Highlight of this week's Canadian PSN deals is easily the Rockstar sale, including GTA V on PS4 for the equivalent of £22.75.
I created a Canadian account a few nights ago for Firewatch, and took about 20 minutes from scratch. Here's how:
1. created a brand new Gmail address
2. created a brand new PSN account using my browser, with some random Burger King in Toronto as my address, and verified via the new Gmail account
3. signed up for a brand new account on PCGameSupply and verified via text
4. bought $20 CAD on PCGameSupply (via PayPal) and waited a couple of minutes for the code to pop up
5. set up the new PSN account on my PS4, and set my machine as primary (it actually prompts you to do this)
6. went onto the PlayStation Store, and redeemed my code against Firewatch
Up'd + respect for putting how to set up a Can. account!
higgzy24
16 Feb 167#8
£8.75 for gta trilogy while the uk get shafted with a £28.99 price.
QuickProfits
16 Feb 165#17
Anyone else think it was 21 games for £22.75?
striker33
16 Feb 163#22
Not stupid at all to anyone with a basic understanding of hardware architecture.
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olygrom
16 Feb 169#1
Up'd + respect for putting how to set up a Can. account!
garygdicker
16 Feb 161#2
superb
robtallica
16 Feb 161#3
Thanks for the GTA trilogy heads up. Looked and it was $25-30 on the weekend. I would of got GTA V, that's an awesome price. But the save file won't be compatible with my current one.
Finally made my Canadian account a few days back, I'd held off using the 'two's company, three's a crowd' analogy beforehand (already have UK and US). But the $2 CD to £1 did it for me.
6ixFoot1 to robtallica
16 Feb 16#6
Your current ps4 save file wont be compatible? Why not?
g8spur
16 Feb 16#4
Can't you play games like bully on ps4?
eloo to g8spur
16 Feb 16#20
Soon with the ps2ps4 classic program
Chasloyal to g8spur
17 Feb 16#36
To me it emphasises why it's worth holding on to your older consoles, especially the PS3! The games are never going to be compatible on PS4 and from what I can make out whenever PS5 comes out that won't support them either because of how complex/incompatible the last gen system was.
Funnily enough I've actually been oohing and ahhing about a solitary red 500 gig with two controllers bundle I've seen sat in a shop close by to where I'm located in Austria but I can't justify the €299 tag, if it was €199 I'd have snapped it up straight away.
I go in there and/or look on the retailer's website daily to see if they doing any kind of deal as I will be down there in a shot. I just hope being patient pays off because if someone else grabs it I know I'll end up regretting I didn't get it, even at the higher price it's sat on now.
6ixFoot1
16 Feb 16#5
Canadian credit has gone up in price recently
hotfinder to 6ixFoot1
17 Feb 16#35
Should go down again though. The Canadian Dollar continues to rest heavily with that of oil, therefore like oil prices it will go down. Has only been a few pence difference to be fair.
Yazoo1990
16 Feb 16#7
I'll probably pick up that gta trilogy
higgzy24
16 Feb 167#8
£8.75 for gta trilogy while the uk get shafted with a £28.99 price.
darkspace100 to higgzy24
16 Feb 161#11
Thats what the rrp should have been from the start especially as they are awful ports.
robtallica
16 Feb 16#9
My save file is from a UK disc copy. I wouldn't think that would work with a Canadian digital copy of GTA V. That's unless I've got that wrong. Can anyone confirm either way?
TN567
16 Feb 16#10
Rockstar are fantastic game developers. Loved the warriors
voyager123
16 Feb 16#12
No there not they are the ps2 versions upscaled etc not the awful andriod/ Apple versions which we got on PS3 and Xbox 360
paulj48
16 Feb 162#13
I can confirm it is not compatible, I did the same last November when GTA 5 was on sale then
6ixFoot1
16 Feb 16#14
Even though you play the Canadian GTA on your UK account? Wow, thats a ****
dealhunter1233
16 Feb 16#15
Correct, unless if it's a multiplayer game like Destiny, your save file won't work.
daveroy
16 Feb 16#16
Cracking. I bought Canadian credit for a sale I then missed a while ago and I've had my eye on the GTA games. Perfect deal for me.
QuickProfits
16 Feb 165#17
Anyone else think it was 21 games for £22.75?
prynolfc to QuickProfits
17 Feb 16#27
at first glace yeah haha, i was about to explode in my undies hahaha
thugzlife112
16 Feb 16#18
Very tempted for the Red Dead collection for £4
akash402
16 Feb 16#19
GTA V still holding its value
g8spur
16 Feb 163#21
Still so stupid that you upgrade console and lose the ability to play these sorts of games.
striker33
16 Feb 163#22
Not stupid at all to anyone with a basic understanding of hardware architecture.
Yazoo1990
16 Feb 16#23
They did up the price didn't they
Last week i swear it was £9?
DarkEye
17 Feb 16#24
How long will this deal be running for please if anyone knows?
thugzlife112 to DarkEye
17 Feb 161#25
Ends on the 23rd Feb
scotthodgson08
17 Feb 161#26
I'm struggling. I tried 5 different Burger Kings and keep getting "Postal Code You Entered is Not Valid"
CallOfTheIdiots to scotthodgson08
17 Feb 16#28
Hey buddy use this
M5b 1n8
Toronto
ON
liquidtmd
17 Feb 161#29
If often wonder if the Sony maintenance crew sits and laughs at the data we put in
"So many of our users live at Burger King, and hey this guy liquidtmd lives at the Empire State Building!!!"
stevenjameshyde to liquidtmd
17 Feb 161#30
"More users from the 90210 zip code than anywhere else in America! and over 10,000 PS4s in the White House, incredible!"
6ixFoot1
17 Feb 16#31
I've only played online with my UK disc copy, would that progress be available with this?
darkspace100
17 Feb 16#32
I'm not talking about them being PS2 games. The EU ports are shocking and very inferior to the US ports.
darkspace100
17 Feb 16#33
Yes it is stupid. They could have made them cross buy if you owned it on PS3 or even could have gave a discount. These PS2 to PS4 is a cash grab just like PS Now is. Sony just think they can get away scamming people because they are in the sales lead.
voyager123
17 Feb 16#34
But this deal is for the Canadian version which ARE the American versions I agree the European version are poor that's why I picked them up the last time they were on sale
darkspace100
17 Feb 16#37
Even if they ever manage PS3 emulation Sony will never allow discs. Just look at how they have managed PS2 games on PS4. All they need to do is allow the console to play the PS2 disc but they aren't because they are money hungry. If they ever manage PS3 "classics" which would be pointless as almost every decent PS3 game is getting remastered they will force people to buy them again.
vinster345
17 Feb 16#38
Cool deals, but be aware that the GTA versions have a load of music missing
stephenaberneth
17 Feb 16#39
hey, so what happens after you change your PS4 to canadian account and down load games? can you change back to UK account and play games ok as standard?
silvercondor to stephenaberneth
17 Feb 16#40
You sure can. You're really just switching to the Canadian account temporarily to access their store and initiate the download. Switch back, and once the download's complete, your game(s) will be available to play from the dashboard of your UK account, along with trophies and whatnot. Easy!
stephenaberneth
17 Feb 161#41
thanks for response, sorry, another stupid question, you say you bought 20 CAD voucher, but GTA 5 costs 46 odd CAD, can i only buy a 50/CAD to buy this game and then be left with the 4/CAD diff? or is there another way round it after adding the 20/CAD to my account.
thanks
voyager123 to stephenaberneth
17 Feb 16#42
you are left with the credit in your account, but stuff is always on sale so it will get used but as you have to buy the cards you will nearly always have credit left after what you have bought
Chasloyal
17 Feb 16#43
Very good point that, when you think of this muggy rip off streaming PS Now thing they're doing at 13 quid month, plenty of games on there granted but over 90% of them are pony, like you didn't rate em when they was fresh 5/10/15 years ago so never mind now.
My life I paid only a couple quid more than that for a year's EA Access sub on my Xbone and ok that's not got that many titles but they're all pretty recent games on that, like a year old or so onwards.
I'm going over the trading estate again in a minute so will have my usual daily stalk of that aforementioned PS3, even chatting about in here keeps making my Maestro card itch.
And to be honest I don't even know why I always check their website because that's only got the that monkey mark 2 slim 12 gig on there anyway so I doubt they'll ever do/announce a PS3 promo on there again. It's a case of my local branch having a surplus machine sat on the shelf that never got sold when those various coloured superslim 500 gigs were bundled with a couple of controllers however many years ago that was.
I made the suicidal mistake of selling a mint 'Funtastic' N64 in orange to a mate with a load of games for 50 quid to go towards buying a PS2 on release, the consoles by themselves go for a couple of hundred quid nowadays :confused: can't help thinking this red PS3 may well hold it's price over the years like those N64's have.
stephenaberneth
17 Feb 161#44
sweet, worked a treat, thanks very much, (heat added obviously) completed on PS3, but been tempted to buy again on PS4 as loved it, just gonna start from scratch and enjoy every minute :-)
Martano87
17 Feb 161#45
Currently downloading the GTA trilogy, many thanks! Wish I could give this thread double heat!
silvercondor to Martano87
17 Feb 16#48
Oh, you :stuck_out_tongue:
Chasloyal
17 Feb 16#46
I just checked and I still got $9.52 on my American PSN account I never used from when I bought Stick of Truth at launch with a Cartman avatar, the most annoying thing about that was I couldn't even use the avatar on my regular UK/EU PSN account.
Any DLC add ons or digital extras like avatars and themes stay locked in to the North American account, well I believe they do so if I'm wrong please someone put me right
voyager123
17 Feb 16#47
DLC can be used if you buy it from the region the game is from, and it can be played in your uk account not sure about avatars
Chasloyal
17 Feb 16#49
Perhaps they changed it then, I was under the impression if you had a 'North American' game be it disc or digital you would have to play it on the North American PSN account to access any DLC that comes with it.
As in not just obviously redeeming the DLC codes through the American one but you'd have to stay logged in to that account to play/use the DLC.
I had to register a monkey address in Vermont to be able to buy the US PSN credit off amazon.com the only time I did it, was advised Vermont was purchase tax free at the time
Edit: just to clarify, I played that South Park game on my UK account but had I bought any DLC for it I would have to have played it on the American account to make use of it
Bure11
17 Feb 16#50
I'm unable to check right now but does anyone know if you need to enter card details to take up a 14 day trial of PS+ for the Canadian store?
voyager123 to Bure11
17 Feb 16#51
yep, i've tried and it want card details was going to use the trial plus discount on some stuff i bought in a sale, but sadly you need a card
stephenmichael3785
17 Feb 16#52
There was a ps plus only sale on Canada ps plus and there were a few games I wanted so I managed to purchase a months using my store credit. Still worked out far cheaper, even with the extra £5 odd!
beamaand
18 Feb 16#53
so, I have created my Canadian account. the prices are amazing.. but I would like to know, if I downloaded the DLC map pack for black ops 3.. would it be compatible with my UK disc game?
rko_jpl7 to beamaand
18 Feb 16#57
No it wouldn't be compatible as DLC is region locked.
MrChi
18 Feb 161#54
Downloading the GTA Trilogy. Also, the UK version of the trilogy runs at 50hz PAL whereas the Canadian and US versions run at 60HZ so its a much smoother experience :sunglasses:
beamaand
18 Feb 16#55
it won't let me pay via PayPal. it keeps saying error occurred. does. anyone know how to by pass this hiccup? I have the money in my bank account which is hooked up to PayPal. trying to download all the GTA games. so
stephenaberneth to beamaand
18 Feb 16#56
For me it also said an error gad occurred, but the purchase of the card went through. I went and looked at my orders on pcgamessupply and found my order which gave me the code.
Any chance same happened you?
Squashie
18 Feb 161#58
Fantastic deal on GTA 5. Thanks for this OP, I've wanted it for a while but didn't fancy paying a fortune. Also kudos for including the steps to actually buy it.
Might seem like a silly question but I have like $4 left over after buying the game. Just wondering if I can use that to buy some Shark Cash from the Canadian store and use that cash when I'm playing the game on my main UK PS4 account? Hope that makes sense.
silvercondor to Squashie
18 Feb 161#59
Hey dude! No worries. I don't have much experience tinkering with Shark Cash myself, but I notice there's a $2.99 'Red' bundle on PSN Canada, so I don't see why you wouldn't be able to grab that.
voyager123
18 Feb 16#60
But as long as you buy it from the region the game is from you can play to on your uk account. Got pirate warriors 3 and its season pass from the Canadian store and I can play with the extra stuff on my uk account. Granted you need to download it and install it from the Canadian account fisrt
Whoops didn't read they had the uk disc then no they can't but as I said if you get the DLC and bar game from same store you can
Squashie
18 Feb 161#61
Thanks for the reply! Neither do I, but I suppose I may as well spend that spare that $4 on the bundle that you mentioned and see if it works. I have nothing else to buy on the Canadian store.
silvercondor
18 Feb 16#62
Yeah, that's the downside of buying currency in $20 and $50 bundles, I guess. But there are new deals every week, so inevitably something will come up.
iceman22
19 Feb 16#63
Would it work just paying directly through psn with PayPal? Cutting out the pcgamer middle man?
I keep getting registration failed when trying to make an account for pcgamesupply. Not sure what I'm doing wrong
silvercondor to iceman22
19 Feb 16#64
Nah, you can't pay with card details or a PayPal account based in the UK. I believe it's technically possible to set up a PayPal account with a Canadian address, but it's a little more complicated than the process outlined above.
Incidentally, I think this might be how PSN Canada circumvents its obligation to verify its customers are from Canada i.e. it won't accept foreign cards or PayPal accounts, but if people somehow obtain PSN credit from third parties, well, it can't exactly stop them.
iceman22
19 Feb 161#65
Yeah thought that would be case, I'll email the company and see if they can help with creating an account
Chasloyal to iceman22
19 Feb 16#66
You can buy PSN credit off Ebay, I got no idea if US credit works on a Canadian PSN account though. I am guessing not as they are different currencies.
The Canadian dollar has weakened a lot in recent times and you're always seeing seal clubbers moaning in forums about getting shafted in comparison to those south of the border, about hardware and game prices anyway.
dan4acres
19 Feb 16#67
Can I play online on GTA V on my UK account if I buy this?
I've bought from the US store before, but only single-player games so far
silvercondor to dan4acres
19 Feb 16#68
Yeah, should be alright. I bought Canadian Street Fighter V, for example, and I'm playing online with my UK account.
dan4acres
19 Feb 161#69
Fantastic - thanks very much. Might just have to indulge then!
silvercondor
19 Feb 16#70
No worries, buddy! Enjoy :laughing:
houghy1
20 Feb 161#71
just done this and it worked :-D
took about 10 mins fir the code so be patient.
thanks OP :sunglasses:
johncas
20 Feb 161#72
Thanks for this, been looking for the GTA trilogy even despite some of the music loss as I never completed 3 or SA (I managed Vice City!). Really easy to set up the account and link it up with my PS4 too :smiley:
fmaed
20 Feb 161#73
Thanks for the instructions and the deal! :sunglasses:
Opening post
I created a Canadian account a few nights ago for Firewatch, and took about 20 minutes from scratch. Here's how:
1. created a brand new Gmail address
2. created a brand new PSN account using my browser, with some random Burger King in Toronto as my address, and verified via the new Gmail account
3. signed up for a brand new account on PCGameSupply and verified via text
4. bought $20 CAD on PCGameSupply (via PayPal) and waited a couple of minutes for the code to pop up
5. set up the new PSN account on my PS4, and set my machine as primary (it actually prompts you to do this)
6. went onto the PlayStation Store, and redeemed my code against Firewatch
Get your PSN Canada credit here:
http://www.pcgamesupply.com/buygames/sony-playstation-network-cards/Canada-Region/
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Finally made my Canadian account a few days back, I'd held off using the 'two's company, three's a crowd' analogy beforehand (already have UK and US). But the $2 CD to £1 did it for me.
Funnily enough I've actually been oohing and ahhing about a solitary red 500 gig with two controllers bundle I've seen sat in a shop close by to where I'm located in Austria but I can't justify the €299 tag, if it was €199 I'd have snapped it up straight away.
I go in there and/or look on the retailer's website daily to see if they doing any kind of deal as I will be down there in a shot. I just hope being patient pays off because if someone else grabs it I know I'll end up regretting I didn't get it, even at the higher price it's sat on now.
Last week i swear it was £9?
M5b 1n8
Toronto
ON
"So many of our users live at Burger King, and hey this guy liquidtmd lives at the Empire State Building!!!"
thanks
My life I paid only a couple quid more than that for a year's EA Access sub on my Xbone and ok that's not got that many titles but they're all pretty recent games on that, like a year old or so onwards.
I'm going over the trading estate again in a minute so will have my usual daily stalk of that aforementioned PS3, even chatting about in here keeps making my Maestro card itch.
And to be honest I don't even know why I always check their website because that's only got the that monkey mark 2 slim 12 gig on there anyway so I doubt they'll ever do/announce a PS3 promo on there again. It's a case of my local branch having a surplus machine sat on the shelf that never got sold when those various coloured superslim 500 gigs were bundled with a couple of controllers however many years ago that was.
I made the suicidal mistake of selling a mint 'Funtastic' N64 in orange to a mate with a load of games for 50 quid to go towards buying a PS2 on release, the consoles by themselves go for a couple of hundred quid nowadays :confused: can't help thinking this red PS3 may well hold it's price over the years like those N64's have.
Any DLC add ons or digital extras like avatars and themes stay locked in to the North American account, well I believe they do so if I'm wrong please someone put me right
As in not just obviously redeeming the DLC codes through the American one but you'd have to stay logged in to that account to play/use the DLC.
I had to register a monkey address in Vermont to be able to buy the US PSN credit off amazon.com the only time I did it, was advised Vermont was purchase tax free at the time
Edit: just to clarify, I played that South Park game on my UK account but had I bought any DLC for it I would have to have played it on the American account to make use of it
Any chance same happened you?
Might seem like a silly question but I have like $4 left over after buying the game. Just wondering if I can use that to buy some Shark Cash from the Canadian store and use that cash when I'm playing the game on my main UK PS4 account? Hope that makes sense.
Whoops didn't read they had the uk disc then no they can't but as I said if you get the DLC and bar game from same store you can
I keep getting registration failed when trying to make an account for pcgamesupply. Not sure what I'm doing wrong
Incidentally, I think this might be how PSN Canada circumvents its obligation to verify its customers are from Canada i.e. it won't accept foreign cards or PayPal accounts, but if people somehow obtain PSN credit from third parties, well, it can't exactly stop them.
The Canadian dollar has weakened a lot in recent times and you're always seeing seal clubbers moaning in forums about getting shafted in comparison to those south of the border, about hardware and game prices anyway.
I've bought from the US store before, but only single-player games so far
took about 10 mins fir the code so be patient.
thanks OP :sunglasses: