Thank you to Chubigans for the custom banner. BTW, Chubigans started school this week so he didn't have as much time to work on this one.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
In lieu of making the thread a couple weeks ago for the UK and JPN content that went up, I did a comprehensive (minus DLC and trailers) list of everything that went up in the U.S. from launch up until the last update of 2007. I also included a detailed feature list of all of the PSN games, a Japanese PS1 game list and a list of all the demos available.
In case you missed it: PSN Content 2007 - "almost" Comprehensive List
-Japanese content is up now.
-Europe content is up now.
-North America content is up now.
-According to a post on Kotaku, United States PSN Cards are starting to appear in stores. However, after checking today, I have not been able to find any place online that sells them.
-According to Sony, there will be no firmware update in January.
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THIS WEEK:
United States/Canada
Games/Demos:
-Blast Factor Bundle - $12.99 (includes game, MP and AR expansions)
-Mesmerize: Trace (PS Eye Required) - $1.99
-Tori-Emaki (PS Eye Required) - $1.99
-FIFA Street 3 demo
-Turok demo
DLC:
-MotorStorm - Eagle's Nest and Diamondback Speedway track pack - $2.99
Rock Band:
Individual Songs - $1.99 each:
Sweet - "Action" (Cover)
The Monkees - "Last Train to Clarksville" (Cover)
Blink-182 - "All the Small Things" (Master)
Trailers:
-Borderlands - "Debut"
-Brothers In Arms Hells Highway
-Dynasty Warriors 6
-Lost Planet
-PixelJunk Monsters
-Syphon Filter: Combat Ops
Other:
-Call of Duty 4 theme
-Mesmerize theme
-PAIN Ed T-Bone theme
-PAIN Ice Tea theme
-Tori-Emaki theme
United Kingdom
Games/Demos:
-FIFA Street 3 demo
-NBA '08 demo
DLC:
-Folklore- Visions of the Tower - £1.49/1.99
Guitar Heros III:
Warner Track Pack - £3.99/5.99 for the pack or £1.49/1.99 each
-Die Fantastischen Vier - "Ernten Was Wir Saen"
-Extremoduro - "So Payaso"
-Trust - "Antisocial"
Trailers:
-Brothers In Arms Hell's Highway
-Borderlands
-GT5 Prologue
Other:
-Call of Duty 4 theme
Japan
Games/Demos:
-Arc the Lad 3 (PS1) - ¥600
-Intelligent Qube Final (PS1) - ¥600
DLC:
-Record of Agarest War DLC - ¥300
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COMING BEFORE THE SUMMER DROUGHT:
Demos:
-Devil May Cry 4 - January 31st
-Hot Shots Golf 5 - January
-The Club
PSN Games:
Released in the US and still to come for Europe:
-Blast Factor: Advanced Research
-Flow Expansion Pack
-High Velocity Bowling
-PAIN
-Riff: Everyday Shooter
-Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix
January
-PixelJunk Monsters
March
-Gran Turismo 5: Prologue
Other early 2008 games
-Bionic Commando: Rearmed
-Commando 3
-Dark Mist
-Echo Chrome
-Elefunk
-Rocketman: Axis of Evil
-Rat Race
-Skydiving
-Soldner X
-Super Street Fighter 2 HD Turbo Hyper-Fighting, etc.
-Wipeout HD
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STUFF YOU CAN FIND ONLY ON THE FOREIGN STORES:
UNITED KINGDOM:
-The Club demo
-Heavenly Sword theme
-Killzone 2 theme
-Lemmings theme
-Manga theme
-MotorStorm theme
-Retro theme
-Snakeball theme
-SingStar theme
JAPAN:
-Dark Mist - 800 yen
-Gran Turismo 5: Prologue - 4500 yen
-Mainichi Issho - full game - free
-PixelJunk Monsters - 900 yen
-Current Japanese PS1 game list - 600 yen each
-Go! Sports Ski demo
-Heavenly Sword - "Kai" demo
-G1 Jockey 4 2007 demo
-Imabikisou demo
-Record of Agarest demo
-XI[sai] - PS1 game demo
-Yakuza 3 demo
-Mainicchi Issho themes (2 of them)
-Pixeljunk Monsters theme
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PREVIOUS WEEKS:
PSN Content 01/10/08 (Crash Bandicoot 2 (PS1) game; Kane and Lynch and Super Stardust HD demos; Folklore, NFS and RB DLC)
PSN Content 01/03/08 (NFL Tour '09 demo; NFS: PS, Rock Band and GH3 DLC)
PSN Content 12/20/07 (Snakeball, Toy Home, Warhawk (PS1), Trials of Topoq, and Mesmerize: Distort games; Snakeball and Blacksite: Area 51 demos; WarHawk expansion, Folklore, Poker, RB and GH DLC)
PSN Content 12/13/07 (Burnout: Paradise demo; HVBowling, RB and NFS DLC; GT5: Prologue game - JPN)
PSN Content 12/06/07 (High Velocity Bowling game; Wild Arms (PS1); Timeshift MP demo; Folklore, Rock Band, PAIN, and Motor Storm DLC; new themes)
PSN Content 11/29/07 (PAIN game; Oblivion: Shivering Isles expansion; GH3 and Rock Band DLC)
PSN Content 11/22/07 (Aquatopia and Operation: CF PS Eye games; MX vs. ATV demo; flOw, NFS: ProStreet and Rock Band DLC)
PSN Content 11/15/07 (Blazing Angels 2 and Toy Home demos)
PSN Content 2007 - "almost" Comprehensive List (includes Japanese PS1 games)
OTHER RESOURCES:
-NeoGAF Official PS3 Custom Theme Thread (Lots of cool stuff, Send your thanks to m0dus and the other contributors)
-The link to access the PS Store for the PSP.
JAPAN STORE HELP:
Contained in "PSN Content 2007 - 'almost' Comprehensive List" thread
FIRMWARE UPDATES: (all contain BC updates)
12/17/07 - 2.10 (DIVX and WMV codec support, BD 1.1 support, voice modulation, PS1 games playable via remote play)
11/19/07 - 2.01 (Stability and bug fixes for issues with 2.00)
11/07/07 - 2.00 (New options for sorting Trailers and Games, Playlist support for Photos and Music, trailers from the store can be watched while they are still downloading, Store and browser are both much quicker, Browser has new flash version, Info board)
10/23/07 - 1.94 (Included on R&C disk - enables Dual Shock 3 support)
09/12/07 - 1.93 (Fix for Warhawk and PSN connection issues)
09/03/07 - 1.92 (Quicker XMB loading, web browser improvements, bug fixes)
07/23/07 - 1.90 (XMB Backgrounds, CD upsampling, can change PS1/PS2 video settings in-game, XMB game list sorting)
06/27/07 - 1.82
06/13/07 - 1.81 (fixed "full" option not sticking on RGB)
05/23/07 - 1.80 (PSX/PS2/DVD Upscaling, DNLA streaming, BLU-RAY 720p, Memory Card adapter functionality improved)
04/18/07 - 1.70 (Rumble for PS1/PS2, PS1 downloads playable on PS3)
03/22/07 - 1.60 (BG downloading, Folding@Home, Europe BC Enabled)
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THIS WEEK ON PSP:
Setting some expectations for my listing of PSP Store content. I will only post the PSP list after it gets posted on the PS blog. I'm not going to track content outside of the U.S. nor am I going to track upcoming releases. It's simply way beyond what I have time for. If somebody else wants to start keeping track of that, feel free.
The last update for the PSP store was on January 10th.