What’s the point of making the North American and Europeon PSN stores so different?

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April 28, 2009 at 9:09 pm #14013

tridon
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I go on both stores every Thursday to see the new releases and they're always massively different. It seems like the Europeon store ALWAYS receives new PS1 and PSP games while the NA store receives more DLC currently existing games, wallpapers, themes and so on. Europe also seems to receive more PSN games. I just don't understand why the stores have to be so different. It really ticks me off that here in Canada, I can't download any movies or TV shows and I still can't buy a PSN $20 card or $50 at any retailer. I'd much rather buy one of those over using my credit card but oh well, I'm “just” a Canadian.

April 28, 2009 at 9:16 pm #24032

P0kenny
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it is the Japanese who get everything, the EU doesn’t get movies or that much DLC. What sucks though is that the americans get games a hell of a lot quicker than us. I saw someone who lives in Texus playing Rock Band 2 in november… It isn’t out over here yet!

April 28, 2009 at 9:24 pm #24033

Hurley48
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you know you can just make another user and account with another country right? that's what i did to get the american store which keeps the demo of long time ago but the European they just gone….

April 28, 2009 at 10:03 pm #24037

gow2rules
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japans psn gets the best stuff like ff7 and yakuza 3 demo

April 28, 2009 at 11:11 pm #24050

Ps3 Freak
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Completely ridiculous… i can understand making a differnt jap store but NA and europe speak the same language FFS!

April 28, 2009 at 11:34 pm #24056

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Ps3 Freak said:

Completely ridiculous… i can understand making a differnt jap store but NA and europe speak the same language FFS!

lol, since when does the UK = Europe

There's ~50 other countries aswell 😉

April 28, 2009 at 11:40 pm #24058

KILLER369
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well UK technically isn’t europe. we only joined th EU for th profit.
technically we and america are the same, therefore we should get the same things.

i have a U.S account but cant access th PSN video store wats up with tht? is it even out yet?

April 28, 2009 at 11:48 pm #24060

XeroTheGreat
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It's all the copyright stuff and royalties on the games. America get everything released before the UK get it

And isn't the UK part of the European Union?

April 28, 2009 at 11:58 pm #24062

parnakas
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Canada FTW!!! whos with me??

but yea i think there should only be 1 PS Store, just in different languages.

April 28, 2009 at 11:59 pm #24063

Ps3 Freak
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ops i said that wrong… but u knew i ment uk so whts the point in arguing… is the europe store downloads in english or not?

April 29, 2009 at 1:17 am #24077

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Ps3 Freak said:

ops i said that wrong… but u knew i ment uk so whts the point in arguing… is the europe store downloads in english or not?

Not all downloads no.

April 29, 2009 at 4:00 am #24081

shadeblack
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the reason why the uk takes so long to get games is because of the language barriers.

the UK IS part of the European Union, therfore the EU psn store has to have the languages for most of europe on all games. the language is decided by the default language set on the ps3.

The UK is not part of the US… why anyone would think this is beyond me.

The US get games before the EU mainly because it's closer to japan and it has one language. However, it's and unfortunate and ironic outcome that that language is English.

We are also overlooking something quite important here as well… funding. although it all goes to sony, I'm sure that there is some form of law stating that money earned in different countries will be taxed accordingly by their individual laws. The Laws in the UK and EU are very different to the laws in the US.

April 29, 2009 at 3:42 pm #24097

tridon
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My main anger issue is that the Canadian store (I call it a Canadian store because the US has movies and TV to download; we don't) never receives any PS1 classics. Europe receives a PS1 game almost every week. It's stupid. Do you know how much I'd love to turn on my PS3 and just go nuts on games like Resident Evil 2, FFVII or Spider-Man (Neversoft)? It'd be amazing. I'd also love to see Konami do a port of the Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes that only appeared on the Gamecube (even though I'm probably dreaming with that one).

And parnakas, I'm totally with you… Canada FTW!

April 29, 2009 at 5:23 pm #24100

KILLER369
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yes UK is part of the EU but weer not europeans, i mean do we speak any other language thn english (except for welsh)? UK is only part of the EU Bcause of the cash issues. TECHNICALLY or UNOFICIALLY we are the same as america NOT we are america, we ARE the SAME AS america, our own state.

so back on topic, shade is mainly right but another thing you have to consider is that there are more americans or more asians than british ppl so sony gets a lot more profit off th U.S and asia

April 29, 2009 at 10:18 pm #24133

Ps3 Freak
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Lol this whole argument started cause i made a typo error lmao,

anyway killer im not being sick or nothing but even though asia is more populated i would say Europe is more likely to get more profit for sony because it is alot richer than asia…
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