Playstation Network - General Discussion Thread

[JP]

£20 to £25 I'd imagine for this as it's one of Sony's signature first party franchises. How much was the GT5 download again? This is a little different to the other big games such as Warhawk & GT5 though as they also got a BD release to bring in more sales.

Hopefully they'll keep it to £20 as there will more than likely loads of overpriced DLC for the game as there has been with the PSP games.

[TheForce]

I think about 30 euro's, but honestly, I don't care so much, if it was a full priced game in the stores I would have bought it as well.....

I need this game

[JP]

OK, so they've been spotted out in the wild again in the US.

No announcement accompanying this, so I guess Sony are looking at soft-launching the things, but reader Terry sent us these pics of some PlayStation Network pre-paid cards available right now at his local Meijer store. Both $20 and $50 denominations are available, and Terry lets us know that (like the card says), unlike those for, say, the Wii, the PSN cards are only activated once they've been run through the register.

[SuperBeatBoy]

http://kotaku.com/5019417/square-enix-classics-start-hitting-japanese-psn

EINHANDER!

[VR46]

I posted that in the PSN Updates thread earlier this morning, nice to know my posts are read

[SuperBeatBoy]

hehehe. sorry mate, i was just reading kotaku and saw this. I almost pissed my pants in excitement! i mentioned awhile back in one of these thread how much i want to re-purchase this for my ps3.

[JP]

Sony held a little mid-term corporate strategy meeting today in Japan. On the menu? All kinds of Sony stuff, but of particular interest to us, all kinds of PlayStation-related stuff. First up? These shots of the PS3's upcoming video download service, which formed part of a presentation by Kaz Hirai. As you can see, it's largely identical to the current PlayStation Store interface, though it's nice seeing the whole thing move out of the "will be here sometime" stage and into what's surely the "will be here soon" stage. But how soon?

Part of Sony boss Howard Stringer's presentation touches on the company's "video service rollout strategy", whereby they're looking at getting video download services running on not just the PS3, but the PSP, laptops, phones and beyond. That presentation has, as you can see, the PS3 and PSP tentatively scheduled to see the service in "Summer 2008". Expect more info at E3.

Sony Group's Mid-Term Corporate Strategy Meeting

[JP]

I was expecting this when they first released that gloeb thing on the PS3 really. It's been announced now and it has the interesting name of Life with PLAYSTATION.

It seems to pretty much be what Nintendo are doing but all bundled into that lovely NASA globe thingy that's on the PS3.

Today, Sony Computer Entertainment exec Kaz Hirai announced "Life with PlayStation" for the PS3. During the presentation, the "Life" was demoed for the audience for the first time ? the service shows the Earth, and users can access current news and weather for locations around the world. It's possible to even pull up the full article from the headline. Users can also set background music while looking at the Earth, checking the weather and the world news. Click through pics below to see it in action.

[elkatas]

The problem with all these services is that you can't get localized news content. And tbh, weather is pretty pointless feature.

[JP]

Yeah, I'm a big fan of the old fashioned way of working out the weather really.

Look out the window and is there water falling from the sky?
Yes - It's probably raining and it's likely that it will stay that way for as long as it will annoy people.
No - Don't worry, it will rain shortly. See above for further details.

[Number45]

http://www.thepsn.co.uk/news/1-news/191-ps3-friends-limit-increased

No source, but it's about damn time.

[VR46]

http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2008/07/14/playstation-network-portable-id-now-available/

Neat little PSN thingy. Will sign up for it later.

[VR46]

Umm, looks a bit barren, site is very slow for me, everyone must be signing up at the minute.

[vercity]

[url]http://pid.us.playstation.com//user/Azmo85.jpg[url]

[JP]

Not a lot of use at the moment but when friends & messaging is added it could be useful. The site is down now due to maintenance so you've probably killed it David.

EDIT:
PSN friends list details