Memory card is locked

By far the most up-to-date firmware update for Sony's PlayStation Vita introduces an entirely new, unadvertised restriction: it now locks ps vita memory card on your single PlayStation Network account. It is a new inconvenience for Vita owners and also requires signed up for multiple PSN accounts gain access to the PlayStation Store in other regions.

Prior to firmware 1.80, Vita owners had the choice to obtain and store content from multiple regions using one PS Vita storage device. Although switching between PlayStation Network accounts inside the Vita was clumsy ?a multi-step procedure that required "restoring" one's Vita ?it lets users enjoy PS Vita games that exist from Japan, America, and Europe for a passing fancy PS Vita storage device.

The current system update, released earlier immediately, now requires Vita keepers to format their vita memory cards once they switch accounts. The answer is to obtain another PS Vita storage device.

That's a very painful change for Vita owners inside wake on the system's newly added support for original PlayStation games. While European PlayStation Store boasts 129 PSone Classics together with Japanese version greater than 200, the North American PlayStation Store offers just nine for download. Vita owners have owned a workaround to obtain PSone Classics previously purchased inside PS3 because of their ps vita adapter, however it is still an extremely smaller list.