Comments on: An Official Announcement By Sony Regarding The PlayStation Store

By: shane

shane — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:35:44 +0000

I don’t really have a problem with the current site … I am FAR more concerned about this possible region locking. Although I live in Canada (and thereby get exactally the same content as the US) I am not at all interested in buying my stuff off the Canadian site because they charge an extra $1 for everything for no justifiable reason. (A Rock Band song costs $1.99 US and $2.99 CAD… the CAD dollar is trading at 0.98 US right now… that is just dumb)

By: mikeck

mikeck — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:49:18 +0000

@ JohnSketch

There’s jam in the system, some coding monkey smeared jam from his sarnie all in the system by mistake, and now they’re got to get some special jam cleaning agent in there.

Actually was it to do with jam, or was it about the way the new system for all the stores worldwide is frozen for this maintenance work because of the jam?…I can’t quite remember now

By: andy ipswich

andy ipswich — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:12:02 +0000

it seems like the store finally looks finished. the original version looks like it was slapped together in a bit of a rush. this time, they seem to have taken something from the singstore.

the problem with both the singstore and playstation store? the content. until that gets sorted, and the brits get things at the same time as americans, it wont challenge XBL unfortunately…

By: Dom

Dom — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:01:27 +0000

On a related note, I would like to grumble about the speed of downloading anything from the store. Any download seems to be ’stuck on slow’. My PC makes full use of the a 20mb (7mb in reality) line. Can anything be done about the store’s available bandwidth?

Thanks

By: irblinx

irblinx — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:12:06 +0000

so there’ll be a couple of weeks without any new content, will we notice? I sincerely hope that some of the feedback that they have responded to is that we are hopelessly behind the other regions for content.

The O button for back, as with every other thing on the PS is great news though.

By: JohnSketch

JohnSketch — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:29:26 +0000

@mikeck

..erm…

What are those reasons?

(^_^) . o 0 (Dreams of Home)

By: mikeck

mikeck — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:20:52 +0000

For some reason my last post got bumped down a few numbers, so whilst I’m referring to iapetus in my last post, it doesn’t look like that.

By: mikeck

mikeck — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:18:08 +0000

@60

I’m not disupting you, really I’m not, I’m just saying I know some of the reasons why it has to happen, but I can’t specify this information. Also, I’d probably do a horrendous job of explaining the technical aspects that impede the process, and as such really make them look like idiots.

I just didn’t want people to think it’s because the SCEE team are monkeying around, because really they’re not.

By: mikkelito

mikkelito — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:41:53 +0000

so i guess this means we will have to w8 for atleast 2 weeks for the army of 2 coop demo that whent up on live to day then? if it even comes at all on psn.

By: iapetus

iapetus — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:28:17 +0000

55: Indeed, if only you could. Meanwhile I’ll just point out that I’ve been involved in cases where large companies have switched over business-critical systems with large amounts of data in them before now - it’s kind of my job, you see - and it has never required this kind of downtime.

There’s [b]always[/b] a way to work around significant downtime if you want to. While I’m sure there are perfectly reasonable explanations for this downtime, the redesign and switchover is not a sufficient reason in and of itself.