Monday, March 31, 2008

SCEE Announces Mid-April PlayStation Store Revamp


Sony Computer Entertainment of Europe have officially announced the upcoming PlayStation Store revamp.

“The new design will deliver a hugely improved navigation system, much greater scope for categorisation and a dynamic new user interface,” said the company in a statement.

They state that there will be no content updates until the store relaunches in April. Kind of sucks, but at least the new store is coming. The official screenshots can be seen above and below. View the press release below. [VG247]

PLAYSTATION®Store to undergo April revamp

Customer feedback drives new design, interface and navigation
Updates on hold for two weeks; new-look Store launches mid-April

This April, PLAYSTATION®Store, the online content store on PLAYSTATION®Network, is getting a whole new look and feel – and it’s in response to feedback from the millions of PSN registrants in the PAL region.

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.

Content will be suspended for two weeks while the improvements are carried out but users can look forward to a special update in mid-April.

There will be no weekly content updates between now and the re-launch, although users can still download content from the back catalogue, such as Warhawk™ and Gran Turismo™ 5 Prologue.

The PLAYSTATION Store revamp will not affect PLAYSTATION Network accounts or the virtual wallet system.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Nice. The pictures actually look decent and provide a good description for each genre. I just hope that the PS Store won't be a web page because coming from Sony that just seems really lazy and sloppy.

Simon White said...

Its good to see they can see their own faults and respond to us, the customers. I dont think this is a webpage because i see no mouse there. It looks very slick! I hope it runs well, and no long loading times like currently. It would be good to have those quizzes like on the PS Store! Makes it more fun!

NyghtcrawleR said...

Not a webpage anymore.

And its about time.