‘Heads-up’ PlayStation Store update 20th February 2013

Hi Jawad.

Is Metal Gear Rising hitting psn soon? Konami promised day one digital release sometime ago.

Lots of intressting stuff this week. Persona and Ragnarok looks so tempting.

Is there any chance of Psychonauts coming to PSN soon? The Americans already have it, so it shouldn’t be a big problem, come on. And I mean it in earnest, I’m dying to play it.

You almost have me, Sony. Very close to getting a Vita because of The Golden, just waiting to see one in a sale/a slightly more affordable price.

Any news on capcom avatars?

…why does there seem to be even less PS+ content this month than previous ones? I mean I get you are giving away space for PS3 games (which is what I paid for) to make room for mediocre Vita ones (which I have no interest in, why is there no single purchase option, there likely will be in America -.-) but even then there seems to be less content than other months?

CRYSIS 3 £59.99 EU —> CRYSIS 3 $59.99 (£40.00) SCEA …

I Do Hope EA Goes the same way as THQ did,

It’s “Ys” not “Y’s”.
That is all.

Any word on whether us the European regions will be getting free PSN credit, as people in the American regions have been receiving free $5-10 vouchers throughout the day?

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=514345

A friend of mine decided not to make a European PSN (on his Euro PS3) and made a US account instead and has been rewarded with cheaper games, more variety and one of these vouchers. Are we going to be screwed over again, or get to share the love this time around?

Why is Urban Trials not available in Denmark!?

Hi, Are we gonna get Counter Strike in EU? Thanks

Come on man.. please bring Gauntlet 2 back to PSN Jawad!!!

This is a freaking good day.
Persona 4 Golden finally out (2 days before retail release).
Somioni out almost every where.
New costume packs for All-Stars.
And today we will hear about the PS4.

Hey Jawad will we be able to pre-order Sly Cooper on the store or will it be a case of getting it on the day? Also the pre-order bonuses will we be able to get them if we buy digital?

Just wondering what’s up with the store that we can’t add free stuff to the basket anymore? I guess it’s to make PS+ stuff harder to download … but very irritating. Very irritating having to individually download stuff instead of mass adding to download list. Please put it back to how it was before?

A couple of things:

1) What on earth is Oddworld: Stranger Boxx? The store description indicates that it’s a bundle of the PS3 and Vita versions of Stranger’s Wrath, yet you and the store itself have it listed as just a PS3 game. This makes no sense.

2) Ys Seven was already available everywhere except Aus and NZ and now it’s finally available on those two stores as well.

Is there ever a week where you guys don’t make mistakes?

Great update guys.
Sadly i already purchased PS4G and Ragnarok second hand hard copies online since you took so long to bring them to our region – despite the versions i purchased already being in English.

Your loss.

Trials for me today.

Why is Urban Trials not available in Denmark?!

Any idea what day the March Plus content will be announced?

Give us a discount on most wanted [DELETED]!!!

Chrono Cross, please?
Is there a chance for Yakuza: Kenzan! import?

Pretty awesome PSVITA update!!!!

Oh and YES!!!!!!

Sumioni: Demon Arts – Now available everywhere except Australia, New Zealand
Orgarhythm – Now available everywhere except Australia, New Zealand

Are there any sales or price drops this week?
Also can we expect a Capcom sale in the next few weeks?
Finally will EU users be offered a 10 Pound or 10 Euro PSN code like how US PSN users got $10 ;3

Can someone tell me what’s happened to Yu-gi-oh decade duels plus? It was released last week on the 13th and still no sign of it or information to go off. I know the US has it as well as the european xbox players, why not us?

As Sumioni: Demon Arts and Orgarhythm are now available in more countries.

Should these games not be listed on the latest tab for these countries? Ofcourse I know they are available now so I will just search for them but for a normal consumer they will not see these games.

@kivi95 I think they’re still not available.

Hm, I see P4g and Ragnarok being added to psn today, but Orgarythm and Sumioni is not. Not even when searching.

Can I just urge PS Vita owners to please buy Persona 4 Golden, its the best Vita game to be released to date and I really want it to do well. When I was in the States back in January I picked it up a bit early and have to see I highly recommend it as someone who has now put 120 hours into the game it is stunning. I have a brief review of it up on IGN http://www.ign.com/blogs/c0mmandershepard/2013/02/15/persona-4-golden-review/
Check it out! Otherwise a nice update this week with a lot of content hopefully tonight will be a great conference with loads of software as well, consider me excited!

To everyone asking about the Store voucher that some USA users got. How many times do we see on here the team telling us that SCEE and SCEA are completely separate entities. There is no reason to assume that anything SCEA does will transfer over to SCEE.

I too would like some Persona 4 Avatars I WANT YUKIKO!!!!

Where is Sumioni: Demon Arts?

It is not on the store. I can’t find it via search either.

<3 Persona 4 Golden.
Played it years ago on the Ps2 and got the US import as soon as it was available at my local store.
Visuals could've been updated a bit for the vita version, though not too much anyway because it would've lost the charm.
Still an awesome game.

@Domino2097 I want Chie. Actually, forget that, I want Mara, the [DELETED] Chariot. That game was rated M in US for a reason.
@cowbanana Good thing I’m not the only one who noticed.

Do wonder if I get a response anytime.. (Almost no reason to alter text, whit the lack of response)
Cant you guys play nice whis NIS and get the games and DLC here? or atleast let UK accounts gift those games to us in the not avavible countries?
Is the NIS not getting to release DLC in Scandinavia still secret?
Still not seeing Disgaea 3 on the Vita..
Or is it that the SCEE is stupid enough to demand native language descriptions on dlc when most countries in EU have a rather good grasp of english.
(Pretty sure its been close to confirmed that this is the issue)
Next point, when will the following PSP games be avavible on the
Store? The ones whit (VITA) is not vita compatible. Sideloading thru PS3 do not make a game vita compatible in this list.
Final Fantasy Crisis Core
Ghost in the Shell: Stand alone Complex
Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleap
PoPoLoCrois
Tales of Eternia
Tales of the World Radiant Mythology
Thrillville
Valkyrie Profile Lenneth
Third:
Cross Region Gifting. WHEN?

Following now avavible on Vita and off my list (and seems they are just stealth added, not anounced in blogg):
Invizimals
Valkyria Chronicles 2

Any chance of getting Counter Strike soon? Should I just give up hope?

Hi Jawad,

Do you’ve got extra news on the release window for Oddworld Munch HD in Belgium? In the Dutch language store I use we don’t need the French version anyway, as we play everything in English ^^

What is wrong with this dumb (CENSORED) every week you reply to only 10% of the comments with suttle pathetic inconsistent replies which is complete nonsence what are you getting paid for? What is your job description? To igonore the community ? We want certain games why not go and be persistent to the publishers and developers to give us what we want. You know you can do more yet you do same (CENSORED) every week because your lazy. Well done sony you have some great staff

One day sometime I might buy Persona 4 Golden but not right now since I need to focus on my cash. I may pick it up via retail maybe next month instead of GoW Ascension I think and get it after Sly 4 in April. Trust me, when Fred reveals the PS Charts next month. My bet P4G tops the Feb’s Vita charts for EU.

@GametimeUK:
Just give up and get it on Steam. SCEE will always dodge these questions or give you the same answer anyways.

…so PSEA gets $10 of free credit, and we get a useless customer service team? seems legit.
As does making the PS4 stream suitable for them to watch during the day, despite being one of the smllest demographics
Jawad, find out wth we arent getting what £15-20 of free credit, or you might aswell just not bother selling the PS4 in Europe, with all the crap we put up with the American’s should be loosing $10 to make it remotley even, not getting yet more reasons to hate PSEA for being so much better than PSEE -.-

@Shadowdragoon “Or is it that the SCEE is stupid enough to demand native language descriptions on dlc when most countries in EU have a rather good grasp of english.
(Pretty sure its been close to confirmed that this is the issue)”

Erm, it’s not close to confirmed it IS confirmed. By multiple publishers. It’s one of the reasons for the hate SCEE is getting here constantly. And why PS store so obnoxiously pathetic compared to XBLA and Steam.

@Jawad

Concerning the price reductions of Darksiders 2 and its DLC: The season pass still costs €14.99/£11.99, but the three DLC items it grants access to cost €4.47/£3.58 together. Are you going to reduce the season pass’ price?

Thanks

Any news on the Dynamic Theme preview issue?

Surely the producers of such content have noticed a drop in sales since they stopped providing a preview video of each Theme (of which, before the Store change, they used to offer)?

If you actually look at the numbers of people buying the Dynamic Themes it’s dropped to pitiful figures since the “blind sales”. I know I certainly won’t buy any more until I can actually see what I’m spending my money on.

Any update would be greatly appreciated.

Demon arts still not in the vita store..tried searching also a no go… when will u ever learn to do it right the first time…

@Dermado Don’t worry, PS4 will be coming to US in November and to EU only in 2014 (March). They don’t really give a damn. Store was garbage and will stay garbage for PS4.

Oh, any just wanted to point out that back when I’ve imported US copy of Persona 4 Golden it cost me LESS than it costs on EU PS store. And I’ve bought a new copy back when it came out + add price of shipping. I must admit that this game is absolutely amazing, but still stuff like this should draw some attention.

How typical we don’t get answers about the gift the Americans got I’ve like others tweeted playstation Europe and as alway get no answers what we not pushy enough to deserve a gift from yourselves do we need to threaten a lawsuit daily to warrant a response. I mean considering ps3 sales in Europe far out weigh the poor sales in the states and Japan I think we deserve the same treatment or are we a secondary market to you folks even though we go that extra mile to make sure your brand does well in Europe Compared to your “target country’s”.

Can we get an update on Sumioni? It is not available.

And why is Urban Trial not available in Denmark and Turkey?

SCEE needs to fix these situations. It’s crazy that the publishing deals can be made to leave out two countries. You can keep your PS4 until you get rid of all the crazy regional crap. I’ve bought my last Sony platform as long these retarded situations keep popping up. SCEE is just abysmal in their handling of PSN, services and publishing.

Tell the dev/publisher of Urban Trial Freestyle to add cross-buy and open for sale in Denmark, then they will get me as a customer, plus a lot more.

@jawad

this must be the best update ever imo. finaly orgarhythm and persona 4 g for us swedes.

and this is just the beginning of the rest of the future with only a couple of hours left of the old world.

i’ve been on the hype train for some weeks now and it keeps on accelerating

however i still can’t enjoy my ps vita version of the when vikings attack bundle (won’t install, stops at 15%), this is the fourth or fifth time i’m asking this questio. Do you know if someone is looking for a solution to my problem?

@shatteredirony There’s such a thing as “being taken for granted”. SCEE are gonna keep at it until it all comes back and bites their backside.
@cowbanana Really glad to see people realize that SCEE policy is ridiculous.
Reading all those comments got me thinking… PS4 will be coming out soon… Will SCEE manage 1 entirely competent update in the meantime? As a precedent. You know, to show such a thing can happen at all. So far for every good thing there’s a bad thing (or two) when it comes to SCEE updates.