Sony Network Entertainment has signed a deal with Content Licenz Agenture to supply VOD titles for PlayStation 3 and other Sony devices, including the PSP and mobile phones.
A new method of payment on the PlayStation Store has launched that doesn't require a debit or credit card.
sadly yes.. but hear out my story!
Latvia isnt even included in the register country list and dont have a store at all.. :) thats only one example, neighbour countries like Lithuania and Estonia suffer from same stuff.. and that is Europe! The list gets really huge so we need this sort of payment method!
I'am registered with fake account from Finland (have nothing to do with that country) just have no other choice to pick up the closest one available!
Nice start would be that I could just pick up my real country and country flag so I am represented correctly, this far people like me are forced to hide our real identity with fake accounts.............
A step in the right direction but really in 2016, two factor authentication should be an industry standard in an optional capacity for absolutely anything which stores bank card details. I hope Sony plans on adding that down the road sometime this year.
Hit up the PlaystationBlog and forward that as an idea. A lot of PS owners visit it, so you should be upvoted to the top in no time - I know I'll vote for your idea!
All I did was sign up for an American Express Serve. And I use that for all my online transactions. Its prepaid and you just load money when you want to use it. They are so many options but good to see Sony come out with their own. For gamers seeing a logo they know like Playstation could be more reassuring.
I usually just buy PSN cards but this is a pretty good option as well. Not to mention you can pay a lot more than just PSN with them.
To celebrate the fifth anniversary of the launch of Playstation Plus, Sony have started emailing long-time subscribers with the offer to get their hands on something unique, personalized, and for free.
Hmmm nothing for me and I've been with it when all we got was one psone game two minis and some avatars. Ah well.
I downloaded PS+ within friken 10mins of it being announced by Jack Tretton...yet I have no email... (yes the boxes have ben checked) and I have been shafted on betas n sht....
I mean....come on.....Im not asking for much....
Awwww, I have switched accounts since the start, had ps+ just switched which account, so I probably won't get it = /
so u HAVE to be a CURRENT plus member?
I mean I was a plus member before but I stopped my subscription after 3 years of being a member. do I get nothing?
and is this for NA? I spent a lot of money on the psn store. I hope I get something. don't be stingy sony ...
You should never cancel PS-Plus, that's like,, canceling breathing......Lol JK but seriously, I'm sure if you re up it you'll most likely get something, that 3 years is logged.
Ha, I got one after only being a member for a year. I guess someone screwed up at Sony's. xD
Gimme ma free print!
@ritchi lucky you considering they said you need to maintain it for the full 5 years
Only had plus on this account for a year and few months and I got the email.
wtf. ive had mine for at least 3 and 1/2 maybe 4 years and have a surplus for like 2 more years, and i haven't gotten one yet.
My account is at least six years old and I didn't get anything. I've had plus since it was first a thing.
I've had PS plus sense the second day it cake out on auto renewal and haven't got the email at all ... :( lol
Same here since launch, I haven't got anything yet... (US account)
If it's like any other time they send out emails, they usually don't send them all out at the same time. I've noticed they're spread out over a day or three.
I have a feeling this will be similar to the "Loyalty" coupons they did last year. They sent them as a thank you to "loyal" customers but I think its more of a random thing... I never got a coupon and I have been a subscriber since the beginning and have bought SO many things digitally. Hopefully Im wrong though.
ha to be fair, US gets some awesome flash sales... Europe gets a personalized card (which i'm betting the US will get eventually)
i'd much rather the flash sales (not that i qualify even for this gift)
I'm in UK, been a PS+ subscriber since the beginning this is the first I've heard of this. Haven't received any email. Mind you didn't receive the one that went out for people that bought 1st gen Vitas either after Sony lost their court case.
the Vita one was US only if i recall correctly.... the PS+ one i'd say get onto someone from sony, they'd fix it
I wish I had jumped in Day 1 for PS+. I didn't see the value.
Now I am swamped with PS+ games I will never play. Just downloaded Call of Juarez to the PS3 last night so I wouldn't miss Junes PS+ PS3 games....I will NEVER play it.
Too many games with PS+! not a complaint!
Agreed. It was a slow start to begin with, but has evolved into quite a decent package imo.
Agreed. My only regret was not getting it sooner. I'm mad too because ended up buying games that where already offered to PS Plus for free!!!
I've sat there and contemplated PSN purchases too!
These 1st world problems are a serious mess...../s
I have barely played my PS3 since I got a PS4, even if I had Backwards Compatibility on the PS4, I probably wouldn't play that many PS3 games on it.
Fired up Portal 2 on my girlfriends account for some good co op split screen last week, but still it's tough for me to go back...
...I have a lot of Batmaning to do.
"I wish I had jumped in Day 1 for PS+. I didn't see the value. "
Why? Early Plus wasn't that great of a deal and it wasn't until at least a year that it started to improve.
For exactly what I'm going to miss out on if this deal does come to NA,
maybe the prestige of being a day-1 will earn you some cool stuff like Microsoft did with XBlive Day-1 subscribers?
This specifically;
http://images.eurogamer.net...
"For exactly what I'm going to miss out on if this deal does come to NA, "
I'll never grasp this logic. So, you're basically saying you wished you thought ahead and paid more for Plus so you could earn a loyalty reward, even though the prize is still hypothetical and could potentially cost you more money in the long run? Yeah, hard to not see the value in this.
"maybe the prestige of being a day-1 will earn you some cool stuff like Microsoft did with XBlive Day-1 subscribers?
This specifically;
http://images.eurogamer.net...
Not to be rude, but I'm going to take a stab in the dark and assume even if you had Plus since day 1 you would not earn that prize. The console was awarded to select people and be it random or merit (like PSN level), I'm willing to bet you would not win, so you would end up with a prop or a print, but you would be out $50+ bucks. Maybe I'm overthinking it, but it just doesn't seem worth it to me. -shrugs-
I suppose it may as well be nothing at all but a thank you.
Plus, PS+ has "payed for itself" ten fold and counting. Every single month you have it, it "becomes cheaper" So even if the 1st PS+ line up was weak (which it was hence why I didn't jump in) I missed the total over all value that PS+ offered and whatever this will be.. if anything at all. I guess we will see.
New optional PS Vita Software Update v 1.69 is now available to download
For what? 3 or 4 games? It needs to be way more then that to take off. Sure, future games might have it, but it needs to be on older ps3 games as well.
Honestly, if I could remote play all my PS3 games via Vita, I'd get a VIta in a heart beat.
Atm, they keep touting Vita as a extension of ur ps3... but you can't even remote play the games -_- so much for 'continuing the game where you left off'
It was understable for PSP, but Vita has enough keys to be able to act as a DS3 controller.
Man what I'd give to be able to play Red Dead Redemption from college via my Vita
I want to be able to add all my PS1 games into my memory card all ready... i have 22gb of free space.
It is up to the game developers to implement these features. Take it up with them!
When was the last time the ps3 got a GOOD update. How about a mini in game xmb and a real web browser?
give the people there making the d@mn software some time; God if any of you was even in the armed forces, that is a prime example of "hurry up and wait" you would not last 3 min's there with that kinda attitude you have; god your worse than little 4 year old children.
Even a 4 year old get's a lollypop in their mouth and shuts up every now and then.
they are working on it. BUT..BUT WE NEED YOUTUBE, and it's getting released the end of the month..but..but it should have been on the system aready right from the start. Really? and why is that? did you make the d@mn thing? did you pay for the people to make it's software?
IF no than you do not know what was to be released on the d@mn machine from the get Go.
you may say my Attitude sucks, and that im a fanboy defending Sony. No where am i defending Sony; Im simply saying the people who make the d@mn software and work on it every day is not your d@mn slaves. for $249.00 to $300.00 one time payment does not give you the express right to sit there and keep looking over their shoulder crying about features that they are working on , but are not being done fast enough for your impatience.
how about people stop harping about it over and over, they did not forget about your request the last 1000th time you asked about it last week!
instant gratification generation
http://www.psychologytoday....
you know there's a problem when there is a whole subject on the matter right now.
but my cell phone is sooooo slow...the signal there sparky is being shifted through a satellite
the cellphone was not even created until 1973 and the first mobile telecom phone was not yet commercially available until 1983. How many of you were born before 1983? if so you are older than the d@mn technology that was created.
Of course i get a disagree...but yet many on this forum still think it's overun by PS3 fanboy's defending their console of choice. When no it's just over run by fanboy's period.
Actually we did pay for the people to make the software. It's a part of the $250 - $300 each of us had to pay when we got the system.
Yeah, cuz you need a good web browser on your console lol. Seems you have no trouble considering you're online right now posting. You probably have 4 browsers. PS3, phone, Vita, laptop, etc....
How many browsers does 1 man need? PS3 is for gaming, not surfing. It does the web just fine.
Umm, If it was worthless, it wouldnt be a update right? EVERY update is for a reason. Nobody releases updates just because.
Most updates are just to keep one step ahead of hackers so they arent of much benefit to gamers.
Some on on this site said
"Gravity Rush is just one mediocre game and MGS: HD is WAY better on consoles (Vita doesn’t even have Peace Walker HD). Vita is dead (how ironic) and Sony as a whole will soon follow, just look at their crashing stock and company value. F ‘em!"
Then another replied
Are you gamers or stock analysts?
I find it hard to believe that any real gamer who isn’t a diluted fanboy would want Sony, one of the only companies constantly pushing new games whose competition pushes other companies as well, to fail.
@Jason
“MGS: HD is WAY better on consoles” Yeah? And so is Mario. Your point is invalid.
I’ll be enjoying great games like Gravity Rush while you wallow in hatred."
^
This guy deserves a medal for being a true gamer. Why would you ever want a company to fail? Do you get excited with hundreds and hundreds of layoffs? Fanboys are the scum of the gaming world, and they are all in good need of a swift kick to the balls
We're inching our way to 2.0, which will give us partial PS1 support for the PSN's partial library.
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Huzzah?
Oh you lucky bastards who will get it tomorrow. It launches in EU June 15th and then I will have to wait for a week-long delivery :(
downloading it now.... can't wait for Gravity Rush tomorrow... might pick up metal gear also!
yeah man ive had my vita since day one and that was the big seller for me. i developed alot of paitent waiting on the game industry to release shit, but i really want to enjoy my vita more and its hard to wait. right now im just playin my consoles. :/
