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Sony confirms PS Store overhaul for mid-April (UPDATE 2)

Posted on March 31st, 2008 at 11:14 EDT

After weeks of Internet speculation, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) has officially confirmed plans to restructure the region’s PlayStation Store for the middle of April this year.

As a result of these plans, the company has revealed that there will be no new content updates to the European PlayStation Network until the process is complete.

Back catalogue items will not be affected, however, and users will still be able to download existing content, such as the recently released Gran Turismo 5 Prologue.

Speaking in a statement this afternoon, SCEE commented, “The new design will deliver a hugely improved navigation system, much greater scope for categorisation and a dynamic new user interface.”

UPDATE:

See below for the first shots of the new PAL store:

UPDATE 2:

We've got an image of the US Store too, which is almost identical to the first PAL one above...

Stay tuned.

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posted 10:35am EDT - March 31st, 2008
1

Sweet!

posted 10:36am EDT - March 31st, 2008
2

Good,  I hope the GUI is bigger and better !

posted 10:38am EDT - March 31st, 2008
3

I personally could care less that they are changing the way it looks. I visit it for 3 minutes once a week, ohhhhhhh big deal its going to look different. Where's the ingame xmb info sony???

posted 10:38am EDT - March 31st, 2008
4

i hope its before my birthday 20th of april

posted 10:39am EDT - March 31st, 2008
5

 So I'm not quite sure are they getting what US already has or are they upgrading to something better than US!  Who knows I don't live in Europe so oh well.

 

PSN: DarkJ3JB

posted 10:41am EDT - March 31st, 2008
6

maybe high velocity bowling for ps3 and crash bandicoot 2+3 will make it in after the wait. it would be nice to see a few more classic ps1 games on the PS store. like metal gear solid or abe's odyssey

posted 10:43am EDT - March 31st, 2008
7

7th POST! Great. The psstore needs an upgrade. It could look more professional or something. And btw, can they stop deleting old demos and stuff from the EU PSStore? They delete stuff that's more than a couple of months old.

posted 10:44am EDT - March 31st, 2008
8
hope its PSN with Music at the background just let the browser
posted 10:48am EDT - March 31st, 2008
9
well then there should ALSO be an ps store update that includes everything we would have missed while its getting overhauled! :)
posted 10:51am EDT - March 31st, 2008
10

see thread into visuals of new site

http://www.ps3forums.com/showthread.php?t=130607

posted 10:53am EDT - March 31st, 2008
11

@Kane - what the heck ar eyou on about? everything is still on the UK store that has been thre since day one...well obviously the things i've downloaded are'nt there because they're on my download list...but other that that everything is there that's been there since the start, you just gotta know where to look...

 

personally i don't give a damn how it looks as long as we get quality updates...having said that it would be good if you could select multiple things to purchase before movign them to your basket...buying the characters for PAIN was...well...a pain...

posted 11:02am EDT - March 31st, 2008
12

psn id: gingo.... i hope once the new store is here that they have enough good content to start putting out each week

posted 11:13am EDT - March 31st, 2008
13

finaly the eu is getting something better then the us!

ive been hearing a lot about a home public beta on the 18th of april, this fits in with the "special update" timeframe.

hope it does

posted 11:21am EDT - March 31st, 2008
14

if you think the S is getting stuff quicker just makee a  new accounnt and put  hat your  from the US,, then you get the US store.

posted 11:24am EDT - March 31st, 2008
15

Yeah only the stuff you downloaded disapears but I would prefere it tot be there with a tick or something next to it showing that I have downloaded it rather than looking at the downloaded list.

I have read that it will be April 15th and on CVG it says there will be no update for the store for the next 2 weeks. They also say it is a response from millions of users feedback. I think one major complaint was the lack of content compared to US and to Japan for PS1 games, and how both US and EU stores should see simultaneous updates. So lets hope they listened to that most of all.

Being streamed in the browser didn't help, lets hope thats changed.

posted 11:29am EDT - March 31st, 2008
16

Damn it looks nice... Really.. im serious... epic ! .. :D NICE

posted 11:33am EDT - March 31st, 2008
17
Ahhh yeah! that looks cool! better than the current state
posted 11:50am EDT - March 31st, 2008
18

@jjjoes

yeah i have an account for every region but i can only buy stuff on the eu account

posted 11:53am EDT - March 31st, 2008
19

SD compatible means it does nto take advantage of HD screen real estate.  A big no no.

posted 11:54am EDT - March 31st, 2008
20

Marginally betetr than what we have. But the fact we get no centent for ages makes it phail hard.

posted 11:57am EDT - March 31st, 2008
21

Awesome! I hope it has the cool animations that the Singstrore has, that would make it perfect!

posted 12:26pm EDT - March 31st, 2008
22

Looks much better, good job.

posted 12:27pm EDT - March 31st, 2008
23

nice.. Love the new design!!!

posted 12:27pm EDT - March 31st, 2008
24

Looks a lot better, this is going to happen to all the other regions too right?

posted 12:37pm EDT - March 31st, 2008
25

Sorry, I was unaware of the download list stuff. But yeah, that really sucks that they take them away from their usual place. 'Cos I erase demos and stuff that I don't use, but if i wan't them again, I have to remember which ones I've had before and so on. It's just un-comfy. Hope they change that in the new update.

(btw. I've downloaded Gran Turismo three times now. It doesn't disappear from the original category space. Is it just an exception?)

posted 12:59pm EDT - March 31st, 2008
26

Almost "Live" like.  I like it.  One thing that bothers me is that our UK friends will not benefit right away as usual.  This kind of upsets me and I am full blood American.  Sony needs to remember that there is a large install base there as well.

posted 12:59pm EDT - March 31st, 2008
27

pretty damn sexy!hope its not a web browser

posted 1:03pm EDT - March 31st, 2008
28

good good, that's all good, but what about the US store?? u don't mean to tell us that this "overhaul" announcement was meant for the Europe store only!?!

posted 1:04pm EDT - March 31st, 2008
29

I hope nobody minds, but i'm calling this bogus... April fools from PSU i think ;-).

Wow, this is all over the net, maybe not then lol...

posted 1:10pm EDT - March 31st, 2008
30

SWEEET! I have used M$ interface an hate the blade crap. You keep pressing to reach what you want. I hope that Sony changes the downloading and just install the game for us.

posted 1:15pm EDT - March 31st, 2008
31

Looks good. I usually see Sony's way of thinking when it comes to releases. BUT why not release PS1 games? That really blows my mind. People are dying to buy the games, but Sony is only releasing some average games and some games that I didn't even wanna play back then. I'm guessing third party companies aren't letting them put up games? But even that doesn't make sense, they would only profit!

posted 1:15pm EDT - March 31st, 2008
32
if this is april fool ...
posted 1:25pm EDT - March 31st, 2008
33

I just hope it runs like a normal GUI instead of a slow-ass webpage.

posted 1:25pm EDT - March 31st, 2008
34

From the Playstation Blog, new post from Posted by Susan Panico // Sr. Director, PlayStation Network:

"This morning, SCEA announced that the PLAYSTATION Store will be revamped with a new look in mid-April. We’ve heard your calls for a more fluid Store interface, and we think you’ll be pleased with the results."

That means that at least American and EU are getting the new store.  Most likely all the world is.  Woot!

posted 1:52pm EDT - March 31st, 2008
35
it's going to be easier to select the catergories i like that it's going to be better than the old one
posted 2:03pm EDT - March 31st, 2008
36
Good lookin'
posted 2:37pm EDT - March 31st, 2008
37

thay looks great

posted 2:51pm EDT - March 31st, 2008
38

PSN ID:tatti_______________ It's funny that they focus on every thing else except ingame XMB, i'm looking forward to the overhaul but they should compliment Ingame XMB with it.

posted 2:53pm EDT - March 31st, 2008
39

like the store.....yet sad that we will have basically three weeks of nothing new

posted 3:17pm EDT - March 31st, 2008
40

Nice!

I hope you guys have fixed so that every PSS (PlayStation Store) get the same stuff!

posted 3:54pm EDT - March 31st, 2008
41
Wow! Thats actually interesting and look forward to this!! I see they went with the singstar type of store, this looks very userfriendly and interesting...
posted 5:50pm EDT - March 31st, 2008
42
The update should be up by the 17th of April, at least thats what the PS Blog says.
posted 6:11pm EDT - March 31st, 2008
43

I guess this explains why the CoD4 maps are coming out later.

posted 6:37pm EDT - March 31st, 2008
44

i love it

 

posted 7:02pm EDT - March 31st, 2008
45

ITs good to see that they did this cause the current one is kinda dull and boring

psn id J08hawks

posted 7:10pm EDT - March 31st, 2008
46
I like the look of it, It needed a new look. sounds like it could be simultaneous. If so thumbs ^ Sony! Now they just need to pump out the content, that NA has, for EU
posted 7:12pm EDT - March 31st, 2008
47

Regardless to some of the comments made on this thread by a few negative people, I think the new store looks great!!

Some people kill me; you ask for a better store, Sony gives us 1, and you still cry about it. They don't HAVE TO give

us anything, but they choose to because they know it will make us happy. Those people are negative about everything

and the world will never be right for them, EVER!!!


posted 8:06pm EDT - March 31st, 2008
48

Where is HOME? Where is IN GAME XMB? I could care less about the ps store cause i visit it for less than 5 minutes a week just to see what is in there? Fix the things we need first and worry about minor changes (like redesigning the ps store ) for later. How come Sony makes such a big deal over such minor changes? Riddle me that Sony...

posted 8:27pm EDT - March 31st, 2008
49

good this looks way better then the one we got now, hope they dont delay it

posted 9:06pm EDT - March 31st, 2008
50
Man, that's great. Cant wait. And it looks application based, rather than being run off of a web page, which is what I've been askin for the whole time.
posted 11:04pm EDT - March 31st, 2008
51

Wow that looks awesome. Well done Sony.

posted 11:29pm EDT - March 31st, 2008
52

Can't complain with those hot looks! I'm very pleased with the new design, and this new interface looks great for quick browsing through the store. Great work Sony.

posted 1:10am EDT - April 1st, 2008
53

Wow, I actually like the overhaul.  I hope they have a major update when this switches over.

posted 1:56am EDT - April 1st, 2008
54

oh god that looks so much better.

posted 2:24am EDT - April 1st, 2008
55
2.30 will also be coming with this as thy sd the store will need firmwire update but dno w/e is there gna be in it.....maybe...cud it be the .....NAH!
posted 2:25am EDT - April 1st, 2008
56

This looks awsome

posted 5:23am EDT - April 1st, 2008
57

Looks good but I have 3 words...............High velocity bowling!!!!!!!!!   Where the heck is it????

posted 7:13am EDT - April 1st, 2008
58

I want to be albe to change the background into any pic I want! Or atleast change the color!!  Maybe even some sound effects or background/elevator music (LOL!).  Better still, our own music from our hard-drive!! :)

posted 4:15pm EDT - April 1st, 2008
59

looks much better than xbl

posted 12:56pm EDT - April 29th, 2008
60

woopdeedoo

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