‘Heads-up’ PlayStation Store update, 23rd January 2013

Are the toca games coming to the store please answer

So again, it’s an absolutely TERRIBLE week to be a Vita owner, and an Australian. One Vita release which judging by the comments on the post specifically about Doodle God, is another overpriced port of a phone game.

The Corpse Party games would have been nice to own, except Xseed releases them to western audiences, and they’re totally worthless. Any time you bring up them making the effort to get more profit and release their games in Australia, they whine like babbies about the fees to get a game classified here. Because they would totally never make back the LESS THAN FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS IT COSTS. If business is so bad for them that under $500 is going to break the bank, they should die off now, so somebody who’s actually interested in releasing games to everyone can have a shot.

Don’t know if this is right place, but checked the PSN store today. Few of my games which I have bought previously, are saying now I can buy them. Exited the store, went back on, and now more games I have already bought are like this.
I can still download them from my download list, so no worries.
But still would like to know what’s happening

Just posting here seeing as it’s about the store update, and this just happened today.

Can you PLEASE cut down on all the non-game avatars and themes? It’s a chore going through them all in each update when all I’m interested in is game content. It’s the PSN equivalent of browsing through a DS section in a store; I’m looking for Castlevania but all I’ve got to go through mountain loads of “My Petz”, “Babiez” and all that other shovelware to get there. And that’s exactly what those terrible themes/avatars are, shovelware.

And uh, Dead Space 3 and Metal Gear Rising demos, not the full games. Might want to change that in the update.

I might well be in the UK, but I don’t waste my time looking at and waiting for content from USA who seem to get stuff before we do. I’m not interested in looking longingly and what I can’t have. I’m 36, I’ve learnt how to be patient and wait for the things I want rather than behaving like the truculent children the majority of you come across as. Sooner or later it will get a release, in the mean time I’ll play something else.

Does anyone know why I can’t post comments using the iPhone app even though I’m logged in?

Hey Jawad!

You mentioned earlier that Persona 4 is coming on the 22nd Feb – just to be precise do you mean Vita or PS3 version?

Is there something wrong with the ps store?
I enter and as soon as it loads it just stays there as if my controller is dead.
The controller and PS3 work fine otherwise. I can’t do anything in the store. There is no input.

Hello Jawad, would there ever be a chance for Street fighter alpha 3 to come on PSN? It was out on PS1. Alpha 1 & 2 are out on ps classics & even 3rd strike is out on the store but Alpha 3 was my favourite. Any chance? Thanks

How come since the maintenance on the 23 that all my game take forever to log in and never stop glitching and jumping and my ps3 seems to have less signal going to it, even though nothing has changed in my set up?

lol @ prim and proper Denzel the avid defender of the helpless SCEE and it’s affiliates, and his chastisement of us mere mortals who dare to complain……. what a hero

Loved the new avartas really keep it up.

When are we going to finally get The Legend Of Dragoon?

This is getting ridiculous now, it’s one of the most requested games to be put in the PS1 classic’s section (I question what Sony considers a classic with a lot of the games that are there) for years and the USA has had it for over 8 months!

Please don’t say there are localisation issues as Sony published the game in Europe themselves! Give us the USA version if you have to!

I’m sorry if this comes across as rude but I (like many people) am sick of waiting for this game while being told “we are looking in to it” every time the game is asked for. It shouldn’t need looking into, it’s a Sony made game, a Sony published game and Sony own the rights to the IP.

I know this comment is going to be over looked by Jawad and his goons but I’ll rant anyway.
What is the problem with releasing vita games in Australia? More than half of the games that have been released in the past few weeks haven’t been available here. We ar paying customers as well, in fact we payed more than the US. I would expect better service than this if the vita was free. Why should I support sony when they can’t even deliver what other regions are getting?

when is wwe wrestlefest being released in uk?

Hey Jawad,
I asked Fred in another post about whether Ni No Kuni would still be made available to people who pre-ordered (or not) the game on the PS Store for download on the 25th, and he said he’d look into it but never replied.

Can you answer this? Will it be available on the Store on the 25th or 1st of Feb?

Thanks in advance!

@205 I have issues using the app to post aswell, have to use my phones browser and I have a galaxy s3 so I think its a bit of a glitch in the app but oh well

I have to disagree with you though on the whole cutting sony some slack… I also live in the uk but I sympathise so much with those who don’t (unless they’re in the u.s of course haha). Even though it doesn’t affect me its extremely depressing to check this post every week and see a huge list under nearly every game of not avaiable here or there or damn well anywhere but the uk and as such I can understand why anyone living outside the uk gets pretty bloody angry at the team each week. Even living in the uk its easy to find stuff to complain about.

Although I will admit mostly its not the blog teams fault, its the higher ups however: 214 posts from member opposed to 22 replies. If Jawad is too busy to reply then shouldn’t there be a dedicated “replyer”? Id happily do that if there was some access to juicy release dates I’ll be honest even if theres no new information in a reply as long as its polite I feel much better and a bit calmer for a bit haha, that would be all it would take to make people feel looked after. Treat us like the valued customers they should be.

Although I will admit mostly its not the blog teams fault, its the higher ups however: 214 posts from member opposed to 22 replies. If Jawad is too busy to reply then shouldn’t there be a dedicated “replyer”? Id happily do that if there was some access to juicy release dates I’ll be honest even if theres no new information in a reply as long as its polite I feel much better and a bit calmer for a bit haha, that would be all it would take to make people feel looked after. Treat us like the valued customers we should be.

Oopsie. Lots of posts. I blame that on you too sony mwahaha :p

Also noticed someone requested chocobo racing, id like to second that and add ergheiz. I was waiting forchocobo racing to be released on 3ds as was rumoured at its launch but nothing so far so please try and get it on here never had a chance to play it

important must read Jawad

Dust 514 isn’t free i repeat Dust 514 isn’t free
as i downloaded PSN Dust 514 from your psn store i entered Dust 514 says to play Dust 514 severs you must enter your PSN Email i did then a Dust 514 email was sent out to my PSN Email i go into my Email click on it then says thank you for joining Dust 514 severs we have taken £11.99 from your PayPal account for your monthly sub

This is an OUTRAGE!

Thanks for the prejudice against Australia and New Zealand Sony. You never fail to let us down.

Love, Australia and NZ.

Downloading The Cave demo, the game looks interesting.

DenzilOshamen

How many times must I say it?
Sony( not blog pers.) is much responsible for how people react, by the way how they respond or not.

Sony has opted for separate store and not a store like ms.
1 = that it ensured that the correct language in the store on PS3 (German and French languages ​​are an insult to a Flemish person.)
2 = no more letters than the alphabet in the psn store!
3 = Europe is a continent where (sony)they are until now still do well, but if all the smal countries not to important in the eyes of sony.
Can it happen that all those small markets, which together are big is going to say by by to sony.
we find that only sony europe loves uk. Germany. Spain. France. italy. service level10 x better , come in our contri ore have same low treatment we are geting .

I only need english in games and should not wait because those few small countries ( u cal big ore love sony )above are stubborn and need al games in their language .

continu
if u put the Netherlands+ the Flemish peopel from Belgium to gether
u have market +- equal to uk ore bigger

France + Walonie of Belgium to gether = same

Germany + littel amount of germain pers. in belgium also to gether .

Would have picked up Demon’s Souls with some PS Plus discounts.

@224: Don’t resist it, just get it. It’s worth every penny/cent/your currency.

I also had trouble finding Corpse Party: Book of Shadows, finally found that it showed up in the search, even though it’s not listed in “Newest games”!

I’d complain about the store system/layout, but then again I don’t really think the other game stores (XBox Market, Nintendo eShop) are necessarily that much better.

Hi Jawad,

I see no ps2 classics. Will next week’s update contain some ps2 classics? I’d like to see GTA VC and Max Payne 2. Any chance they will be available in the near future?

For this update the Zombie Driver is a potential buy. Downloaded the demo yesterday, so tonight I’ll see if I want the full version

Why are the Yanks getting so much more updates and games?!?! It really looks like no one gives a damn about UK users.

Ppl please be aware dead space 3demo not working i downloaded last nite after starting it my ps3 just froze then desided to shut down thought iwould give it 5mins before puting on again but ps3 will not swicth on phoned sony explained wat happened and was told i would have to pay 130 bucks to get a replacemet witch is realy not on the ps3 its self is just 13 month old also a slim 1 also i might add i realy dont play ps3 that much. So please ppl be carful about this demo. Ty for reading

To everyone that purchased Uncharted 2: Digital Edition:

The software is currently in breach of the ‘Sale of Goods and Services Act 1979′ – specifically, the goods are ‘not as described’ and ‘unfit for intended purpose’ (i.e. not compatible with the advertised DLC).

Phone customer services and point this out, they are legally obliged to refund you IMMEDIATELY. If they fail to do so, call Citizen’s Advice and lodge a complaint.

I deal with cases like these all the time, and while software is shaky ground where the law is concerned, you definately have a case here. Don’t leave it too long or you’ll lose the right to complain.

To people with PSN Store problems – the maintenance process left as plethora of bugs as usual. The same issues occurred for me last time and it took a month for me to be able to access the store.

No official statements were made, they just bodged it back together ‘on the quiet’.

Expect the same to happen again, i.e. it’ll be fixed when it’s fixed.

“Posted on 23 January, 2013 at 8:54 pm by nezhet10

But there is only one vita game
here in store there are always same games. Now there are just cause 2, and deus ex…Deus ex was in xmas sale and just cause was for free a little while back. And next week there are maybe mafia 2 and blaaa blaaa blaaa. And what we get for free, well bioshock 2, vanquish, RDR….Old games. In 2012 you said that ps vita sale are coming soon and now the year is 2013 :O…This was my first time and also my last time when i bought a ps+!!”

And this is what you get Sony.

MANAGING EXPECTATIONS, I really can’t push this message enough. Since early December it is said EU will get a PSVita sale with deals like how USA got great PSVita Xmas deals.

We’re 2 months on in time and counting. And still the same ‘more coming soon’ answers in this blog. The definition of ‘soon’ in my book is week/weeks, not months.

So everyone saying ‘oh don’t cry so much about PSVita and deals’ either:

1. Don’t own a PSVita or don’t play it;
2. Don’t know the definition of the words ‘coming soon’.

Now WHEN the PSVita sale for EU arrives, it better be really REALLY good. And soonish too.

I just noticed that in this update NISA released a lot of avatars from different games, but only Mugen Souls ones are visible in Polish store, any particular reason as to why?

Guys what about Ninja Gaiden Sigma?? The US Store got it so what about us? Please bring it to EU PS Store please

@230 i now have a broken ps3 due to a ps store download sony want 130 pound for a replasement wat am i supposed to do i cant afford that kind of money i have 3 mouths 2feed the ps3is only 13months old i think sony r forgeting about its costumers these days and more itrested about taking our cash more to the point im left with a broken ps3 thanks 2 sony psn store Thank you sony you r the best

when will wipeout fusion and youtube come?

and do you need 2 players for the invizimals app to work

ok
So i purchased the dlc for wwe wrestlefest-thinking the game is coming out soon,and yet there is no word on the game.If the game does not come out ,do i get a refund??
Thanks

Anyone know whats up with the unfinished swan demo its not downloading

You still not giving us an answer so i will tell you what the whole world knows but SCEE: RESIDENT EVIL 2 WORKS RESIDENT EVIL 2 WORKS RESIDENT EVIL 2 WORKS RESIDENT EVIL 2 WORKS RESIDENT EVIL 2 WORKS RESIDENT EVIL 2 WORKS RESIDENT EVIL 2 WORKS RESIDENT EVIL 2 WORKS RESIDENT EVIL 2 WORKS RESIDENT EVIL 2 WORKS RESIDENT EVIL 2 WORKS RESIDENT EVIL 2 WORKS RESIDENT EVIL 2 WORKS RESIDENT EVIL 2 WORKS RESIDENT EVIL 2 WORKS RESIDENT EVIL 2 WORKS RESIDENT EVIL 2 WORKS
PUT THE GAME BACK IN THE STORE!!!!!

Lol and you can make a American account to get the youtube app but it freezes all the time and takes ages to buffer lol its kinda useless the browser youtube is much better

@221. Why lie ? There is so much wrong with your comment that no-one would ever believe this could happen

@243 my youtube app works fine had no problems with it so far :p

Hahahaha ok ok might just be mine then

@daxx619

It’s what he does. His username used to be the same with only one – at the end.

@Fred (if he is reading this) or even you Jawad if you can help out with this question

Is there any plans of a post this week from Elizabeth Tobey about Defiance? Or even anytime soon

3 days ago the US blog got another one from her about the limited editions they will be getting. I checked our retailers for our editions and the price just doesn’t seem to match so I don’t think we will be getting the same package. Would been nice to see her write a post like that in our blog so we know what will be in ours. Stores like GAME has listed what is in it but looks a little different. Also the ultimate edition doesn’t even mention the season pass. I have a bad feeling this will be a repeat of The Last of Us with the US getting the better stuff.

In the Plus section on the main IGC menu when you scroll to the right, JSR and Pinball Arcade has PS3 labelled down instead of PSVita as it should be. Please forward this misleading labelling to the Store team. Thanks.

FYI: Pinball Arcade is free to both Vita and PS3 to PS+ members, not just Vita.