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Faelco on 04 November 2018
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twintail said:
Faelco said: 

Other players, on SC or other games, have the same issues, with usually the same answer: it's region locked.

Example: https://talk.turtlerockstudios.com/t/playstation-4-region-matchmaking/54040

Or on Playstation forums: https://community.eu.playstation.com/t5/PS4/How-is-your-server-region-selected/td-p/24120827

Other Playstation forum thread: https://community.eu.playstation.com/t5/GT-Sport/How-to-change-region/td-p/25338750

Yes, sometimes I was with people from other countries on UC4. But the usual was with European players (can talk to them with mic), and I can assure you that the experience with my JP account is in another league compared to the EU account. Less loading times, 5 bars on my reception on matchmaking screen, and smooth gameplay. And like I said, I was always with the same players on my EU account (the userbase is not that huge), never saw them on the JP account.

What is the country of your UC disc? Some games will allow the setting, but maybe some versions are not localized the same way (if there is not a lot of players in the region for example).

There are answers in the links you provided. 

The turtlestudios link clearly asks the devs to open the matchmaking. Hence, its dev related.

Your 1st PS forum link says that some games will allow you to choose. Hence, its dev related.

The GTSport link clearly states that the region matchmaking can be changed. Hence its dev related.

This will not be any different on Xbox. And I highly doubt it will be any different with the Switch. Devs will either allow you to choose your region or they won't care and let you just ping based on your current location, or assumed account location. 

There is even a question about this on the X1 reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/xboxone/comments/8mwqt2/can_we_change_matchmaking_region_datacenter/

My UC4 was Asia. 

Yes, it's dev related and will depend on each game. But GT and Uncharted are Sony studios, so Sony is responsible for that anyway. They should just allow us either to change the region of the account, or at least the default region of matchmaking, just like we can change the download location on Steam.

Maybe since Asia is not one of the big three locations and is a lot more diverse (usually used in a lot of very different countries), the localization doesn't bind it to one place as much as the other versions.