Lusche on 18 November 2013
| endimion said: the only thing I'm not sure off is the NTSC format but it shouldn't be an issue in theory... usually that depends on DVD drive for physical games.... but not for digital when I was in the US I had a EU XBL account also and it was working on my US console even thugh EU is in PAL region.... to simplify when you have an account in a region XBL shows the features ad store of that region but to use them and buy on it you have to physically be n tat region or have your IP coming from that region... and pay with something from that region too.... but come to think of it... it is easy to check that out he doesn't need a gold account to purchase on XBL, he should just create an account from his current location and see if he can purchase from it and if it works.... and if doesn't want to bother with geeking out a router to have a VPN service redirection he should be able to do that quiet easily from a PC just using a free VPN service to buy from the xbox.com location he wants and add it to his queue from the PC.... then his console doesn't need to have it's IP in the region... when I'm at my parents house and I have my XB and there is a good deal that's what I do and even if my console IP is in EU it starts downloading once I bought it from the US store on my PC.... |
well obviously you can have a xbl account on every region.
I have one jp, eu and us account on each of my console and I can use them without any problems.
even buying things is no problem. thanks to the point cards you can buy and charge your account with.
I don't know if you need an vpn anymore to dl things. You needed one in the early stages, but the last game I bought from the jp store didnt need one I think.
but starting it is a different beast. if it starts yeah your good. but many games in the jp store wont work with the pal/ntsc-u version. you will get a region lock error when you try to start them.
