Thanks, so just more of the same then I guess. Luckily it's not commercial adverts. That would have been truly sad :>
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Sony reveals new PSN store
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Thanks, so just more of the same then I guess. Luckily it's not commercial adverts. That would have been truly sad :>
Wolves Evolve
Member
It is so very awfully slow and bad.
I didn't think they would manage it but they did. Initial load for me was 30 seconds and then the tile windows are always a full 5s load away. There's a couple of improvements like search but overall it is slower to find anything or buy anything.
The most surprising thing is that the two-layer tile and background effect only works 50% of the time! The other half you've gone left or right twice so the tile you have selected is partially over the wrong image. Parallel movement isn't hard! Just test it once!
I didn't think they would manage it but they did. Initial load for me was 30 seconds and then the tile windows are always a full 5s load away. There's a couple of improvements like search but overall it is slower to find anything or buy anything.
The most surprising thing is that the two-layer tile and background effect only works 50% of the time! The other half you've gone left or right twice so the tile you have selected is partially over the wrong image. Parallel movement isn't hard! Just test it once!
Fix The Scientist
Member
Looks nicer but so far it's still that same old playstation store experience where if i'm using it for more than 3 minutes i want to smash my head against something due to the sloooooow fucking load times. Hate it.
LiquidSolid
Member
The problem with them is that they're huge, so they take a while to load. And often, you have to scroll through three pages of them to get what you want (like a list of the latest content). It's a clusterfuck.
Why they don't at least cache all the banners on the system itself, so that they can be instantly loaded on second look, I've no clue.
endlessflood
Member
It's probably being rolled out by local date and time, and so NZ and Australia are amongst the first countries in the world to get it (being close to the international date line). Or maybe Sony just said EU gets it at 6pm on Wednesday, and forgot that AU and NZ were in their EU group and 10+ hours ahead of Europe lol.
Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
So they managed to avoid fixing the biggest issue with the PSN Store; the (lack of) speed.
Good job, Sony.
Good job, Sony.
slaughterking
Member
What am I reading here. They improved the PSN store for the worse? I refuse to believe that this is even possible. D:
Canis lupus
Member
Chill down people, Store is slow because everyone want to check it out. Like when a new Apple store opens.
How do you know that?
Wolves Evolve
Member
You'll see.
http://community.eu.playstation.com...gned-PS-Store/m-p/17261740?WT.mc_id=TSO_EN100
I wonder if this is true, and they can improve the performance with an eventual firmware update to perform some of the tasks locally?
Nope.
If you select "whats new" you have to scroll across three pages of selected game advertising to get to all new content option which is on the very far right side. So they make is so you cannot avoid going past the advertisements. It is giant full screen size stuff for games like Fifa, Dishonored, new movies and so on with links to the content.
It is only a small amount of the new content featured and not everything.
If you select "games" and "whats new" you still have to scroll all the way to far right side across three pages before you can access all new games.
This is the same for all categories, you always have to scroll past the 2 - 3 pages of featured content before you can select the all latest games, all latest demos, all latest DLC option and actually and see everything not just the highlighted content.
Its nothing like the old store where you could avoid the changes advertisements that showed up on the side of the screen.
edit: actually for some categories like "games" then "all ps3 games" you wont get the advertising but you will have to manual sort through every game on the store.
But you always get if for the new categories.
There's no search in the download list.
It's probably reminiscent of how the store originally was.
Hypereides
Member
Figured as much.
Oh... I thought one was coming at a later date.
Noisepurge
Member
but you can and always have been able to just search for a game you know you have downloaded with the normal search, and re-download it there.
filtering options based on platform, video, avatars...that would be nice. I too have over 700 downloads and can't remember what all that is and going through the whole list is slow and annoying.
Adding funds or purchasing currently does not work at all.
LiquidSolid
Member
How much is Unfinished Swan in Aus? Have you tried putting that much on your account and then trying to buy it? Or are you getting the same error I am even when you do that?
Edit: Oh, so adding funds doesn't work for anyone. Good. I've been getting agitated over my card possibly not being supported anymore.
IonicSnake
Banned
It's out in Sweden.
Filtering would be a dream come true. I was looking to change my avatar yesterday, and having received numerous free with Plus and not having downloaded them all, I'd have to go through my whole download list just to recall what avatars are there.
zerokoolpsx
Member
Rofl. Sony gotta make it better to download stuff. Don't really want to view my cart before downloading it.
Hopefully it being slow is just down to it being new and lot's wanting to try it. Good to hear it's easier to navigate.
Technically you can omit the download in background step too, but I don't see why you would. Pretty annoying that you have to press x that one extra time though!
Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
Seems to load fairly quickly here, besides that initial load before entering the store. But having to move three screens to the right to find the latest demos kinda sucks. Also, ads out the ass. I don't want to see ads for a bunch of shit I don't care about, just let me go to latest demos as soon as the store opens.
Edit: Oh, wait. I can just select games, push right on the D-pad and I'll get the latest demos. Nice. But where have they hidden the apps & services category?
Edit: Oh, wait. I can just select games, push right on the D-pad and I'll get the latest demos. Nice. But where have they hidden the apps & services category?
They need a setting somewhere that you can set this as the default option (aside from those that don't allow background downloading, but those themes/unlocks come down in seconds anyway).
Do not kid yourself its slower because it has to load a shit load of advertisement images.
It was only open to Aus/NZ before and it was still slow. It takes 20 - 30 seconds to get from from the application to very first home screen. This used to take 3 seconds on the old store.
Noisepurge
Member
Vita store does this automatically, they should have included atleast that feature from it to this new store
It's not up everywhere in the EU yet, I don't think.
Took some comparison footage. Will upload as soon as it finishes rendering.
Loading times (from XMB to frontend - not including full items load. Just background showing up):
Old: 5 secs
New: 29 secs (35 secs if you wait to fully load)
Steps to download a demo (from item highlighted):
Old: 3
New: 7
Search times are hard to measure but overall old is faster as well (thanks also to the virtual KB having prediction feature).
Loading times (from XMB to frontend - not including full items load. Just background showing up):
Old: 5 secs
New: 29 secs (35 secs if you wait to fully load)
Steps to download a demo (from item highlighted):
Old: 3
New: 7
Search times are hard to measure but overall old is faster as well (thanks also to the virtual KB having prediction feature).
EU Blog post
http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2012/10/17/introducing-your-new-playstation-store/
E: Beaten
http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2012/10/17/introducing-your-new-playstation-store/
E: Beaten
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Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
From the PS blog comments section.
Fuck yeah, we're Internet celebrities!
Fuck yeah, we're Internet celebrities!
Maybe, but those numbers are based on my 4th or 5th access to the new store.