sevenchaos
Banned
Okay it's late and I apologize but how do we do this? I have an American account. To access the Japanese store I have to make a whole new account or can I use the same one for different regions?
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Nintendo Switch eShops from other regions can easily be accessed
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Create a new account at accounts.nintendo.com with the region set to Japan. Add a new user on the Switch. Link the user with that new account.
Then when you open the eShop you just choose which user to use.
Have we figured out which region has the cheapest games like on xbox usually its Brazil or Russia. Usually with those savings i make more impulse buys.
Also how does it work in terms of purchaces. If i buy from JP account can i play on my primary UK account even when offline?
Also how does it work in terms of purchaces. If i buy from JP account can i play on my primary UK account even when offline?
sevenchaos
Banned
Awesome! Thank you so much!
Annoying Old Party Man
Member
Where's the demos?
I'm a little confused even trying to sort through this thread. Please correct me where I'm wrong: Here's what I gathered:
To access the Japanese eshop (as an American), you can either:
-make a 2nd Nintendo account in Japan region
Or
-change the region on your main Nintendo account to Japan
If you change the region of your primary account, you lose any eshop funds currently on that account
From what I've gathered, you can't purchase from the Japanese eshop with an American CC and need to buy eshop credit.
If a game has an English option, having your system set to English (regardless of the region for your Nintendo account) will enable it
There should be no problem having multiple accounts from different regions on one switch
Lingering questions:
1) if your switch is set to English and you access the Japanese eshop, is the eshop in Japanese ( I assume) or English (which would be helpful but not necessary)
2) If I switch my Nintendo account region to Japanese, buy some games, and then change back to America, do the Japanese games appear on my account game list / are they redownloadable without changing my account back to Japanese?
I had totally planned to do this PS4 style making a separate Japanese account. However, if it's actually pretty simple and possibly advantageous to keep it all on one account (assuming I don't have to region swap to download my games again or something) than that option is even better! Other than zeroing out my balance every time.
To access the Japanese eshop (as an American), you can either:
-make a 2nd Nintendo account in Japan region
Or
-change the region on your main Nintendo account to Japan
If you change the region of your primary account, you lose any eshop funds currently on that account
From what I've gathered, you can't purchase from the Japanese eshop with an American CC and need to buy eshop credit.
If a game has an English option, having your system set to English (regardless of the region for your Nintendo account) will enable it
There should be no problem having multiple accounts from different regions on one switch
Lingering questions:
1) if your switch is set to English and you access the Japanese eshop, is the eshop in Japanese ( I assume) or English (which would be helpful but not necessary)
2) If I switch my Nintendo account region to Japanese, buy some games, and then change back to America, do the Japanese games appear on my account game list / are they redownloadable without changing my account back to Japanese?
I had totally planned to do this PS4 style making a separate Japanese account. However, if it's actually pretty simple and possibly advantageous to keep it all on one account (assuming I don't have to region swap to download my games again or something) than that option is even better! Other than zeroing out my balance every time.
Not even Apple lets you do that.
OK, but I can on my Xbox One.
Some folks their card seems to work on the JP eShop fine, others not so much. Not a big deal for me since I've got the 3DS workaround regardless, but still.
Also, Japanese eShop is ALWAYS in Japanese.
mocolostrocolos
Member
Has anybody tried to change an already created account to Japan region and check if it loads the japanese eShop?
Jo Shishido's Cheeks
Member
Waiting for a brave soul to change their main accounts region to Japan and back... Not having to have multiple accounts would be great.
Starwolf_UK
Member
What does this mean? Would NOE unlink my Japanese account if I contact them? If not would NCL accept e-mailed google translated nonsense to unlink? Sticking to one account and switching countries has its own problems as well though.http://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/22453 said:
I posted about this earlier and it depends on the currency you are purchasing with, what the main Nintendo subsidary set the exchange at (they tend to be within 10% of the current value) and if it is a retailed priced game or a digital priced game (for example a 10 VC game is £9 but a 60 retail game is £50). People in places like Norway probably stand to save about 15% by not using Norwegian eShop.
There are also other things to consider like you might be able to find download codes for less than eShop price. For example 1-2-Switch is 50 on the eShop. Amazon Germany sell the download code for 35 (while it says Note: Currently, this product is only available to customers in Germany and Austria, I guess like Japan that is only ships to those addresses).
Download codes are lot less restrictive than credit*. At least in the past "PAL" download codes have worked in all non-Oceania "PAL" eShops (i.e. Europe, Russia and South Afrcia) whereas Oceania (Australia and New Zealand) use a different incompatible cypher. Likewise NTSC-U and NTSC-J use different cyphers.
*-Currency has to match for eShop credit meaning £s can only be used on UK eShop etc...
FunkyDealer
Banned
Wonderful
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rockman zx
Member
Play-Asia charges 390 yens for the 1000 yen cards and 687 yen for the 5000 yen cards right now, is not a bad deal.
Starwolf_UK
Member
It is a bad deal when all you need to do to buy cards on Amazon Japan (a charge of 0 yen for any yen card can buy 500 yen at minimum) is:
YES! Digital Codes emailed directly from www.Amazon.co.jp with no marked up prices.
Thank You.
If I can't use my US credit card directly I'll have to buy from www.Amazon.co.jp
QUESTION - Can these codes also be purchased with Amazon.co.jp giftcards?
If it works that way. Ordering a amazon.co.jp giftcard first then using that giftcard to purchase Japanese e-shop credit could be a useful work around if you run into credit card issues because your address doesn't match.
Yeah, that's plan c!
Plan a: credit card on eShop
Plan b: Amazon
Plan c: eShop vouchers on play Asia
So does this mean.
Any euro € card or emailed code, can be used in any eshop that uses the euro € currency? It doesn't have to be country specific? The currency just has to match?
If so that's good to know.
b00_thegh0st
Member
Quick question that may already have been answered: is a game bought on a jpn account playable from the euro or us account?
Yes.
b00_thegh0st
Member
Thanks. Incredible we just went from the walled 3ds ecosystem to this.
Yup. Here's one of the screenshot above. It's definitely a great thing.My region free games ❤️
Thanks for this.
I have discovered some things from trying to keep everything on one account.
First of all, my debit/credit card wouldn't work on the JP eShop.
So I went to get the eShop card off AmazonJP in the quote above, it took a while to figure out the things to get the order through.
Anyway, I changed my Nintendo Account region to Japan, entered the JP eShop card code for ¥1000 and bought Blaster Master Zero for ¥980.
The transaction went through, switched back to my original region which wiped out the 20 yen left in the JP region.
The game works, I didn't need to have the Japan region active for my account.
Now, this is where things got interesting. I deleted the game while having the region set to my region and not Japan.
I go to the eShop of my region and found out that I can redownload the game from my region eShop. I didn't need to switch to Japan region to access it.
If that's the case why couldn't they just make this easier...
Oh also, for accessing the eShop you can switch regions on your phone back and forth without having to restart the Switch. You just need to not be in the eShop while this is happening.
And! I haven't finished yet. I received 10 gold coins to my.nintendo account from buying Blaster Master Zero. So regardless of switching regions, you get to keep all your coins on the account.
Edit: The only thing I am baffled with is why Inti creates don't let you use the Pro Controller for Master Blaster Zero.
Edit 2: So, the only downside I've found so far is of course that I don't have a credit card to do the JP purchases so that I can purchase the exact amount.
Edit 3: And as Cheesemeister said earlier, I was able to relink my NNID to my account after being done with all of the above since I would need it for when I have to repurchase all my VC games.
I can only speak for point card codes, 3DS and Wii U game codes which worked perfectly fine (so in theory it should also work for Switch). In the case of 3DS and Wii U games Amazon Japan will also ask whether you'd like to redirect to another page and login to your NNID to redeem the code and initiate standby mode download right away.
You are welcome.
I haven't done the giftcard part, but I assume it'll also work for buying eShop point cards if you run into issues with matching addresses. That's what I do to buy songs from Japanese Amazon Music since that part of Amazon Japan won't accept my card.
I can't imagine this will last but it is good news. I've now added American and Japanese accounts to my pre-existing UK account and given the two new accounts perfect nicknames and Nintendo IDs for their particular regions.
Not that it look like I'll be buying a Switch at the moment but I may do in a year or so. At least I'll be ready to go if I do.
Not that it look like I'll be buying a Switch at the moment but I may do in a year or so. At least I'll be ready to go if I do.
Garrett Hawke
Member
Hmmm, can't use my uk card on Canada eShop anymore. Wasn't a problem on the 3DS and Wii U. Doesn't even let me checkout online using it
Jo Shishido's Cheeks
Member
Whoa this is really great news, thanks for testing this all out.
So if you go to:
https://accounts.nintendo.com > Shop Menu > Account Activity
the Japanese purchase will show whilst you're set to your home region?
I'm still shook this is even a thing, roll on VC!
Kain-Nosgoth
Member
can't Use my CC (switzerland here) on the US eshop, will try on the japanese one!
Unfortunately I can't access the shop menu because they still haven't set it up in my region: It gives an error saying, Error 904-1404 "This site cannot be used in your country at this time."
The only record of my Japanese purchase 'in a sense' was in my.nintendo account where I tap on the gold coin jar > view your points > log, and then it states that I made a purchase between 500-1000 yen which earned me 10 gold coins.
Garrett Hawke
Member
Okay, I can still add funds to my CAN account using my UK card using my 3DS and they show up on my Switch account.
Stupid workaround but eh.
Stupid workaround but eh.
Kain-Nosgoth
Member
japanese one didn't work either.... but there's worse...
i can't add fund in my own account either, i've got this error :
2813-0091
i can't add fund in my own account either, i've got this error :
2813-0091
ReplacementPelican
Member
Is the Switch background legitimately the same colour as NeoGaf dark?My region free games ❤️
Garrett Hawke
Member
Okay that definitely worked.
Using my NTSC 3DS I was able to add funds on the CAN eShop using my UK credit card and then buy Shovel Knight on the CAN eShop on my Switch.
Using my NTSC 3DS I was able to add funds on the CAN eShop using my UK credit card and then buy Shovel Knight on the CAN eShop on my Switch.
I'm downloading the demo of puyo puyo tetris now. The digital version is more expensive than my physical UK preorder, but if I choose to buy it, what denominations are the eshop cards available in? On the eshop the game is 5389 yen - is that the tax included price? Trying to figure out what I'll need to buy from amazon to cover it.
MarkMclovin
Member
We've come a long way!
why are you trying to keep things on one account? I'd have thought having separate purchase from different regions would make more sense - especially if Nintendo close this avenue eventually and there are issues with having games from more than one region on your account.
And as you can just have an account sitting there but still play with your normal account, it doesn't seem to make any practical difference?
It looks like they've already blocked foreign credit cards from working on other eShops so they'll probably take the next step and remove eShop cards as well. lol
If that happens, that would mean they are literally taking a huge step back to the NNID days so then the question would be what was the point of them making Nintendo Account then?
I can only speak for point card codes, 3DS and Wii U game codes which worked perfectly fine (so in theory it should also work for Switch). In the case of 3DS and Wii U games Amazon Japan will also ask whether you'd like to redirect to another page and login to your NNID to redeem the code and initiate standby mode download right away.
You are welcome.
I haven't done the giftcard part, but I assume it'll also work for buying eShop point cards if you run into issues with matching addresses. That's what I do to buy songs from Japanese Amazon Music since that part of Amazon Japan won't accept my card.
Okay, I bought the Disgaea code from amazon.co.jp, and redeemed. It's downloading now, so it seems this is another way to go if you don't want to have to pay over the odds to get eShop monies.
brandonh83
Banned
So I can use my U.S. card and buy games from say the Japanese eshop? That can't be right. That's too awesome to be even remotely right.
Received my Switch just now, but I didn't preorder Zelda and none of the shops nearby have it in stock, all sold out. I thought, whatever, I just buy it from the eShop, no big deal. Holy fucking shit, it's 69.99 in the EU eShop! Created a US Nintendo account, bought a Zelda digital code from Amazon for $59.99 and redeemed it, downloading now.