Comments on: PSN STORE UPDATE

By: BENNE77

BENNE77 — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 18:08:06 +0000

@ 43 Shrui
I know where your coming from mate, Sony are one big let down the only things i have been excited about for the PS3 this year where home and UT3 which have both been put back to next year and as for the store i wanted Super puzzle Fighter HD which is America only for some very stupid reason and tekken online havnt got a clue what they are doing with this. But the point im getting to is yeah it will be more fun to own a xbox this christmas and maybe till febuary but after that when this stuff gets released you will be kicking your self big time that you got rid of this black box.
im just trying to make rainbow last me as long as possible im 1850 in the world on TS and have been rising 50-100 places everyday so if my clculations are right I should be in the top 10 by christmas loooooooool well im hoping hahahahaha

By: Shrui

Shrui — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 10:04:32 +0000

I’m starting to get a real bout of pessimism on this now. What will it take to get some action on this?

We could boycott buying anything on PSN but considering there is nothing worth buying recently I’m not sure this will be noticed.

We could all not log in for a week? Would hamper your online play and that means no Warhawk.

Flood the helpdesk at SCEE with emails? Get banned for spamming.

The only thing I can think of is the next showing of EU PSN at a games conference open to the public should get hit. Custard pies, everyone leaves, heckle to hell, everyone turn their back. Something so that when the Sony exec gets dissed by the crowd and gets PUBLICLY embarrassed that someone will take notice.

We could also petition the games sites to highlight the US/EU gap as much as possible. I don’t want this but what else can we do? The way to get these people to take notice is expose them in public.

Sorry its the pessimism thats talking but I’ve got a girlfriend asking me what I want for Xmas and I’m tempted to say a 360 and Ebay the PS3.

By: BENNE77

BENNE77 — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:19:08 +0000

@38
all you need is at a minimum is a visa electron, nothing really worth buying anyway tekkan yes but where is the european online?????????

By: m0thr4

m0thr4 — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:53:34 +0000

Wake me up when Castlevania:SOTN is released on the UK store.

By: snake

snake — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:02:22 +0000

that update sucks. well except for Syphon filter 3, but i cant buy it cuz there aren’t no pre paid cards!! come on sony!!! im also making a fake jap account to download the GT5;prologue demo ahahahahha

By: Snifer

Snifer — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:13:37 +0000

@36 Kevling
I appreciate that some of the content is restricted, Germany is always a problem for publishers. The chances are that those countries that don’t get now though wont get it at all because of either translation or copyright/distribution rights for a particular territory. But I suspect that items are normally delayed because SCEE are waiting for all legal/translation issues to be sorted out before they release rather than getting out as and when they can to each country. Whilst this may cause problems in distribution it’s net effect in good will would far out way it.

By: Kevling

Kevling — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:41:34 +0000

@33

Have another look at the original post. Some of the items are only available for some of the EU countries / languages. This proves that “Europe” is not the real reason these demos/games/items are delayed - items can be released on the EU store to specific countries or languages, so we can stop blaming the fact that we live in Europe for the delays.

The latest Insomniac Games podcast explains that they had no idea that the R&C demo was not going to appear on the EU store on the date it was supposed to, so it’s nothing to do with the developers.

I expect it’s down to the publishers as to whether they want to release a demo or not. For example, if demo “X” doesn not go down well in one territory, the publisher may decide not to release it elsewhere in case it harmed game sales… (I’m just guessing).

As to why the R&C demo isn’t here, only SCEE can answer that question. Perhaps they want to release it closer to the EU games release date (9th November accoridng to Play.com)?

Remember people, demos are not a right. They are simply another form of marketing…

By: DoggySpew

DoggySpew — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:59:35 +0000

Localisation sucks big time if you can’t choose it. Seriously, I am glad that you at least have choice for English in Heavenly Sword, because the Dutch dubbing is done by the voices that do SpongeBob Squarepants. It is hard to take Master Shen serious when you hear him with the voice of Mr. Crabs.

Oh and the reason why I don’t have a bogus US acount to get the US demo’s is simple: It is not allowed under the EULA, and I’m not risking a PS3 ban for that (I’m telling you, one of these days Sony is going to crack down on that).

By: RVanPersie

RVanPersie — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:09:53 +0000

Well looks like Sony are doing their best to kill the PS3 in the EU by totally losing the trust of it’s console owners here.

By: Inzoum

Inzoum — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:46:21 +0000

One thing I’ve always wondered, I’m a Canadian living in Belgium with a perfect understanding of English, my Playstation 3’s language is set to English, I play my games with English text/voices if allowed to select it… Yet I have to deal with downloading very very poor french-dubbed videos from the Playstation Store because the locale is “Belgium-french”… I just can’t stand “Heavenly Sword” being pronounced like a butchered “HÃ©vanlie-SwWueeEeurde” in the cartoons, I want to be able to pick the ORIGINAL ENGLISH version, but the store seems to think it’s best for my health that I don’t get a choice and get the crap french version… at least if it was original+sub and not DUBBED… just give me the Belgian content, I’m ok with that, I’m ok with waiting, but let me have it in ENGLISH, PLEASE, for the love of God…

… Is this possible?