PS2 Games To Appear On The PSN Store

PS2 Games To Appear On The PSN Store- Says The Sixth Axis.  Rumours of PS2 backwards compatibility already added in secretly to firmware 2.20 etc…  Eventually, all’s I want is to be able to put in PS2 discs and play them on my PS3, just like my friend who has a 60GB PS3.  Damn you!  Anyhow, read the article on The Sixth Axis and decide for yourself.  I’m taking this one with a pinch of salt for now.

PLAYSTATION Store offline

PLAYSTATION Store offline- With all this interest over the PLAYSTATION Store and its revamp, I thought I’d take a look but it’s offline for maintenance. Here’s hoping that there are some unexpected goodies or something. I’ll check again later.

UPDATE: It was only temporary.  The Store was back in action a few hours later.

Gorgeous new PLAYSTATION Store

I would have posted this as an aside, but I wanted to include the a picture of the new visual style of the store:

New PLAYSTATION Store preview

(Click the above image for high-res goodness)

The update to the PLAYSTATION Store will be around mid-April, during which there will be a firmware upgrade required for the PS3 in order to use the new store.  This is because the store will be software-based, and not a website, as is currently the case.  There will be no content updates due to the store between now and the update.

Visually the store redesign seems to have taken a page off the SingStar Store, which is no bad thing.  Seriously though, this is great news.  Whilst the old store could have said to have fallen out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down, the new design doesn’t seem to have any critics (so far).

Who benefits from the update?  Only PS3 users at the moment, although the PC version of the store will probably be updated sometime in the future.  The new store should be very fast, compared to the old store, due to its software-based nature.  I have to admit, whilst browsing the store, it has felt like wading through treacle.

Anyhow- here’s to more good stuff coming from Sony!  (And to some extra content for the store after the redesign).  Yet what I’ve noticed on the official forums, has been an ever-increasing demand for the release of Home and the long awaited in-game XMB.

Patapon Demo on the PlayStation Store

Patapon Demo on the PlayStation Store– I’ve been waiting for this in anticipation for quite some time.  I’ve now found out that my PSP is hosing anything I download onto it- be it demos or updates.  I need to find out whether it’s my PC or my PSP that is actually causing the problem.

My experience with the PlayStation Store (PC)

This post was originally written on the City In The Clouds blog.

This isn’t a review or an in-depth analysis. I just liked to get that out of the way before dispensing with some brief and concise thoughts and opinions on the availability of the PlayStation Store on the PC. Shall we begin?

Firstly, the availability of the PlayStation Store on the PC is very welcome. I had been growing increasingly frustrated that only PS3 users were able to download PSone games to their PSP. Now that the store is here though, I find my thoughts on it somewhat divided.

Whilst I now don’t feel as much as a second class PSP citizen (due to not owning a PS3), I have to admit that the site runs like Linford Christie… slipping on a banana skin. That’s just not well at all, if you need telling. It is sooo slow, which is unbelievable. Neither am I keen on the design- looks almost crude, if that makes sense.

Buying games is easy enough, if you have already have a PlayStation account. As is the download process to your PSP which is done via a special PSP download client. The other content is free, but sparse. That goes for the store as a whole (in the UK anyway), in that there is not really much there. Simply put more on there and the people will come. The store has great potential, I figure it just needs time for more content, but to be honest this should have been available a lot sooner.

The games are a different matter; I have purchased one PSP game and an original PSone game. My conclusions? Find out next time…