so it's open for japan now, i had a quick look on the ps4 store and i am
disappointed
the selection looks fine for the game collection of ps4 games (can't remember if i saw any ps5 ones? maybe they didn't show up on ps4), although idk if the cero z titles will be still unavailable without a japanese credit card which rules out a good chunk of the available ones. there's a bunch i wouldn't mind trying if the ps3 streaming works well
but either i've not found the right section or the ps1/2/psp collection is super underwhelming. seems to be the same as the malaysian store line up which i thought was limited because it's one of the regions that's not getting the full service. but no, it's the same in japan. toy story 2 and two separate worms games, but why. what an odd choice.
i can't remember if i got wild arms from a previous freeplay but i'm like 90% sure i did have ape escape, but when i selected that it wants 100 yen (wild arms was 1100 yen). which makes me think, are you going to charge for the ps4/5 versions in japan? like how the ff7r intergrade ps5 update if you had the ps4 digital edition was iirc free in the west, but in japan i think that was 100 yen. don't know why only ape escape seems to be 100 yen, or if they just aren't counting ps+ freeplay titles even if they're in your library. guess i'd have to wait until they have something i bought up to see if those will transfer over, but it's disappointing it hasn't. i'd be annoyed if you had to pay 100 yen each to reclaim old titles but that's better than 1100 yen (wasn't even the cost of most ps1 classics which went for around 6-700 yen for most games).
anyway boo, you whore. give me my free stuff back