What keeps me from deciding to get one (once it's less pricy) is the following question / hypothetical situation: Let's say I get an American model (which is what's going to be available down here). I know for certain that, no matter what, Japanese games on physical media will run, no problem, on my American Vita unit. However, what happens once I have my PSN account or whatever and I get some downloaded American region games from it? Can I also get games from another region? Do I have to make another "fake" account to download games from the Japanese store? Is this even possible from outside Japan? Can I get Japanese games from the American store? Will this get me banned?
Your PSN account is tied to the memory card. The user id/password and what region psn store you log into is saved to the memory card. If you take out the memory card and put in a new one, you can then use another psn account. So basically you would have one memory card for the US PSN store and another memory card for the Japan PSN store. If you want to use the same memory card for both stores, it involves doing a factory reset on the vita. So using different memory cards is much easier.
With the shanzai its all about volume: if the PSV sells and people want cheaper memcards they pay a couple EEs to design a chip to circumvent the antipiracy system. See the X360 and ODDE, they could have done that crap years ago, problem? nextgen wasnt that big years ago, remember how the PS2 was still outselling the PS3 in 07/08? I dont get sony though, since the PSV uses custom media they should sell at cost, as cheap as possible so people can buy MORE games:nod: Whos going to download a game if they have to fork down at least $20 for a memcard just to store it? Yeah I read about it, personally I'm more worried about the content manager crap that could spy on me. In fact I wouldnt be surprised if regular (not gaming) hackers join the race to crack this just to give the finger to sony for trying to be big brother with the PSV That would be one BIG unintended consequence of this... Either way, I'm sure its going to get cracked eventually, just like the PS3 Besides the #1 motiv of every pirate (free booty!) right now I can say I'm really pissed off about the CM, and the fact that if by chance I dont have access to the internet (happens many times when I'm traveling) I cant load any games from my laptop to my PSV, unless I fork down $120 for a 32GB card that still wont hold everything, specially with new bigger games. What can I say? it all adds up: if I have to pay a truckload of cash for a console and still I'm conditioned about how I can use it is not a fair deal. Sony wont stop pirates, nobody can, and the last thing they should do is ruin it for legit buyers like you and me
