Change Region/Country on PS4 Consoles - How to

PlayStation 4 users have a feature to change region, country and language on ps4 that should be taken into account when buying video games on PSN. The ability to change the region of the account, an ideal feature to check prices in other countries before opening the virtual wallet for a DLC or full game. In this article there is a process on how to change country, region and language on PS4.

Tutorial: how to change region, country and language in your PSN account to check prices for other countries from your PlayStation 4.

Change region, country and language on the PS4 PlayStation Network - an interesting feature, but limited for certain users.



The ability to change region on PS4 account was added a couple of years ago, through the 6.20 system update. Users can access this feature from the PSN store . From there, they will have to scroll the menu on the left to "Store Country", where a menu will open with options to change the PSN country, region or language.

Of course, no matter how many changes are made in that section, PlayStation only allows purchases in the store that corresponds to the country and region of the original account. However, it is a quick method to check discounts or availability of content in other countries. On the other hand, the function to change country, region and language in PSN is only available in accounts in the European Union, so North America and Lat-Am are ruled out.

Create a new PSN account - the only effective method to access other regions

 How to Change Region/Country on PS4

If you checked out a store in the EU and you wanted to buy video games from there, you would have to create a new PSN account with the corresponding country, region and language. To do this, you will have to follow the following steps:

1. Turn on your PS4.
2. In the user selection, click on "New user".
3. Create a user.
4. Accept the terms and conditions.
5. Click Next.
6. Click on "Is this your first time using PlayStation Network? Create an account".
7. Fill in the data, including selecting a new region.
8. You can find an extended article on account creation from different regions here.