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Sony Takes down the New PlayStation Store

From AnalogHype.com: "Well it looks like Sony’s gone back to the drawing board with the PlayStation Store. Earlier this morning, the new PlayStation Store which sports a metro design was released to the public in UK and AU territories, but now it’s been replaced by the old PlayStation Store."

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Dante1124201d ago (Edited 4201d ago )

It was cool when I got on earlier (before everyone discovered the update). Fast, quick DLs, etc. When I got on this later again it was kinda slow (probably from a large amount of people logging on) and the search was off just a bit. Hope they sort things out by tomorrow. Loved the look of it.

Edit: When are the Americans getting the store update?

ikkokucrisis4201d ago (Edited 4201d ago )

If only rollbacks could be applied to other apps:

Hulu,

I'm talking about you!

hakis864200d ago

I'm not too sure how I feel about the new PS Store.
I think it looks really nice.

First thing I tried to do was search up "netflix", which I COULDN'T do, it stopped me at NE...?
So how do I find "apps" there, or even games, without knowing exactly what it's called?

And I kind of miss being able to browse by categories...
Anyone feel the same way?

Yi-Long4200d ago

... it takes a bit of getting used to. I feel the text is a bit too big and therefor less stylish than it should be.

Also, I'm in Holland, and it annoys me endlessly that the PSN-store is only available here in Dutch.

There should just be a setting to have english menus in the Dutch PSN store.

I really REALLY hate localisation.

nveenio4200d ago

I agree. The latest Hulu sucks so bad. I can't even watch through an entire show without the app constantly stopping and buffering or locking up on the menu screen altogether with the video playing in the background. And what does it tell me? "Please check your connection."

20Mbps is enough for Netflix and Amazon Instant Video...it should be enough for Hulu.

I'm THIS close to canceling my sub. Just hoping they get it sorted soon. I really sort of blame Sony (not really) for letting the app through quality control.

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frankiebeans4201d ago

You're wrong I definitely discovered it before you did.

jon12344201d ago

woah...!! youre so cool, you found it first! your special... :)

/s

Neko_Mega4201d ago

At best, I bet they are working out some bugs or problems. I just hope the download list is more easy to find the games and stuff I want.

Like if a game I have has add ons that I downloaded, they should be in one folder with the name of the game.

HarryMasonHerpderp4201d ago

Why take the store down for 24 hours and then not test to see if the store actually works before releasing it again?
Sometimes Sony really screw things up for themselves.

isarai4201d ago

No matter how much you test, things are not always certain. As someone who is just learning programming i completely understand why things like this happen when releasing things on a large scale, especially one network dependent.

hkgamer4201d ago

Quite hard to decipher what you are saying so I am presuming you are saying:
1. Sony should take down the store for 24 hours and run test to see the problem and then release it again.

2. Why hasn't Sony tested it for bugs before releasing it on the store for less then 24 hours and then taking it off again.

If you are saying 1. then yeah I agree, but I think they will set another proper date for the new look to go back up again.

if you are saying 2. then I'm pretty sure Sony has tested the fuck out of it, maybe they just messed up big time by releasing an older buggier version.

If none then just ignore my post.

Karum4200d ago

What he's saying i that no matter how much you test new software you can't catch every little bug or issue and it's only when it hits "mass market" that problems are found and that this is especially true with a networked product or networked software as it's impossible to internally test a networked product on the same scale as it being available to the entire userbase.

The same thing applies to updates for Windows or OSX and even apps you use on your smartphone or tablet etc.

violents4200d ago (Edited 4200d ago )

You can test all day long but that will never give you the same results as real world testing. Think of it this way, you can figure it out on paper and design it according to how it "should" work. You move to a testing stage and you get say one region working on it and you have say 400,000 people on the network now and you see proplems develop that you cant account for in closed system test and design stages. You take it back down make some tweaks and re release to test how the networks handle with large scale audience again. Its just the way you have to do it. No amount of testing will show you every single problem that millions of people accessing the same space is going to cause.

danimitsu4200d ago

I'm totally not saying this in a disrespectful way, so with all due respect, it would be a good idea to gain broader knowledge as to how modern technology works and functions. A basic understanding of programming and quality assurance can give people a better perspective and understanding for this kind of stuff. Basically, it's a long, long, never ending process. It's more than just "testing for bugs" ... plus sometimes there are issues that can only be observed and researched in large scale tests, such as open-betas, but this is a network store update, not a game. A "beta" of a store seems somewhat unethical or would be seen, in a professional light, as being a cop out. Then again, how long was PS Home in beta? heh

HarryMasonHerpderp4200d ago

I understand a few bugs but people couldn't add funds to their account and the store wasn't recognising PS+ members, then you have the crashes and slow loading on top of that.
You would think that they tested for these things BEFORE launching it to the public.

Karum4200d ago

So you think they didn't test the ability to ad funds to your wallet?

Read the posts made above yours, it can perhaps give you a bit of an understanding as to how this stuff works.

For instance the whole thing relies on 2 things, software and the network. The software portion of adding funds to a wallet may well work ok but when you release this to millions of users, something that isn't up to scratch which simply can't be identified in closed testing has a knock on effect to the system that handles wallet funding and transactions in general.

It doesn't mean that feature wasn't tested.

BlaqMagiq244201d ago

Probably working out the kinks. Itll be up and about again in no time.

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Rolling the Dice: Do Modern RPGs Miss the Point of Team-Based Play?

It seems it was long time ago. A bunch of friends spending hours on end playing RPG games, sitting around the table with the box of cold pizza. Excited about the story, listening to the Game Master, they were completely engaged in the worlds only visible to them and their imaginations.

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Takwin2618d ago

The GM is the programmer, and in MMOs and co-ops, you can play with others. If you want to ONLY use your imagination for the visuals, read a book.

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Record of Agarest War 2 announced for PS3

Scrawl: "Looks like we know how that new Compile Heart countdown is going to end. The latest issue of Famitsu has confirmed that Agarest Senki 2, known as Record of Agarest War 2 in the US, is Compile Heart’s newest title."

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Godmars2905063d ago

1) Hope they put it on disc this time.
2) Hope this is a positive for Neptune coming over as well.

Demons Souls5063d ago

If so, that's being developed & published by Idea Factory. Compile Heart has nothing to do with it (Thank God for that).

Godmars2905063d ago (Edited 5063d ago )

Thought Compile Heart was one of the companies lending characters.

Was also speaking in general as in regards to a US of Neptune. If these guys are offing a second game, NIS or Atlus, both of whom offer quirkier titles, will put that one out.

@kagon01:
My issue isn't - wholly - with the DL-only option, but the price. The first game should be $30. Maybe $40, and by that I mean $39.99. The only reason its $45 is the 360 disc version which has extras. Nevermind that by all rights its a PS2 game. Something that proabbly could have been done if the devs had the GOW2 engine or tools.

ClownBelt5063d ago

I approve of this god damn message.

Could have gotten my 60 bucks if they just put it on a disc.

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Tripl3seis5063d ago

Another exclusive damnn the ps3 keeps on rollin wit games awesome ;)

Jack-Pyro5063d ago

Is this a half decent SRPG, porn aside, cause if it is, i might just decide to go and buy it for the 360.

Anon73495063d ago

There's no porn just some sexual innuendos but that's it.

Also it is a great game by itself, maybe not graphically but everything else is top tier.

RedDevils5063d ago

so it had some kind of "top tier" porn story jk

ThanatosDMC5063d ago

Yup, it's a decent game. I just hate that a move has to go first before any attack options.

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Bless Online Korean MMORPG Gets Server Merge

This is not the first time that Bless Online receives a server merge in Korea. An announcement was made on the official Korean site.

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Bismarn2653d ago

Bless must be an amazing game to be on all these platforms (according to the tags): iPad iPhone Nintendo DS PC PS Vita PS2 PS3 PS4 PSP Wii Wii U Xbox Xbox 360 Xbox One