PlayStation Store Update – 11th June 2009

Hey Mike, whats up with VidZone? Is the same thing going to happen with Home where we can’t use it unless we are lucky. Looks good though, good to hear they included Call on Me

Friggin awesome update! Vidzone, KZ2 pack, LBP costumes, Overlord 2 demo, COD:WAW map pack 2 and 3 new games!

i’m just really looking forward to MGS and Fallout 3: Operation Anchorage and The Pitt!

Nice job SCEE

Great update, totally!!!

Vidzone not working for me Too much traffic.

You should put in the countries that Vidzone is available in. Seeing it with the EU flag gives the impression that it’s for everyone, but sadly it isn’t.

I hate the “are there trophies for this game” question. Have you been living in a hole? All new release games since around january of this year have trophy support. This question is dated and quite irratating to read

@49: Would probably help if it hadn’t been out on XBox 360 for quite some time, too.

are we getting the sony press conference on the store like we got it in 2008

i just heard of FF VIII coming to PSN!

So, I opened up the store and don’t see the Wolverine DLC and Wolfenstein. Both things I want to get.

Where is it?

Where is FF VII for french ???

Nice update!! I might get WipEout Pulse & Gunstar heroes later in June. Maybe if I can finally buy Rock Band then I’m defiantly getting the Iron Maiden pack!!

Why is there no VidZone in Austria and other smaller countries in Europe? Could you please comment on that, and tell us when you gonna release VidZone for those countries?

We got a lot of disappointed Users on our Website, that would appreciate if you could give us a reason. THX

Nice update but £15.99 for Puzzle Quest!!! I was going to get it but not at that price.

If I get a fatal error does it mean VidZone has died and will never work? Seems that way heh. Guess i’ll play Overlord 2 instead.

mike, ive been an avid fan of sonys since day one of the psx. to this day i still am and have more fun out of my ps3 then i ever have with the last two generations but i must admit im getting a bit frustrated with this constant playing catchup to the us psn. for instance tonight there going to recieve bomberman and we dont have any idea when its going to hit here. also the patches for blast factor and the last guy, dont u guys read the forums, theres a 12 page long post about blast factor and its missing patch from a lot of very angry people and when someone asks the question where is it on this blog all they ever get is we will find out. well its been over a week or so and we still dont know! sony are shooting themselves in the foot, they just dont seem to let people know the answers to there questions! anyway on a positive note a good update today except missing bomberman, in closing please give us a answer bout the patches before we all tear whats left of our hair out! cheers

Hopefully Vidzone will have sorted itself out by the time I get home from work, looking forward to giving it a go.

Lots of goodness on the store today, don’t know which to get first. I think I’ve got a trip to Surf Island on the horizon…

Can we hope FFVII release on the french today?

Not a bad update, the LBP costumes seem a little pricey though – it’s beyond me why little novelty things like Sackboy costumes aren’t the same price of an mp3 single, i.e. around 79p. Do they actually sell well at that price? I can understand sticker packs and level create content being a couple of quid, but not tiny little virtual outfits! Entire character models are only 79p in games like High Velocity Bowling!

I might dust off Burnout Paradise and get the Island, not been interested in the car packs, but the Island seems like a decent expansion to the game.

I do agree that it would be really good to have the file sizes included in your post though (I never understand why it doesn’t tell you this at checkout, but having them on the blog would be a good work around).

Also, what are you paid? I think you should ask for a pay raise/danager money now people know your name – it must be a hard job trying to keep so many people from so many Countries happy each week!!!

Hey Mike

Would it be possible to show file sizes on the blog especially for PSP downloadable games? I know the US blog does it, and it would be really useful to me.

Good update

@42

I’m getting the same error trying to add funds. Last bought FF VII last Thursday. Error code 0×80023102.

Is this widespread?

Hey any news about the Blast Factor or The Last Guy trophy patches?
It’s almost ridiculous how there is literelly no information to be found anywhere about this.
At least outright say: No, you’re not getting it!
But this is just annoying.

Can someone give me a quick idea of what Gunstar Heroes is about and what it’s like?

Will help me decide whether to just wait for Fat Princess in the coming weeks or cough up and buy both

One of the better updates the Store has received. That’s a lot of content to digest!

Also, why are the downloads so slow..
The BP 1.9 patch (of 413 MB) will take 400 Minutes (estimated).

My connection is bad.. but not THAT bad.

Why isn’t Vidzone available in Denmark (DK). I heard some time ago that the service might not come to all countries, but why?

How about telling the size of content in those posts? It would be really helpful.

Another nice update! Keep it coming!

I really must look in to getting Rock Band – RB DLC is so much better than GHWT, and I’m here stuck with Guitar Hero – for which I don’t think I’ve ever bought a single track, not because I don’t want to, but that there’s nothing that really takes my fancy! Not to mention that the RB tracks are cheaper, too.

@72 – same prob here mate… this happened last time a cod map pack was released… [DELETED]poor isn’t it.

Hi Mike,

thanks for the clarification in your response to #67.
But then we may ask, why we are not allowed to purchase content from other stores due to the country limitation on credit cards.

Is it just that each region wants to push their own sales numbers or is there a bigger point behind this?

Technically there is no reason to limit this as it worked not long ago. As far as I am concerned, it is the right of any customer to purchase something whereever he/she wants, so I can’t really see the reason behind the fact of the current policy on the stores.

Would be really great if you can provide us with some more info here and maybe a suggestion what we should do about it.
Just sitting it out with a strong probability that it won’t change any soon would not really be a good way to handle this.

Thanks!

So does ICO pack change LBP from 7+ to 16+?

@72 again… keep trying mate… finally worked for me after about 10 attempts

Why is tokobot still 2 pounds over the advertised price on here from last week?

why are we paying in effect 4 pound more for galactrix than the US (before tax) despite having to wait so so SOOOOOOOOO long for it compared to them. We should have got it cheaper due to scee taking so long ‘localising’ everything.

Why are we being over charged on texas cheat em (from a few weeks back) its £10 here and $10 in the us.

why are we always being treated wrse than the us on almost all accounts almost all the time?

what happened to the global localisation that sony touted last year to start in january gone as i can see no sign of that being in effect?

mind answering any of these questions? (i fight for the customer as you can guess) my complaints from last week still stand as well.

@post 80
Especially considering that we in Germany get maybe 50% of the content the rest of Europe gets and Sony doesn’t think it’s necessary to change anything about that.
It’s just sad.

[JohnSketch]

Missed all of this update!

Was at the Good Food show in birmingham!…equally got rounded up by the BBC to be on Gardeners World!

Too much healthy outdoorsness…not enough sitting in front of a monitor…grr….sunshine….grrr…

@Mike: And that’s all well and good, but the problem from the perspective of gamers is that somehow Microsoft manage to get round all those problems – the vast majority of their content is available across all regions simultaneously, and it’s clearly not a case of them waiting until everything’s ready on the publisher’s end, because when a game hits XBLA and PSN it normally reaches the XBox 360 first.

All being equal, I’d rather pick up the games on PS3, but when it’s cheaper, earlier and better supported to go with the competition that’s a hard decision to make, don’t you agree?

I agree with the guys about the file sizes for downloads. They’re already shown on the US store and the blog. It would be really useful to know how much space you need on your hard drive or memory card before you download something. Is there any chance that these are going to be shown here or on the store in future?

Hi Mike,

Do you know, or could you find out if the new Burnout Paradise DLC can be purchased in the European store, but will run with the US edition of the game. I got my game last year while working in the states, and this is the first paid DLC I’ve been interested in.

As some of the paid content is restricted to specific regions of disk, I’d not be best pleased if I shelled out 9.99 for something that won’t work.

Keep up the great work on the blog!

was hoping for ghost busters demo maybe next week

Mike so you know, you’ll properly see me everyweek when an update comes up to fight for the small guy.Hope you don’t get too annoyed with me in the long run lol.

Btw was sony leing about the globallocalisation process? they touted it around march last year.

We Hungarians never our gate nothing? Would be good!

Looking forward to rediscover FFVII on my PSP, and … nothing. A “bug” with accents in the French version (although I’d prefer playing the English game but PS Store won’t let me), I’ve read. German has accents, Spanish has…and *they* get the game, but not us?
Could we get more information? I don’t understand…

Or you could sell us the UK version, I don’t care, I’d just like to play this great game again.

Chris

Any chance to see FF VII on the french store today ?

@iapetus (Scary Euro Man?)
Exactly.
I didn’t want to mention the competition because I don’t know how it’s handled on this Blog, but I basically wanted to say what you said.
Even the German XBLA has almost none of the problems the German PSN has and is full of USK 18 content. I don’t know how they’re doing it, but it seems it is somehow possible, just not for Sony.

I don t know why but I was almost sure that FF7 will be not here today…
please put the english version!!!!! (as you already did for Red alert, command & conquer and many more….)
I m very very dissapointed…

Big Surf Island is fantastic, but as I drive around smashing up other cars, I can’t help but wander at the lack of CRASH. BANDICOOT. 2.

Come on!

Why is the burnout pack £1.50 more than on xbox live. First psp go, now psn. I’m starting to lose the faith.

It was a few weeks ago when someone on here said that they will find out about the last guy patch, it became available in the USA and I bought it, because of the patch and trophies, I have not played it yet as im waiting for them, I didnt know the UK would not get the patch at the same time, can you now tell me what was found out after this was last asked?

These posts aren’t complete without a question about PSN cards! So I’ll do it again PSN cards for Europe, please thanks?

Ok, bye!

@darrenj1

I don’t think we will ever find out anything about the trophy patches. The Last Guy may come or may not, but the Blast Factor patch was probably lost somewhere in the tubes of the internet.
I just come here everytime to ask about them because it’s kind of funny.
It was said 3 weeks ago that they will pass on our questions about the patches, but if it takes 3+ weeks to get answers about that, I doubt that we will ever see the actual patches.
And those games are even directly published by SCEE! If this blog is supposed to be our connection to SCEE, our way to get information, wouldn’t you say this blog pretty much fails?