PSVITA Noob

PSVITA! I always want PSVita since about 1-2 years ago, but never had a chance to buy it.... no money... everytime I have money, I spent it on food, cosplay, travels..... and suddenly someone gave it to me on my birthday! I'm so happy QAQ *cries*


So, I want to tell you about my first encounter with PSV and things you should know :

1. Memory Cards

The person who gave me the PSV don't know anything about Memory Cards for PSV. So, he didn't buy any. So I decided to go to the electronic store to buy one. At first, I thought that PSV memory card is the same as micro SD. but IT IS NOT!

So, yeah, you have to buy one, and it's not that cheap either. They have the memory cards in 8 GB, 16 GB, 32 GB, 64 GB.. Actually at first I want to buy the 8 GB, but it has already sold out everywhere. So I bought the 16 GB for IDR 550.000.... a little bit expensive yes? I was a bit in a hurry. I should've learn the market first. Because I saw an online shop sell the memory card a little bit cheaper :'(
but never mind that, as long as I can play. And turned out, it's a nice decisions to  buy the 16GB one, considering 1 game can take you about 2 GB or more.

2. PSN ID

I saw the PSN Store and it says that I need to register first. And here comes another confusing part. The web said that PSN Store are divided into 4 regions.

• Region 1 (US)
• Region 2 (Japan)
• Region 2 (UK-England, German, Austria)
• Region 3 (Indonesia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea)
• Region 4 (Australia)

So I was looking at informations on where should I sign up for. At first, my boyfriend told me to use region 3 (Indonesia), so it's easier for me if I need something. But lots of people told me to go with region 1, because much more complete. But, if you can read Japanese, and want to play Japanese games, I recommend you to use region 2 (japan). Well, I can't speak nor read Japanese. So, region 1 it is.

But wait a minute, I don't even have an address! Don't worry, you don't have to live there. You can just search an address in the US and use it for your PSN. BUT BE CAREFUL! some of the address are having a tax if you buy a games in PSN Store! I'm using New York, and I didn't get any tax... so it's safe :D

3. PSN +

When I was searching through the PSN Store, I stumbled across PSN plus membership. I don't know what it is, so I decided to buy the 1 week membership for $9.99. Turns out I can have some games for free! BUT WAIT A MINUTE, THERE'S A CATCH! When your membership has ended, you can't play your games anymore. so it means, you have to play as fast as you can, to get the trophy as much as you can! 

But, for me it's alright, because I can try games that I don't know if I want to buy it or not until the story is over. Sometimes when I download a demo, it took me about 3-4 hours to finished, but I can only play it for 1 minute! MAN!

So for me, I recommend you to become a member for once in a while :D

4. Region Free!

In point 3 I said that PSN needs you to sign up in one of those 4 regions. But don't worry, you can still play games in other regions, BUT, it has to be a cartridge, not digital. And when you buy another regions game, when the games came with a DLC, you can download the content. :(
So sad right :(

WHY SONY WHY????

5. PSN Voucher

I don't know what it was called, but I called it PSN Voucher. What is it? It's a voucher that has codes to increasing you PSN wallet amount. So you can buy the games in your region even though you didn't actually live there :D

Okay... maybe this is all from me right now... HAPPY PLAYING!

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