‘Heads-Up’ PlayStation Store Update (20th August 2009)

I was looking forward to give the demo for DIRT 2 a try, but it’s not on the portuguese store.

CHANGE your policy SCEE. Make it one EU store only or create a worlwide submission for content. Whatever method you choose, just freaking CHANGE! We are so fed up with mistreatments.

Hello
Great update, nice with the WET demo didn’t expect that to come so early.

I was wondering, have you any idea when Digger will be released on PSN?

From Kenneth

Where are the Sony Press Conferences? None on the UK Store? Will it only be for German PSN Accounts?

where the hell is the dirt2 demo?

Can’t find content in the store. I wanted to get WET and DIRT2 demo’s.
And what is up with Home? The congerence was later than prommissed and the video quality was BAD!!!!

Hi,

Am I the only one who cannot see the “Gamescom Sony Press Conference Part 1″ to 4?

Thanks

Hey Mike if your still reading what gives about the dissidia demo? i mean having to download it from the ps3 why?

Same question i’ve been asking for the past 5 or 6 updates..: where in earth is mgs1… this is like THE greatest game ever and im just too lazy to plug in the old playstation (plus i wanna play it portable).. there’s isnt even being given a reason..i mean it already released ages ago in the japanese store and recently also for the american store, so i really dont see whats taking so long for the european store release :s i remember making a japanese account just for this game and then i still couldnt get it cause i couldnt put euro’s on my account (you’d figure they change the euro’s to yen for you automatically, but aparantly i had to buy japanese pre paid cards to add yens to my account, so that was out of the question too)..anyway MGS1 is what we need to see on there..

Why in the US Store there are tons of theme and wallpaper and we get only one theme for week?

There are problem for release theme and wallpaper too?

hazel, if you read mike’s answer, smash cars is coming next week, people are not satisfied are they, they want all the things in the world at the same time, it’s not going to happen is it, if something is not published on the store it won’t come out will it

Why are Gamescom Sony Press Conference videos not showing up?

@stonesthrow:

you’ve probably the got the same answer for the last 5 updates. MGS1 is published by konami, not by sony!! konami did not submit it for the european store, so sony can’t put it on there. whineing to sony, where is it?, where is it?, where is it?, is not going to change anything. go the konami boards and ask there..

@spedfrom:

one EU store is just not practical. worldwide submission for content can’t work either, though i see no reason why they can’t make it easier in the SCEE region. just give publishers a form or something which says we have a PSN store in these regions, please tick which ones you which your content to be considered for.

..wish your content to be considered for.

edit button needed!!

Hi Mike

Please look into FF VII in THE store.. IT can no longer be found.

i really like the way the ps3 in america is $299 and in europe its 299euro. i like that, what kind of crazy Currency Converter do you guys use??? god and how all our prices are the same in dollars which means we pay more for our PSN store items especially during the economic crisis.
i think $299 into euros is somewhere around 210 euro the least you could do is make it 250 here in europe. i didnt think sony were like microsoft. your doin a really crappy job with money.
oh by the way i was being sarcastic

WET is one awful game. I didn’t know people still used the PS2 engine for PS3 games…

@AceAssassin:

$299 is the US price with 0% tax
€299 is the Rep.of.Ireland with 21.5% tax

without the tax it is less than 250.

@lovedoctor:

strange. FFVII is still in the UK store. (Under PSP games, then PS1 classics).

@cringles:

i guess that’s what they mean by “unique retro film visual treatment”. it looks like PS2 so we’ll call it retro!

Great update guys, especially love the Street Fighter Zen Pinball table. It has to be one of the best pieces of DLC around.

WOW, awesome update! demos are the life blood of the PSN. before i had heard nothing interesting about WET but now i am strongly considering a purchase!

still no Trine i see, and with it now going on sale on PC via steam I am tired of waiting to see if it might come to the PSN, i know it’s not your fault, but seriously it beyond a joke.

either way a great update, more like this wherever possible! and throw in some more PSN games!

good update, nice demos!!!

Any news about the Ratchet&Clank update for LittleBigPlanet?

@309, as Mike answered me in the previous update post : MGS1 publisher still hasn’t decided to publish in SCEE territories.

Judging from Mike’s answer back then it seems most 3rd party publishers don’t know there is an SCEE.

But I still don’t understand that when there is customer demand and publishers are lacklustre, why is there no incentive from SCEE to get those publishers to finally consider releasing there content here.

No Dirt2 in denmark… well gotta check my UK acc. then

I’m sorry, but I couldn’t find WET demo yesterday… I’ll be taking al look in a few minutes again, but I really couldn’t find it and there’s nothing in the OP/article about it…

any chance of the gamescom conference video to be put on the australian store? please

@323 neither do sony it seems at times.

what exactly is wrong with the conference videos anyway, surely this is one situation where you can’t lay the blame on localisation.
great update but i still want to watch the conference, a live blog where somebody’s typing a short summary of what was said and interspersing it with what they think are funny comments just isn’t the same as watching it.

is there going to be a demo for Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2?
im still iffy on that game a demo would seal the deal.

Mike, could you please answer my question (comment 325); doesn’t Holland have a Wet demo, because I really can’t find it

Where is the Dirt 2 demo ?? as far as i know it aint in sweden/norway/finland/denmark and poland cmon fix this mike

@ Mike, too bad, well at least Holland has the other 3 (4 with PSP demo), and they’re nice

I’ll just look at the US Store, perhaps they have it, and else I’ll download it from the UK Store…

Yeah reguarding the PS1 classics. I know a lot of the issues with the PS1 classics has to do with the european publishers of the games example Resident evil 1, 2, and 3. The america versions were published by Capcom so they have no legal issues like licensing but the European versions were published by Eidos and Virgin Interactive. The problems with this Eidos now belongs to Square enix and Virgin Interactive is no longer. So Capcom is having trouble bringing us these games.

I’ve a few things to say about this. 1/ Why hasn’t Sony made clear that this is the issue with these PS1 classics here in Europe. I found this out from Capcom after a not so nice post in there forums and this was recently. For about a year I was clueless on the PS1 situation and 2/ Can’t Sony do more to get these PS1 classics to the SCEE area. Theres always quicker ways to do something.

Oh and by the way MGS1 was published by Konami in america and in Europe so why havn’t the SCEE territory got it yet. It doesn’t suffer the faith of Capcom classics

1 other thing. I don’t have a PSP and although theres some great games coming out for the PSP this and next year, those games have better versions on the PS3. The only reason I’d be interest in buying a PSP is if I can play all the good PS1 classics that got me into the Playstation brand on it. SCEE isn’t giving me this choice at all. I’m 24 years old. I can’t be playing games like James pond or disneys hercules and playing PS1 games on a 42 inch HD tv doesn’t really work

I was just curious if the WET demo had unforeseen problems(and couldn’t be added as a result), Or if it simply hasn’t been added to the store just yet.

I waited all day yesterday that store will be updated, and finally when it was updated, there was only three demos not 4 as promissed, DIRT was missing, at least in my region.

@ Mike Kebby

No it isn’t, I just looked, but I’m now downloading it with my special-for-this-made UK account

Mike, I know you’re not in charge of the singstore update and I feel bad for bothering and asking you (since Nina seems to be unavailable at the moment). Do you have any idea when it might get updated today? Even though I’m guessing you might not know the answer to it (had to give it try at least)

Awww it’s okay, I gotta be patient it seems. It is a good update, so it’s gonna be worth it eventually. Thanks for taking the time to reply to my silly question (knew it! lol)

it seems there’s always a problem with PSP store content mike

to much crisps and juice for the store guys lol

In portuguse store the demo Colin McRae DiRT 2 does not exist.

Hello Mike, i want to ask a question that until now have not seen any concrete information.

I have a PS3 60GB, with the new firmware 3, I will also be without the other. Or will be available?
There will be more updates with PS2 games with the 3 firmware?

Nice week for the PSP, and pretty fair pricing on the full games. Though it does make you a bit picky.

Hopefully we’ll see newer games as well for around €20 instead of €40.

mike, i was only half joking about the localisation thing in my last comment, but you are wrong about one thing.
localisation is excuse/reason nearly always given by somebody at scee when they are the only people to delay something.
i won’t bring up the whole sfiihd mess again

but thanks for explaining the reason for the lack of conference videos, it has been a great update this week apart from that one thing missing.
any idea when they will go up?

Ok… Where the F… (you know what i wanted to say), is Dirt 2 demo on portuguese PS Store?! Iv’e payed 400 euros to have the same content of entertainment, that everyone has in europe. Come to Portugal and you will see that we have bought a lot of ps1, ps2, psp and ps3, we r pretty loyal to u SONY.

hi mike, is it possible for the latest psp firmware update to be added to the store as a psp download for people who dont have a wireless network or p.c?…….. you could even charge a small fee to cover bandwidth costs

Mini Ninjas blew me away! What a great surprise! I absolutely adored the demo.

When will the conference? Next weeks update? Or before then?
Thanks.

Conference vids next weeks?

You see that dot in the distance? Yepp, that’s the boat SCEE, you missed it. :P

Hey Mike, do you get the download size info when you put up these posts? If you do could I ask you to include it along with the rest of the info.
For those of us on capped data plans

What happened to WET and DIRT2 demos in Poland and Scandinavia? I know it wasn’t submitted, but why? SCEE seriously needs some unified standards.
It’s ridiculous that some stores don’t get stuff for no apparent reason.

LMAO, Mike you made my evening so far. Comic genious.

You’ve redeemed all of SCEE, thank you.