Big news!
On April 15th, in conjunction with firmware 2.30, the new look PSN will launch with improved navigation, more functionality and a whole raft of new content.
Click the link for more info and pictures…
The revamp comes in response to a survey last year which showed that many PLAYSTATION Store users wanted a better interface and easier navigation. The new design will deliver a hugely improved navigation system, much greater scope for categorisation and a dynamic new user interface.
To accompany the launch, the PLAYSTATION Store will see an exciting selection of content available from 17th April, consisting of the launch of the Metal Gear Online Premiere Beta, building up to the launch of the next chapter in one of PlayStation’s most loved franchises, Metal Gear Solid: Guns of the Patriots. Also available will be Warhawk™: Operation Broken Mirror, a great new addition to the hugely popular Warhawk experience and Lair™: Diabolical Dragons Pack and Skyguard Upgrade pack, offering new and exciting features and functions. There will also be a collection of trailers including the latest for GTA IV, as well as a Sega Superstars tennis demo.
The PLAYSTATION Store revamp will not affect PLAYSTATION Network accounts or the virtual wallet system.
I has to be said.
The European Store looks better than the U.S one.
VAG Rounded Bold plastered on everything for the lose.
Though those icons still need some work.
Metal Gear Online Beta Download = THANK YOU.
Comment by Tony Nibbles — Apr 11, 2008 @ 10:28 am
Nice! want this new store bad!
Comment by JohnSketch — Apr 11, 2008 @ 10:29 am
Metal Gear Online Beta Download (confirmed by Konami to be a open beta)!
Thank you!
Thank you very much!
Comment by Erik Mejer Hansen — Apr 11, 2008 @ 10:33 am
@Tony
You have the Beta?
That the American April 17th Beta or new European?
I have a slip/code for the American but was under the impression we couldn’t participate i.e. region locked??
Comment by JohnSketch — Apr 11, 2008 @ 10:34 am
damned good news ^_^
Comment by JohnSketch — Apr 11, 2008 @ 10:34 am
That’s the special update? If MGS Online is the only special thing about this update, I’m totally unimpressed. So we have an improved store, but still nothing to buy. David Reeves & co: please resign from SCEE ASAP!
Comment by Fred — Apr 11, 2008 @ 10:36 am
Cant wait cheese
Comment by E-ROLE — Apr 11, 2008 @ 10:45 am
@JohnSketch
Read the article.
Comment by Tony Nibbles — Apr 11, 2008 @ 10:50 am
Cripes - had completely missed that entire mention of MGS!
Comment by JohnSketch — Apr 11, 2008 @ 10:56 am
Why o Why is Three Speech so slow on getting new, the updated store release date was dated yesterday. PLEASE WORK HARDER THREE SPEECH.
Also can you explane the Three Speech staff structure so we can see who is not pulling the weight
JohnSketch seems to be keeping this site going all by himself
Comment by Greg — Apr 11, 2008 @ 10:58 am
So does this mean an end to update Thursdays, or are there new processes in place for Sony to manage worldwide stores more efficiently? Would be nice to know what operations are behind the store front. I’m sure we’ll see in the coming weeks.
Comment by MrJimmy — Apr 11, 2008 @ 10:59 am
Woo! Can’t wait!
Also what ever happened to post number 1000? this is number 1001 and the last one was 999
Comment by lxd — Apr 11, 2008 @ 11:00 am
*grabs his walking stick and poop cup*
Old age is settling iiiiiin
Comment by JohnSketch — Apr 11, 2008 @ 11:01 am
No Greg, Sony Japan jumped the gun and announced THEIR store was to be launched on the 15th…SCEE had yet to confirm.
Comment by mikeck — Apr 11, 2008 @ 11:01 am
@Greg
The official announcement of this was at 10am this morning, when the press release was sent out via email and on the SCEE press site.
This article went up at 10.23.
23 minutes to get a blog post together isn’t exactly what I would call ’slow’.
Three Speech operates in the UK and as such, is focused on European news. This news relates to the European Store redesign.
Come on, get your facts right and give them a break.
Comment by Tony Nibbles — Apr 11, 2008 @ 11:01 am
Video walkthrough of the store!
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/201669.html
Comment by NerdUK — Apr 11, 2008 @ 11:02 am
@lxd this is article 1000 (kinda)
Sometimes (if you get bored and poke around) you’ll see that some entries have been created/wiped off face of planet/recreated with counter incrimenting as it goes….
That’s the namby pamby explanation - i like to think of it personally as the Network Pixies stealing news articles in punishment for everyone being naughty and posting whilst meant to be hard at work and getting on with their employment!
Comment by JohnSketch — Apr 11, 2008 @ 11:06 am
Suprised Three Speech haven’t mentioned the DTS Master Audio decoding that also comes with this update - a brilliant breakthrough for Blu Ray fans.
Now… just have to wait until the big tech companies start selling Master Audio capable surround systems!
Comment by Tony — Apr 11, 2008 @ 11:11 am
Employment’s for idiots…
[looks around and notices I too am at work...ooops, should I be posting right now?]
Comment by mikeck — Apr 11, 2008 @ 11:13 am
Also, the video walkthrough is for the US store…
Comment by mikeck — Apr 11, 2008 @ 11:14 am
Nice, checked out the video on the US blog - looks good…
Comment by MrGilder — Apr 11, 2008 @ 11:20 am
@ tony nibbles
thanks!
Comment by three speech — Apr 11, 2008 @ 11:28 am
This is the BEST news I have had all week! Well, apart from booking my holiday to Orlando….but an early store release, MGO open beta AND Warhawk expansion all in one week! HEAVEN!
Comment by elephant_stone — Apr 11, 2008 @ 11:33 am
You know…I really dont see the point of having a PS Store.
Once HOME comes I think they should really be selling stuff in an online shop within HOME.
Comment by komp — Apr 11, 2008 @ 11:40 am
…and Home 1.0? Will Home be opened up to everyone on Thursday as well?.. Come on Three Speech - you’d tell us if you knew something, right?
Comment by reakt — Apr 11, 2008 @ 11:43 am
NEW STORE FTW!!!!
Comment by Genki-rocket — Apr 11, 2008 @ 11:50 am
MGO open beta!
Now that alone is decent store update!
Comment by cr8ck3r5 — Apr 11, 2008 @ 11:51 am
Japan Announced it yeaterday as we all know it is a world wide release.
Comment by Greg — Apr 11, 2008 @ 11:54 am
i believe that would apply to this EU site
Comment by Greg — Apr 11, 2008 @ 11:56 am
To clear up confusion. The MGS:Online Beta is completely open in Europe. In the US you can only access it with a code which you get when pre-ordering MGS4. So we are actually getting the sweet deal for once!
I like the new look store, the transitions and stuff are very like Singstar which is nice and smooth. Hopefully it will be better laid out and less PC-like which always annoyed me.
Comment by TheShirts — Apr 11, 2008 @ 12:23 pm
No Dark Mist?!
Comment by Thargoth — Apr 11, 2008 @ 12:28 pm
best update ever
Comment by bignatt — Apr 11, 2008 @ 12:32 pm
Awesome best update so far! jst wish i didnt waste time getting the JPN beta code for MGS4 when we get an open beta XD so we dont get screwed out after alll
Comment by Marky264 — Apr 11, 2008 @ 12:39 pm
MGSOB for all.. wow
Comment by Wildy — Apr 11, 2008 @ 12:45 pm
WOW!! Im impressed, Finally the Europeans are gettign some love. Look forward to the update and Metal Gear Beta. I have heard nothing about it in terms of what it is like online so looking forward to it.
Thanks SCEE.
Comment by Strider1979 — Apr 11, 2008 @ 12:45 pm
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I reckon we get the open beta cos we deserve it more, are better at games and also girls like us more and stuff, even though we are gaming geeks. Happy days.
Comment by MrJimmy — Apr 11, 2008 @ 1:03 pm
“whole raft of new content.”
lies.
Comment by meh — Apr 11, 2008 @ 1:03 pm
@ Mr Jimmy
I agree.
Comment by Three Speech — Apr 11, 2008 @ 1:13 pm
all looks great.
lets just hope that
1) we can download at a reasonable speed now.
2) sony will update more often or at least update more content weekly.
we will see!!
@greg RELAX! its not a race.
Comment by manley — Apr 11, 2008 @ 1:35 pm
@Jimmy/Threespeech
And we are able to grow our hair long and plat it into cute curls without looking any less manly, Yeah!
Comment by JohnSketch — Apr 11, 2008 @ 1:54 pm
Bit of a stupid question but on http://www.konami.jp/mgo/en/index.html it says that the Metal Gear Online beta is available to download from 17th April, but the premier beta starts 21st April. Does that mean we can download it on Thursday but it won’t be available to play until Monday?
Comment by Matthew — Apr 11, 2008 @ 2:14 pm
Sadly I my hair growing days are, well, falling out.
Comment by LordOfRuin — Apr 11, 2008 @ 2:15 pm
@Ruin,
That’s your own fault for playing condemned2 in a dark room with screaming bodies hanging on your ceiling…
That would make anyones hair fall out!
Comment by JohnSketch — Apr 11, 2008 @ 2:49 pm
I had a mullet once, it wasn’t intentional, I wanted a pony tail but it was too damn slow. We don’t cover haircuts enough here do we?
Comment by MrJimmy — Apr 11, 2008 @ 2:55 pm
great news about the store update! but the firmware update is LAAAMME! HD sound??? WTF? “ooh listen, the lil birdie singing in the tree, in the far distance of the scene sounds like its………well singing in the far distance of the scene!” “ooh did u hear the car screech off in HD?” FUCK OFF SONY! have we all not bought enough of your products to use with the PS3 without you subliminally selling us all HD theatre systems too?
just get on with it, and give us a PROPER all round user interface that should be in-game XMB!! HD sound- do me a favour u muppets. the only ppl who benefit are “HD” sound system owners (once again, HD sound?WTF??) or the ppl ur influencing into spending god knows how many hundreds of pounds on “HD” (pathetic isn’t it?) sound systems!
if any1 on here doesn’t see my point (ul know who u r!) then ur a muppet also!
Comment by gareth — Apr 11, 2008 @ 3:42 pm
@threespeech, can you inform us about the rumors of 1 store 2 rule the world,
@while you @ it, where is hv bowling?????????
Comment by freespeech — Apr 11, 2008 @ 4:00 pm
ooh, look at all the big adverts inviting us to spend money.
2.30 does nothing for me. HD sound? yeah riiiiiiiight.
and as for the content, a couple of demos and add on packs. hardly the uberfest we were promised is it.
Comment by mobiletone — Apr 11, 2008 @ 5:31 pm
Osssum! Yeah I know it’s spelt wrong, just so excited forget how to type for second there
Comment by Mister_G — Apr 11, 2008 @ 5:34 pm
I agree with 43. Sony waists it’s time with nonsense like HD audio, when the ps3 STILL doesn’t have adequate online functionality.
Why are they doing up the store when they never give EU any content?
Comment by meh — Apr 11, 2008 @ 5:53 pm
what happened to the cod4 maps we were supposed to be gettin when the new store launches
Comment by gaz — Apr 11, 2008 @ 6:27 pm
All looks nice and shiny, but still no ability to download restricted versions of games to try before you buy? This is one of the best features of the XBL Arcade as there is no risk. You don’t like the game once you’ve played the demo, delete it.
Don’t worry about all this DTS-MA & in-game XMB!
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Is it just me, or is the “link” missing in the news article above?
By the way, all the improvement to the PSN Store seems to tell me is that Sony got the first attempt wrong and the second, well…that remains to be seen.
Comment by Zed Zee — Apr 11, 2008 @ 10:57 pm
Ah, this is more like it - a web-based store designed to be used with a console pad. How thoughtful!
Comment by rooee — Apr 12, 2008 @ 6:22 am
I’m just really excited about operation broken mirror!
Comment by coster — Apr 12, 2008 @ 8:33 am
@CZW- have u not been on the playstation store before? on it they have “restricted versions” of games that we on PSN know lovingly as ….erm, whats the word?…….demos! thats it demos!
*shakes head in disbelief at the stupidity and simplicity of some ppls minds*
Comment by gareth — Apr 13, 2008 @ 2:03 pm
What time(GMT) will the new PS Store open?
Comment by Marty8370 — Apr 13, 2008 @ 4:31 pm
What the heck happened to the European Playstation forums by the way?
Comment by Goonboy — Apr 14, 2008 @ 10:47 am
@ Gaz…the COD packs were always said to be coming 21 days after the xbox got them…therefore you should see them on the 24th.
Comment by mikeck — Apr 14, 2008 @ 10:50 am
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Super Stardust PAL
The update for SSHD in PAL territories on the new store is faulty. No new modes appear when it is purchased from the new store.
lovely new store other than this issue and the non loading of pictures and the retarded family game section and no psone section. the scea store has better lay out and their Super Stardust upgrade works
Comment by lee — Apr 15, 2008 @ 7:06 am
Why SCEE did you have to screw up the layout on the new PAL PSN store? The US version is so much better.
No section for Demos and no option to view all titles by alphabetical order.
Please take a look at the US store and redo the EU store.
Comment by Kingsgoon — Apr 15, 2008 @ 12:25 pm
I see my post has been deleted…
Comment by Panajev — Apr 15, 2008 @ 1:49 pm
Great. New store is unreadable on my TV (16:9 on 576i). I try to deny it, but they really are a bunch of morons…
Comment by pat — Apr 15, 2008 @ 5:46 pm
Enhanced PS Store! Launches 15th of April!
And it’s CRAP!!!
Ridiculously stupid catagories that beggar belief.
Good old SCEE, straight back to your usual form.
#66 - Couldn’t agree more, 100000000% utter,complete and unadulterated morons.
Comment by Ton Capone — Apr 16, 2008 @ 1:06 pm
“We’ve gathered feedback from users and responded, dramatically improving the navigation system. It’s now much easier to browse the PLAYSTATION Store’s impressive catalogue of innovative games, High Definition trailers and classic PlayStation titles.”
May i be the first to say… Who the hell are they trying to kid? If ‘improved’ means that thumbnail icons take about 7 minutes to load. And ‘impressive catalogue of innovative games’ means about 6 games that any school child could come up with given half an hour with macromedia flash. And i know that given the rules of the english language, more than one thing means that it’s plural and can have a ‘S’ added to the end to indicate the fact, but i wouldn’t be so bold as to advertise ‘classic playstation titles’ if that number didn’t go over single digits. Who are these people that they have taken this feedback from exactly?
Comment by jimmy g — Apr 16, 2008 @ 2:23 pm
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