Semi-Official Sony website Three Speech updated their blog today with information about this weeks European update.
To say this information was warmly greeted is quite an understatement.
The general census from what can be read from the comments left is that many European customers are getting a little unhappy with general content of store updates each week, especially in reflection to the updates other regions have and are seeing.
Three Speech responded with the following comment:
"I know we keep saying this, but some sort of comment from Sony should be on its way."
When, or what this statement will contain is anyone's guess, but people there are not happy at all.
Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.
Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.
They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.
they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.
Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted
Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments
A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.
Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.
15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.
Why did Sony push Shuhei Yoshida out of his role leading PlayStation's first-party games? He'd overseen some huge successes. Well, apparently, he didn't listen.
Yeah I can see that for sure. Shuhei Yoshida should have been in charge not Jim Ryan.
It should be free highway for him now.. but Sony are too stupid to see this, especially that moron Hulst
Wtf why all that anger. PlayStation is dominating on every level. Besides I think there is a little more to hiring a CEO than just who is available. Its not like its a athlete your team wants to buy.
S2Killinit
live service failures, chasing trends, closing studios. yes dominating
Sony is Dominating because competition is not existing. Compared to previous gens this is the poorest in terms of software offerings.
Last gen we got Uncharted 4 Lost Legacy and TLOU2 from ND alone.
This is so far a remasters gen, with no competition to lift up the quality
..."PlayStation is dominating on every level"....
...Really???
PlayStation are soon heading into a new generation in the not to distant future. They currently have the worst customer satisfaction they've ever sustained as a company. The company is heading for a huge crash while at the same time they'll need to be planning how they are going to try and win back that favour and the build up to their new releases.
Yes financially they're winning but they're going to have to ride out this complete public corporate disaster. No one has faith in the company or the product anymore. They've damaged their public image so much this generation. Greed can kill anyone.
He would've done the same thing and fire Jim Ryan and Shuhei would be the villain. Why?
Because Elite creates the narrative and distraction for gamers, users and citizens.
More confirmation that Jim Ryan is the culprit for what has happened to Sony. Hulst needs to go too. What sucks is that a lot of the good top heads at Sony are no longer there. I wish that guys that were forced out prematurely by Dumbo Jimbo like Shuhei and Layden came back.
Yep. Yoshida was responsible for bringing one of the best games of this generation to playstation (Stellar Blade). He is an actual gamer and is in touch with what gamers want (creative, fun games, not GaaS and agenda pushing). He also seems like a genuinely nice guy if you watch some interviews. Of course they got rid of him.
Makes you wonder if MS even thought about hiring him after Phil and Sarah were leaving. He certainly couldn't make their situation any worse.
All the gamer/consumer lead heads are gone across PS and Xbox. shuhei gone phil's gone (questionable) but gone. The future of gaming is somewhat uncertain across the board.
Sony can only post what they receive from devs, and some titles need to wait for Rating from euro zone entity, only time can "fix" this and we should see more sintonized stores in future.
Note: Europe will receive GT5 Prologue this November/December, while USA need to wait for 2008, to get them. What then ? Articles about POOR USA store ?
Also Sony homeland, Japan Store don't have half of the demos/content we have, just create one Japanese account and check they are missing lot of stuff, mainly because they don't release nothing w/o being translated first.
I'm not happy too, when I go to USA store I can get Full Games because my european Credit Card is assigned to my European Address, and PSN USA store don't allow me to complete purchases, so I just get demos and free stuff from foreign stores.
But I don't see the need for Statement from Sony, the stores are already made this way due to several variables,
We just need to be patient and wait, while we play the great titles PS3 can give us.
UPDATE: Reply to "AliC":
Sure, you are right, but as I state above, Sony can't update ALL stores due to several variables/factors, people just need to be patient and wait, this will be more democratic with time, for that PS3 need the gamers as we need PS3.
statement is needed i stick up for the ps3 alot, but the european store is a joke.
They can only post what the devs have given them, they have got loads of stuff check the american store they have 9/10 things we dont have in the past 2 weeks including numerous demo's.
The way i see it is uk and american store should be the same we both speak the same language, obviously you pay with different currencies im sure that can be solved.
This is one of the only few negatives i have as a uk ps3 owner atm
It will be down to language and rating's been a nightmare to sort out across europe.
the best thing to do is to join the american store and download the games from there.
i got the strangehold demo (1377MB) here in the uk and works perfectly.
i have also download:
NBA LIVE 2008 ( must have download graphics are amazing)
TIGERWOODS PGA TOUR 2008
SUPER PUZZLE FIGHTER II TURBO
NASCAR 08
ALL PRO FOOTBALL 2K8
NCAA PRO FOOTBALL
MAJOR LEAGUR BASEBALL 2K7
DEF JAM ICON
FULL AUTO 2
GUNDAM
and they all work .
lots of people are p***** at sony
jromao -
how do you know we will get pes2008 and gt5 prologue???
AliC -
creating a US account..... its really not something you should have to do.
i totally agree with you mate
but it has to be done