Japanese PS3 -> US Playstation Store?

Triton

My Japanese PS2 recently croaked. I have a bunch of import games, no PS3, and have read that PS3 games are apparently region free and that the US and Japan are in the same Blu-ray region.

Logical conclusion: replace broken Japanese PS2 with Japanese PS3 - then I can play US PS3 games, Japanese PS3 games, my collection of import PS2 games, and Blu-ray movies in either region. US PS2 games wouldn't work but I have a working local PS2.

Seems great. My question is simply if someone knows whether or not the Japanese PS3 can get on the US Playstation store. I don't know how consoles from various regions connect to the store, if it can be changed, or what. Does anyone have any experience with this?

Any help is appreciated, thanks.

Unco-ordinated

You can sign up for any regions PS Store from any PS3 (so a Jap PS3 can have a US account, etc). However, in order to actually buy things from the US account, you'll need to have a US credit card.

I should point out though, that if you're getting a Japanese PS3 you'll suffer from censorship that the US or Euro consoles won't. Eg, since Resistance only has one global SKU (instead of having a seperate SKU for each region), it censors the game if you play it on a Japanese PS3.

juggerbot

Same region for US and Japan? How do they deal with framerate issues?

JetBlackCenter

it censors it? what does it do?

mntorankusu

juggerbot wrote: »

Same region for US and Japan? How do they deal with framerate issues?

...what do you mean?

chaossoldier

juggerbot wrote: »

Same region for US and Japan? How do they deal with framerate issues?

I'm pretty sure both Japan and US use NTCS format. Japan just falls into Region 2 protection.

Unco-ordinated

JetBlackCenter wrote: »

it censors it? what does it do?

It checks what region the PS3 is from and then plays the version of Resistance according to that. So, if you put a copy of Resistance into a Japanese PS3, it'll be the censored version but if you put the same copy of Resistance into a PAL PS3, it'll be the uncensored version.

As for what it censors, I'm pretty sure it takes all the 'hero' moments out of the game. I think there might be less blood too.

chaossoldier: Yeah, plus it has a 50hz mode for people that live in PAL countries that have a shitty old tv (though if they don't even have a PAL-60 tv, they shouldn't really have a PS3).

Triton

Unco-ordinated wrote: »

You can sign up for any regions PS Store from any PS3 (so a Jap PS3 can have a US account, etc). However, in order to actually buy things from the US account, you'll need to have a US credit card.

I should point out though, that if you're getting a Japanese PS3 you'll suffer from censorship that the US or Euro consoles won't. Eg, since Resistance only has one global SKU (instead of having a seperate SKU for each region), it censors the game if you play it on a Japanese PS3.

Woah... that's really weird. Are any other games doing the same thing yet?

Unco-ordinated

Triton wrote: »

Unco-ordinated wrote: »

You can sign up for any regions PS Store from any PS3 (so a Jap PS3 can have a US account, etc). However, in order to actually buy things from the US account, you'll need to have a US credit card.

I should point out though, that if you're getting a Japanese PS3 you'll suffer from censorship that the US or Euro consoles won't. Eg, since Resistance only has one global SKU (instead of having a seperate SKU for each region), it censors the game if you play it on a Japanese PS3.

Woah... that's really weird. Are any other games doing the same thing yet?

Not that I know of. Insomniac seem to like the approach though, so Ratchet & Clank Future will probably do the same thing as well (not that it will have anything worth censoring).