Vita and PS4 games 50% more expensive in Europe (or why and how I moved to a US PSN account)

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72 Responses

  1. SugahRuzz says:

    I only ever buy games on the UK store when they’re on sale – and I usually get a little PS+ discount as well. I don’t mind waiting, to be honest. Buying at full price is a suckers game, anyway.

  2. bearmon2010 says:

    I am surprised that wolol.net gave the wrong idea that they are 50% expensive in Europe to me which mean its everything in Europe are expensive than in America. No. Some Europe like DE (Deutschland (Germany)) could be a little bit expensive for the games. Some are more affordable here in Europe than in America. Depending on where. like for an example, in Portugal because I was from Portugal. 🙂

    Many American people do not understand the Europe. The European selection of free games PS+ is better than the US. Of course, they seems to get more retail games. American people needs to notice it.

  3. Doesn't Matter says:

    Hi, i’m from Portugal i have a ps3 and the prices are the same here on PSN than in France and other EU countries probably. For example FIFA 15 and COD: Advanced Warfare will come out as 69€ . And at the US psn store will come out 59$ i think.
    So i think many of you know about gamesharing and i want to know if i can create a US account on my ps3 , use the amazon method to buy those 2 games from there and them play it on my main EU account… Because many of you are talking about changing from EU to US account and i don’t know why, i mean, just why don’t you use the US account to buy the game and then just play it in your normal account 🙂
    Thanks for reading and if possible reply me i will come back tomorrow and after to see or just reply to my email.
    tpacers23@gmail.com

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