Tuesday, April 15, 2008

PlayStation Store Revamp: Our Verdict

We figured you'd want to hear it since we were one of the major noises asking for a new PlayStation Store. Anyway, the new store is great, there is just two minor complaints that I'll have to make.

1. Slow Thumbnail Loading - this will be fixed in the coming days, so I wouldn't worry much, but it wasn't a fun first experience.

2. No Text Browsing - how much easier would it be to find content if you could switch to text instead of image browsing? There should be an option.
That is really about it. Other than that, we are completely fine with the new store. There is an error however in the Crash Bandicoot 2 PSone Classic. It shows images for a different game under it's preview.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

No text browsing? So redesign the store so they have the titles instead of images?

I think the store is fine now, when they fix the images loading, and adding options that very few people would use is a waste of resorces.

Anonymous said...

think he means like this: http://i27.tinypic.com/2e2ih4j.jpg

id prefer the way it is now, but it would be better to have a choice

Anonymous said...

I still think the extra resorces to get that done, it would have delayed the new store for at least a month. As well from sony's stand point it is not worth the resorces designing 2 new stores.

incredibilistic said...

Browsing by text? Meh...

I think it's great the way it is. We're all visual people so I think having images instead of just text is a better idea.

So long as they resolve the issue of images loading faster I think the Store is perfect. Now, start giving us movies and TV and we'll finally have a service we can brag about against our 360 friends.

Anonymous said...

I can't browse games by title with the Swedish/European PS Store. If I want to find any downloads for let's say Uncharted, I'll have to log out and log in to my US fake account. This fake person apparently lives on Canal Street in New York :D

That sucks, it's such a basic feature it's strange they didn't have it for EU PSS. Since the feature already is developed, why not launch it in Europe too?

thehosh said...

i think its fine now .. dunno.. but erm is onAXIS gonna update the PlayStation Network VS. XBOX Live article?