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.

Sweet!
Good, I hope the GUI is bigger and better !
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???
i hope its before my birthday 20th of april
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
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
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.
see thread into visuals of new site
http://www.ps3forums.com/showthread.php?t=130607
@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...
psn id: gingo.... i hope once the new store is here that they have enough good content to start putting out each week
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
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.
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.
Damn it looks nice... Really.. im serious... epic ! .. :D NICE
@jjjoes
yeah i have an account for every region but i can only buy stuff on the eu account
SD compatible means it does nto take advantage of HD screen real estate. A big no no.
Marginally betetr than what we have. But the fact we get no centent for ages makes it phail hard.
Awesome! I hope it has the cool animations that the Singstrore has, that would make it perfect!
Looks much better, good job.
nice.. Love the new design!!!
Looks a lot better, this is going to happen to all the other regions too right?
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?)
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.
pretty damn sexy!hope its not a web browser
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!?!
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...
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.
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!
I just hope it runs like a normal GUI instead of a slow-ass webpage.
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!
thay looks great
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.
like the store.....yet sad that we will have basically three weeks of nothing new
Nice!
I hope you guys have fixed so that every PSS (PlayStation Store) get the same stuff!
I guess this explains why the CoD4 maps are coming out later.
i love it
ITs good to see that they did this cause the current one is kinda dull and boring
psn id J08hawks
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!!!
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...
good this looks way better then the one we got now, hope they dont delay it
Wow that looks awesome. Well done Sony.
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.
Wow, I actually like the overhaul. I hope they have a major update when this switches over.
oh god that looks so much better.
This looks awsome
Looks good but I have 3 words...............High velocity bowling!!!!!!!!! Where the heck is it????
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!! :)
looks much better than xbl
woopdeedoo