I am a very unlucky Guy. I originally come from Germany, where I bought my PS3 on the release day. I have even pre-ordered it almost 1 year before release. I was happy owning it and playing my games online during 2 years. For business reasons I had to move to Japan in January and now I would like to kick into the ass of the SCE Managers.

I took my Playstation 3 Console with me to japan, I bought a transformer from 100V to 250V, so my console works and it is connected to the Internet. I can browse the german PS3 Online Shop, but I cannot change my account address from Germany to Japan. In Sony's mind, you can never move to another country.

I wanted to continue to play Little Big Planet, but I can not connect to any server anymore, so I can play only offline.

With Guitar Hero, I can go online, but I am never able to play with somebody together, connection gets never established.

Sony's Playstation Home is unable to connect to any servers.

I have not tested all my games, but at least half of them fail to connect.

I bought Games here in Japan:

PES2008 at least has English
Resistance: Fall of Men has also German
Genji Days of Blade: ONLY JAPANESE
Rainbow Six Vegas: ONLY JAPANESE
Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom ONLY JAPANESE

The german Version has at least always English as additional language. I am really fucked up.

To learn the japanese Kanji will cost me years. I suspect that I can properly go online with my german console and a japanese game.

For everything works I think I need to buy a japanese console and japanese games. THANK YOU SONY, you really fucked me up!

(I tried to go online with a japanese Account on my german console, no success...)

Sony Support just giving stupid answers or do not even answer!

I have to import my games from germany because of the language, but I can not play online, because my IP Address in Japan does not match probably the PS3 HW Model for Europe. So Sony does EXCLUDE me on purpose from being online. I am sure that this is really not an technical issue, just on purpose because they want to hinder free global markets an importing etc.

i have gone online with accounts that do not match the country i am playing it. including a japanese one.

so to start, i would like more information regarding your calls to sonys support service.

I'm guessing you would run into the same issues with any of the consoles. Sucks, but it is just how the world works.

this is for all consoles, actually in the wii and 360 u can't even play region locked games so it takes while in japan u use a japanese console for online.

the ps3 can play usa , europe and japanese games without restrictions.

btw: i can connect to japanese PSN with a japanese account, but i have never tried the online mode.

as for a IP and things, i have a american ps3, playing in a latin american IP, and can play online. so they should be any problems for that with any account it doesn't matter if it's usa, america  or japan.

though all my games are USA based too.

it shouldn't matter i have 3 psn accounts 1 in us, uk, & japan they all work fine for me

thats wierd. there shouldnt be a problem with the ip thing you should be able to connect to PSN fine. This sounds really wierd to me

The Thing is, I can use a japanese Account or american account on my german console to visit the Shop and download a demo, that is no problem. I can go online and see my buddies online. But I was never able to establish a Chatsession since I am in Japan.

The Playstation Shop works, but not Playstation Home. I can also play all the games with my different accounts offline, but in many games I am not able anymore to establish an online Session. One which is working is Gran Turismo 5 Prologue, there I can race. But GTH3 goes online, I can see people in the Lobby but I am not able to make a connection.

Of course I can connect the PSN, but that's it! I can visit the Shop and download the Firmware Upgrades...

Actually, you can make more than one account

guess i misunderstood what you said laffer either it sucks not to be able to play online =(

XBOX is the one that SCREWED this up.

Since PSN, you are allowed multiple accounts! XBL you have to pay $50 for 1 year, 1 account. Since I moved from USA to Canada... i cant buy DLC at all because I cant use the MS points since I registered in another country.