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Sony reveals new PSN store
- Thread starter krimsoncharge
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Mainly because things advance and competition also moves forward at the same time. What was great a few years ago may not look so great now next to rivals that have advanced within those few years, or compared to what can be accomplished with the technology available toady.
Graphics Horse
Member
As far as I saw there were no options on how to view your download list. It worked the same as the old store or XMB > Account Management > Transaction Management > Download List. But slower, probably.
Wolves Evolve
Member
Where are the PSN games in the categories?
A door with a hundred people trying to run through all at once.
definitely an improvement on presentation and looks.
makes the old one look very dated(which was)
the speed is very very slow.
no way is going to stay so slow,its almost unusable
so probably because they are rolling it out now....
lol
makes the old one look very dated(which was)
the speed is very very slow.
no way is going to stay so slow,its almost unusable
so probably because they are rolling it out now....
lol
test_account
XP-39C²
I agree, but i think has more to do with being used to it.
fi1ip
Member
Nice.
test_account
XP-39C²
Seems like this is only being affected in certain countries. I tried and i still get the new store.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
No worries. They'll have it sorted out. Tons of people are logging in just to see the store.
Graphics Horse
Member
Poorly organized is not necessarily subjective.
To use an old example of the Euro store, Killzone Liberation does not show up in the list of all A-Z PSP games, but does exist on the store. None of these problems seemed to require building a new store from scratch.
You're assuming it was a straightforward tweak, but without knowing anything about how it all actually works who knows how easy implementing those tweaks will have been? The fact that the tiles were broken and they resolved it by creating more containers suggests that a proper fix wasn't that all that straightforward.
MS Didn't invent the style, they just happened to put their own branding on it for their devices, which they then lost ironically.
Did they really have to do this on the day of a store update? This is gonna be even more of a mess later on. Or the update will be extremely late. Either way I don't see this going well.
Couldn't try the new store so far, though. I think it was never up in Germany, or if it was I missed it.
Couldn't try the new store so far, though. I think it was never up in Germany, or if it was I missed it.
Did you read the blog comments where they stated it will be slow until they complete the world wide launch? It should hopefully be okay once the rollout is complete.
Did JP/Asia get anything too?
You've just got accustomed to the old store - Sony knows it and they'll fix it.
You've just got accustomed to the old store - Sony knows it and they'll fix it.
That and it's nice to have a competent search function
They've removed it. I assume it'll go up again soon
So just took a spin.
Quick notes:
Lets focus on some positives:
Too bad that there is still no default background downloading.
Sadly I think the overall sluggish nature of it won't go away I think.
And where is the damn virtual keyboard! I get what they wanted to achieve with the keyboard they have (strange auto completeness), but the sluggish nature of it is sadly making it a chore.
This is a nice starting point though. Lets hope they take all the feedback and improve on the areas that's lacking it.
Quick notes:
- Took 72 seconds to launch! (old store took between 20-30 during business hours).
- Have yet to load one of the 'tiles' of game adverts (aka seems to be limited to lastest of each section)
- The layout ain't bad. Hell it seems to make almost more sense than what the PAL store was before the update
- Ignoring the 'latest' sections, everything else is really speedy.
- FILTERS! Fuck yeah! (Can't wait for it to be ported to the download list)
Lets focus on some positives:
- FILTERS!!!!!!!
- Search is actually pretty decent. It has quirks, but searching for all stars and getting the results shown so fast already puts this heads above old store
- How about no more 'lag' after you've added something to the cart? It's gone!
- Labels in the normal list view! Loads way faster than the icon so no need to wait for the damn icons to load first.
Too bad that there is still no default background downloading.
Sadly I think the overall sluggish nature of it won't go away I think.
And where is the damn virtual keyboard! I get what they wanted to achieve with the keyboard they have (strange auto completeness), but the sluggish nature of it is sadly making it a chore.
This is a nice starting point though. Lets hope they take all the feedback and improve on the areas that's lacking it.
endlessflood
Member
When are they planning to patch one in? I use a USB keyboard and not only is there no input buffer in the new store, but the keyboard only seems to be polled once every 6 seconds or so. I have to type one letter into the keyboard every 6 seconds; any faster and the keystroke is ignored. There are many words I would use to describe a search function like this, but competent is not one of them.
Graphics Horse
Member
It won't let you enter another letter (controller or keyboard) until it's talked with the server and got a new list of matches. Terrible idea.
Metalmurphy
Member
Thank God for that. It was so annoying in the old store.
Yeah! Granted my testing was limited to adding four things (two from the same section). But it was no where to be seen.
Will do some more testing tonight though.
I was talking about the search function on the old store. The new one is freaking terrible, i agree.
get2sammyb
Member
That's very smart. I'm sure things will settle down soon with regards to speed and functionality. It's probably best not to get too agitated about performance until the weekend. This kind of thing must be difficult to roll out.
test_account
XP-39C²
I'm glad that they added how much space everything takes now. For example, if i go to The Unfinished Swan now, it says that it takes 1.5GB.
IonicSnake
Banned
Sorry if posted already but found this reply on the ps blog.
I can understand first day slowness and can even overlook the stupid new input method for search, but again, the extra steps to download a demo is absolutely mind-bogglingly dumb!
Those are basically the "Purchase" steps (which I'm fine with, sort of) applied to free stuff like demos.
Free stuff should have a "Download" (RIGHT AWAY!) option.
IonicSnake
Banned
I just noticed that things that have a download button like the stuff you have purchased and themes start downloading as soon as you chose to download it. This should, like TTP said, be on all free stuff. Then it's just klick and download for free stuff and for the rest you'll have to confirm and checkout.
Yeah, I agree. Just saying they are missing the old download button. The current procedure is per se understandable for purchasing stuff.
Yep. Noticed that as well. Stuff you have downloaded (or put in the cart) show a download button when you revisit them. They only need to make it so that download button is there from the start for free stuff.