PS Store Now Allows You to Change Region in Europe

I was waiting for this option to be honest. At least I can now set everything to English.

well it will help if you change country of course it could also be because the UK is leaving the EU and it might require a separate store now

could PSN really become region free? all stores interchangeable?.

@FullbringIchigo The rest of the non-EU countries in Europe don't have separate stores either.

@Spectra honestly i don't think it's going to change a thing, all the companies already have everything in place to distribute here anyway

It's a new version of the PS Store for users in the United Kingdom. It's basically the same as the European store, except it's much harder to get a deal.

I'll be happy to help you translate anything from Romanian language.
Aside from that, that's good news.

@huyi I hope for this very much. It's already possible on Xbox, and I get annoyed how your saves don't work if you try it with the same game just from a different region.

@NecuVise i'm talking more of the content more that the games itself, they can't make those interchangeable between saves including dlc, but if the store front lets you use different regions including the US then this is big if true.

@Gremio108 Nice one No room for negotiation I suppose?

@ShaiHulud Theresa May is flying out to Sony HQ as we speak

@Gremio108 LMAO!

It could be advantageous. Being in the EU and getting games for the EU market means that the games ship with language packs which adds to file size. The US market has fewer languages and game file sizes can be smaller than the EU. Of course the ideal would be to just install the language pack you want/need rather than install every available language options.

It could have 'pro's and con's' in other ways - depending on whether things work to your advantage. EU release dates can be different from the US for example so the UK could benefit from an earlier release (could be worse too). You could end up with different versions of games - depending on censorship laws, loot box gambling laws etc - If the EU bans loot boxes for gambling reasons but the UK doesn't, maybe we will still end up with loot boxes. We could end up with different censored games too - 'green' blood version, more PC versions - or less censored versions too if EU gets more strict on things - as I said, it could go either way....

@kyleforrester87 That idea isn't half bad actually. Do you think the EU will notice if we just pretend there never was a vote?

@ShaiHulud
Apparently we could do pretty much that and cancel the whole thing tomorrow if we wanted to. Well, if the prime minister wanted to.

I hope we don't get an "amusement" tax like in in Chicago now..Oh wait,V.A.T..Sigh,yes thanks a lot Theresa for negotiating complete servitude to the E.U then calling it Brexit.This option here seems to mean not much at least.

I had just taken the offer for PS now Sub first month's £1 and I'm currently playing The Wolf Among Us and it's streaming ok. Can't seem to see many PS4 games yet though

This is due to a new EU law that came into effect on the 3rd of December, in lawman's terms: if you sell anything online (physical or digital) to any EU country then you Must give your customers the option to purchase it as if they were living in any other given EU country. You also cannot automatically re-direct them to their countries' store page. In terms of PSN this means: A person from the UK can purchase the uk version of a game but can opt to pay the German price for it.
Or someone from France can purchase a game that's only available in Spain. Full details:
https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/new-eu-rules-e-commerce

So does this mean i can play GTSport under the Irish Flag instead of the UK which im forced to race under now?

Clearly people don't know the difference between the EU and EUROPE ffs ! Geography hasn't changed....

It's only EU countries and you can only access the official language of the country. Germany only has a German store, Italy in Italian etc.

@RPGpro - does this mean we can benefit from buying games that are cheaper in other EU territories?

For example, god of war was about the equivalent of circa £18 in the US Black Friday sale but was still £24.99 on the UK store... (I didn’t check the price on other EU stores at the time.

What a load of KITE

@Nakatomi_Uk lol ps now is mainly ps1 ps2 games with some older ps3 and ps4 games

@Spectra wouldn't that be SEGA now, didn't they buy Atlus?

Another thing that changed recently is that the store cart now syncs between my PC and my mobile and presumably the PS4 too though my PS4 isn't connected to check. It never used to do that and was so frustrating when adding & removing stuff. Go Sony!

you can come crying to me if you end up with everything in romanian, i know it well enough to help out. feature would have been useful 10 years ago, i have a dutch account that was fairly useless in the UK at least for dlc etc. post EU crashout, i can't imagine paying in euros to be remotely beneficial.

@indulgentgamer
Yes exactly, at least that's one of the things this new law specifies they have to allow you to do. However it looks like Sony doesn't allow you to buy anything if you have the region set to anything besides where you live.... Maybe something they're still working on?

This is awesome. I've been stuck in the UK because of my PS account. Now I can finally go back to France...
What is that? My country is on fire because of people wearing yellow jackets and a stupid president?

@RPGpro awesome, thanks so much for the helpful info!