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Only 1 PSN account per Vita - Cancel your preorders :(
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we.are.the.armada
Member
Damn I hate sharing - ok, I'll buy 2 instead are you happy Sony?
DangerousDave
Member
Is not independent. There is no way of avoiding direct filesystem access if you have a easily editable memory card where you can simply dump a hack from the PC. And, of course, there is no sense in propietary cards if you allow to copy any file from the PC into Vita. Both measures are necessary, they don't have any sense if you only took one.
In a way. My problem with this basically deviates from the fact that my brother and I have and use different PSN IDs.
Although I'd love to able to digitally import JP games too.
R
Retro_
Unconfirmed Member
Wait wasn't this the same for PSP? (You could only tie it to and play games off of one account at a time)
Sorry if this was brought up earlier in the thread but I didn't want to read it if it was a bunch of overreactions
Sorry if this was brought up earlier in the thread but I didn't want to read it if it was a bunch of overreactions
fly high ~ayunite~
Member
This is kind of a good thing, I was planning on buying a 32GB memory card each for US, EU & JP but now I don't need to, so the PSVITA has suddenly become a lot cheaper for me.
Yeah, I was planning to share it with my brother.
Just sounds like it'll be a little more annoying to switch accounts. Oh well.
All my data is saved on the memory card so I won't be truly formatting and losing everything each time.
I'll still be using both my Japanese and US accounts with my Vita.
The only shame is that I can't earn trophies from JPN PSN content on my US account, which was something I had feared when the system was announced.
All my data is saved on the memory card so I won't be truly formatting and losing everything each time.
I'll still be using both my Japanese and US accounts with my Vita.
The only shame is that I can't earn trophies from JPN PSN content on my US account, which was something I had feared when the system was announced.
I doubt it. PS Vita like other portables, is by design intended for (in ideal scenarios) multiple units per household. But ps4 will be family oriented.
R
Retro_
Unconfirmed Member
How does it affect that though? Unless you and your brother really care to keep trophies separate or something
I don't even have separate PSN accounts on my PS3 for family members. We all just play whatever games we want on the main one
iceatcs
Junior Member
$380 for a device with 32GB of storage space and digital account-region locking.
Fixed
I'm sure you can play US Vita on Japanese digital content under Japanese account.
My wife and I both are looking forward to the Vita, and we both have our own trophies and accounts (and we're sure as hell not buying two of them). It didn't matter on the PSP, since no trophies, and we didn't seriously play imports very often (mainly demos that didn't need activation).
However, if one of the things the Vita can back up is whatever gets wiped when changing accounts, I don't see this as being a big problem. We generally don't go back and forth a lot on portable systems anyway. My wife only plays games she intends to platinum or 100% on her account.
Too bad she decided to try Wipeout HD on her account before implementing that policy, now I get to try and get the platinum again for her 
The difference here is that rather than deactivating content like you would on PSP, you're going to have to reset things to default settings before activating a different account.
Yeah, the system is still very much region free.
You can play any content on it with the appropriate regional account, which are always free.
Littlegator
Banned
Did you just enter the topic without reading the title... or anything but my own post?
Yes, you can play Japanese digital content on a Japanese account. You can not play US digital content on a Japanese account. You can not play Japanese digital content on a US account. You can not have more than one account.
Therefor, the device has digital content region locking.
But they can not be changed. You are locked to the digital content of the region of the account you first use, unless you want to format, redownload, and reinstall games every time you want a game of a different region.
Zoe
Member
People do care though. 20 years ago I didn't mind sharing the Gameboy with my brother, but now individual accounts are the norm.
Doesn't affect me, I only have multiple PSN accounts in my PS3 just go get early demos that aren't released over here a the same point, and I barely download them anyway these days.
While I imagine this is a problem for a number f people on here, I can't see it being a big problem for the general masses, and isn't something that can't be fixed at a later point anyway.
While I imagine this is a problem for a number f people on here, I can't see it being a big problem for the general masses, and isn't something that can't be fixed at a later point anyway.
MightyKAC
Member
I'm in that same boat as well. All of my imports were going to be physical anyway but now it means that my gf won't be able to use her account on my vita to play games on this and would have to buy her own Vita. That's the thing that irks my the most about this decision. It seems totally greed based (I.e. no system sharing you each have to buy you own). I'd imagine this sucks also for people with children who want to play on there own separate accounts (for trophies and such)on the same vita but can't unless they have their own 300$+ device.
iceatcs
Junior Member
To me, it mean you cannot play Japanese digital content on US PS Vita.
regional account locking is better wording.
No no no, all the download stuff will be on the memory card.
The games downloaded are on the memory card.
They won't get formatted.
This is just a system format of the settings which I don't give a shit about other than having to enter my wifi pw again possibly.
Littlegator
Banned
It'll still probably take a good chunk of time to format, and you'll have to do this every time you want to switch regions.
It's an entirely indefensible move on Sony's part.
Saint Gregory
Member
Nintendo's mistakes with the 3DS are mostly mindnumbing, especially when you consider how much time they had to plan the DS successor. It still seems to me that virtually everything that they've handled badly so far can be addressed with firmware updates and hardware revisions (not sure about that 2nd analog though). This region locking thing actually started with the DSi but there were so few DSi specific games very few people seemed to notice the impact. I have a feeling that it's a dead issue going forward but I'd be shocked if an account based online system and other improvements weren't already be planned for reveal at E3.
Sony's issues with Vita however, at least right now, feel like they're steming from Sony's desire to correct what they saw as obstacles to the PSP being the cash cow for them that it could have been. Whereas Nintendo's 3DS stumbles have felt mostly like short-sightedness or ignorance Sony's have all felt like efforts to wring extra profitability out of the Vita. I don't fault them for this, I mean they're a business afterall, but it's hard to imagine that the PSP would have been as successful as it is if they put it on the market with all these inconvenient features.
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
Yeah, hopefully you can keep backups of the system and switch between those. That would still be terrible, but better than having to deal with everything manually.
Sucks because I've seriously been looking into learning Japanese almost exclusively for games. Nintendo's backwards region locking policy is bad enough, but this kind of stuff being thrown on top isn't encouraging at all.
Sucks because I've seriously been looking into learning Japanese almost exclusively for games. Nintendo's backwards region locking policy is bad enough, but this kind of stuff being thrown on top isn't encouraging at all.
Because the other accounts were still stored on the system.
If I were to delete my JPN account on my PS3, I wouldn't be able to play the JPN PSN games I bought on my US account anymore.
It doesn't take very long to format a PSP's memory card, so I doubt it'll take very long to format some stored text on Vita.
It's just system settings, not a firmware reset. It's not going to take a long time.
It's just slightly annoying, but hardly a deal breaker.
I'm not going to be constantly switching, only when there's actually a game on the JPN PSN store I want to play that isn't coming to America.
Good point. They could just let us store extra accounts on memory cards, but for some reason aren't willing to...
Zoe
Member
That would make it awfully easy to sell accounts...
Yeah, ideally, it would have been like PS3 and you could log into whatever account you wanted and the system had various account profiles. (not on the memory cards, but the OS, just like PS3)
Oh well.
I'm still going to be able to enjoy whatever content I like.
Zoe
Member
But what if the seller is offering completed game saves as well?
DangerousDave
Member
FreeMufasa
Junior Member
Sonys fucked up here.
If I hadn't already canceled my preorder I would be. For the price of a Vita, a memory card, and a game I could buy 8 3DS games. I'm perfectly willing to wait Sony out on their decisions since as Charlequin pointed out, most of them can be solved by price drops or firmware updates. And considering I want more than 8 3DS games next year...
panama chief
Member
oh no.
my PERSONAL handheld gaming device cant have more than 1 account.......cmon son.
kids touch my vita and im karate kicking the shit out of them. real talk.
my PERSONAL handheld gaming device cant have more than 1 account.......cmon son.
kids touch my vita and im karate kicking the shit out of them. real talk.
blitzcloud
Banned
Not buying it for a long time due to many reasons already.
Saint Gregory
Member
That's child abuse dude, getting them in an inverted V lock should be more than enough to get the message across.
BoilersFan23
Member
I think it's more of a matter of them doing it this way:This just kills the Vita vor me
The account system on PSP was bad and I was 100% sure that Sony would fix it but this is even worse. Hell, I already created an US account and bought PS1 games just to put them on my Vita
I'm sad
-With a game console that sits at a TV, it's likely to be used by multiple people in a household, which is why you can have several accounts.
-With a handheld, it's considered to be more of a personal thing which only one person is using....that is why there's access to just one account, unless you want to re-activate. I have two PSPs where I strictly have one for my JP account, another for my US account. Like a household may have one PS3 console for the family, and 3 PSPs for each person (with their own PSN account).
Sony themselves doesn't technically want people creating different region accounts, but they aren't going to admit that. They look at it as people having just one account for their own content (in their own region)..
iceatcs
Junior Member
Ok. I think I'm not defence anything. It is bit weird when you are try to spin to negative after I explained although.
I don't really understand this. I mean, they get our money either way.
iceatcs
Junior Member
Aye I don't understand too. But it could be publishers don't like this idea, for example different publishers in both regions but same game.
boiled goose
good with gravy
Darn. :/
I thought sony was going to lead the way with region free portables and account based OS like the consoles. ...
shame.
I thought sony was going to lead the way with region free portables and account based OS like the consoles. ...
shame.