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Can someone explain the logic behind not supporting all countries by default? What does Sony have to lose by letting people in tiny countries buy their games?



It sounds to me like they care more about people using a PSN account rather than just selling games.

I can't imagine they the tracking data they get from accounts is more profitable than an actual sale.

Perhaps they're convinced that forcing people to create accounts somehow leads to more future sales?


It’s likely one of the elements of requiring a PSN account.

Also apparently in some countries, Sony will verify the age and identity of users by having them upload a govt id and add selfie.

I don’t remember this step in USA based accounts though. So ymmv


Probably the complexity of differing laws of each country.

Helldivers 2 on ps5 requires at least a paid psn membership. In order to do that, a payment needs to be on file.

This is just purely a guess, but I suppose Sony doesn’t have the appropriate licenses to operate in those countries and thus cannot take payment.

They could take payment via ps gift cards but that user would have have to fraudulently claim they are located in another country and buy ps gift cards from that country to get the credits.

Depending on country, user may pay more or less than what it would retail in user country.




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