PS Vita Import / purchase overseas

Question

I'm travelling soon and am considering buying a (much cheaper there) Playstation Vita to bring back home.

Will I have any issues using an imported Vita at home?

Will I be able to:

• configure it to use English?
• connect it to my local PSN store and buy games / download my PSP titles?
• play locally-released physical games?

If it helps, I live in Australia and I'm travelling to Japan.

Asked by YellowMegaMan

Answer

I bought my PS Vita in Taiwan on release day (23/12/2011), and live in London where it was a 2 month wait before the UK release (22/2/2012). Everything is fully region-free, you choose the language on initial setup. Everything worked perfectly, even the voice-over for Welcome Park was in English.

The PSN store is linked to the location of your PSN account, meaning if you use your Australian account you will connect to the Australian store. This applies for all other services which use PSN. As I bought mine before the UK release, it meant I couldn't access the UK store until the UK release, but now everything works as expected.

Physical games are region-free too. Enjoy!

Answered by Ric

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