the game, and then switch back to US it shows as purchased on the US store.
You can also re-download while set to US. I've tried this myself, i.e changed from UK to South Africa, bought game, changed back to UK and re-downloaded.
If you create an additional account, it can be played with any account on the console
And no you can't transfer credit, infact you need to have a zero balance in order to change regions.
Your choice at this stage is to create another account and buy from there, or just wait if you want to use your current balance to buy the game.
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