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Sony: NOPE! Only One Account Per Vita
- Thread starter LiK
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You know, it's one thing for something to not be an issue for you in particular, but it's another thing entirely to insinuate that it must not be a big deal for anybody else. Monolingual Americans have no reason to be upset by this news necessarily, but there are plenty of other people in the world that this affects.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Wait, so which is it? Someone clarify for us non-European residents!
Rodney McKay
Member
I'll be there day 1
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PumpkinPie
Banned
Number of Vitas x number of jobs required to afford the memory card plus the console...
Four jobs required confirmed!
Four jobs required confirmed!
SatelliteOfLove
Member
Meet the new Sony, same as the new Sony.
Commanche Raisin Toast
Member
is a trollface.jpg REALLY mandatory at this point? i mean REALLY?
Watch them never do that, ever, because this is not a fantasy land and if anything Sony is going to take the next step and region lock the games so you can't even import without buying another vita.
Then people will continue to whine about this, as it is a giant hurdle to make consumers jump through, and shouldn't be defended.
People will defend ANYTHING, so it actually is mandatory!
I'm an expert
Formerly worldrevolution. The only reason I am nice to anyone else is to avoid being banned.
Thanks for stating your personal opinion while completely dismissing mine.
George Claw M.D.
Member
On the other hand, this just added an additional bullet point, justifying any rumor that retail games would cost more than digital versions. Retail versions are still region free.
Does this mean that you can only bind a single memory card to the Vita, though? Like, if you fill-up a 4GB card, can you just buy another card, and use both, or would you need to buy a larger capacity card, and your 4GB becomes useless?
Does this mean that you can only bind a single memory card to the Vita, though? Like, if you fill-up a 4GB card, can you just buy another card, and use both, or would you need to buy a larger capacity card, and your 4GB becomes useless?
DangerousDave
Member
Sony: Only one account for each Vita.
GAF: But we want to have several accounts!
Sony: Ok, only one account for each memory card.
GAF: But we want to get the trophies of all our games in the same account!
Sony: Dammit, you only complain. Ok, then, only one acount for each Vita.
GAF: But we want to have several accounts!
Sony: Ok, only one account for each memory card.
GAF: But we want to get the trophies of all our games in the same account!
Sony: Dammit, you only complain. Ok, then, only one acount for each Vita.
I guess they respected your opinion by accident lol.
Captain Tuttle
Member
Man Sony isn't handling this well at all
Jinfash
needs 2 extra inches
GAF: *homebrews*
lordfroakie
Member
People actually said that? lol. That's not even possible with a PS3 where you can have 100 accounts.
jim-jam bongs
Member
Now I'm not sure what you're actually saying :lol
So I guess that's means that it is necessary? I am way too hungover to figure this out right now.
I'm still amazed by the fact that it comes out in 48 hours and they still have no ideas about all its specifications. Big communication issue here.
I was okay with the 1 account per card as a compromise but this is dumb especially since there's still confusion so soon near the launch date.
I was okay with the 1 account per card as a compromise but this is dumb especially since there's still confusion so soon near the launch date.
corporate cheerleader
Member
You sounded just like them.
DangerousDave
Member
No trophies or DLC, then.
We only can hope that this "factory reset" is a fast thing and only erase minor information, and keep the 2 cards solution.
I'm sure he'd be above mischaracterising an argument to push his own point of view.
iKeepPlaying
Banned
AkimbO_Arcana
Banned
uhm... yes it is.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
? I have Project Diva Dreamy Theater Trophies on my US account.
Well, Sony's on a good run so I'd say you can only use 1 memory card with 1 Vita so you need to buy another Vita to use another memory card. Remember the cycle of Vita, it all goes back to the memory cards and Sony's clueless PR department.
Um no? The R4 card itself cost a bit but I could use any size micro sd card I wanted with it and could buy that for less than 1$ a gig off amazon instead of 4/5 bucks a gig that sony wants.
cartman414
Member
So this means no accounts for foreign regions as well, meaning no PSN? Damn!
DangerousDave
Member
Yes, a lot of people complained about this.
But the truth is that in PS3, you can have trophies of games bought in different regions (and then, in different accounts) in a single account. Log to US account -> buy -> log to your main account -> play. There are even a few games (Demon's Souls, for example) where you can get several platinums (playing copies of different regions in the same account).
SatelliteOfLove
Member
Old Sony == PSX, PS2...oh nm.
I think you can have the foreign account provided its the only acount. The hardware itself is region free.
DangerousDave
Member
Portable console is not the same as a home console. Of course there will be several accounts allowed in PS4.
Still, is propietary hardware. Also, you seem to miss what were the prices of the M3 cards when they launched. It was nearly a hundred dollars for a fixed memory size.
The Hermit
Member
first reply win, as usual...
As far as we know.
Commanche Raisin Toast
Member
okay fine, if you would rather i develop my sarcastic remark into some sort of discussion point more worthy of immediately dismissing or to use as a pillow to punch, i'll throw you a bone:
what's the REAL issue here with sony? is it that they are enforcing region locking too strictly or they aren't at all? if you think about it, they don't really seem to care much about region locking or preventing use of software across different regions. if they did, there would be no ability to add accounts of a different region to your PS3. there would be *true* blocking of importing hardware from a different region. the software, if you were to acquire it somehow, wouldn't work.
none of those things are true, so it's obvious sony doesn't care. why would they even go on about ps3 being region free if they gave 2 shits about region locking? they don't. period. so in that light, now that i think about it, it's not that crazy of an idea to one day see sony saying "fine, here. click these buttons to switch which region store you are in, but don't come crying if you can't read any of it, if the connection sucks, and if you have a hard time figuring out how to actually put money in it's respective wallet."
on the other side of the argument though, if they didn't care about region locking at all, then why is there no universal PSN login that just uses your location for accounting/profiling/currency purposes? it almost seems like they would have to GO OUT OF THEIR WAY to make these things JUUUUUUUST complicated enough to piss everyone off.
so in conclusion: anything is possible at this point. both incredibly good shit and incredibly bad shit. either way im glad to be unaffected by it at all, because as someone said before, i live in a region where the store isn't shitty. maybe sony should focus on that problem and less on putting up fences?
what's the REAL issue here with sony? is it that they are enforcing region locking too strictly or they aren't at all? if you think about it, they don't really seem to care much about region locking or preventing use of software across different regions. if they did, there would be no ability to add accounts of a different region to your PS3. there would be *true* blocking of importing hardware from a different region. the software, if you were to acquire it somehow, wouldn't work.
none of those things are true, so it's obvious sony doesn't care. why would they even go on about ps3 being region free if they gave 2 shits about region locking? they don't. period. so in that light, now that i think about it, it's not that crazy of an idea to one day see sony saying "fine, here. click these buttons to switch which region store you are in, but don't come crying if you can't read any of it, if the connection sucks, and if you have a hard time figuring out how to actually put money in it's respective wallet."
on the other side of the argument though, if they didn't care about region locking at all, then why is there no universal PSN login that just uses your location for accounting/profiling/currency purposes? it almost seems like they would have to GO OUT OF THEIR WAY to make these things JUUUUUUUST complicated enough to piss everyone off.
so in conclusion: anything is possible at this point. both incredibly good shit and incredibly bad shit. either way im glad to be unaffected by it at all, because as someone said before, i live in a region where the store isn't shitty. maybe sony should focus on that problem and less on putting up fences?
And you know this how? I could have asked myself the same question .. fair enough. I believe Sony wants to get rid of sharing. Just my take on this situation.
LiquidSolid
Member
Derp. Yes it is.
PataHikari
Banned
You do realize that people will sometimes share video game systems.
DangerousDave
Member
Because they already said that the reason to have only one account for each Vita is because they see Vita as a single-owner console, not a family console.
Dead Prince
Banned
Could of used that for secret santa instead
pfft. $20 limit? min should be $200
Yeah, but even if Sony did allow us to have multiple accounts per memory card, that would mean play your game on THAT particular account, so it's NOT possible to get all the trophies on your "main" account. That's why I said it's not even possible on the PS3. It would be akin to playing different PS3 games on your US, EU, JP account, thus spreading around your trophies. That's the Vita situation IF Sony allowed us to have multiple accounts.
LiquidSolid
Member
Because a lot of people in this thread are obviously self-centred and care little about, say, Australians and New Zealanders missing out on games like Trails in the Sky or Ys VII. And that then leads to rabid defence of the Vita because who cares how much it effects other people, they're wrong and the Vita is the greatest.
GAF: *homebrews*
Seriously though - it's like they just don't get it.
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
Hahaha, what a joke.
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