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Four Changes the PSN Needs to Make

"There’s no doubt that we here at PSN Fans love our PS3s. With that said all good things have their faults and can do with some refinement. Usually at around this time (four or five years) into a console’s life-cycle, we’d be preparing for a turnover of generations that see new consoles toting much more powerful hardware, new media formats, and in this generation’s case, a whole new platform to distribute and play games: the online realm.

Since the beginning of this generation we’ve seen massive refinements to online services across all consoles, and seeing as how we’re not making that hardware transition any time soon, there’s likely to be more coming. Here are some improvements I’d like to see made before this PS3’s cycle ends." PSN Fans

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cain1414590d ago

I wish every game came with a demo.

Relientk774590d ago

That would be so nice, with games priced at $60 these days, I definitely agree with u.

darthv724589d ago

i'd like to see the mini's get demos as well. How will I know if I'm going to like the game if I cant try before I buy?

I did try my luck on "a space shooter for 2 bucks" and it was worth it.

QuodEratDemonstrandm4590d ago

I probably wouldn't have bought Infamous if I didn't play the demo first. After my experience with that game, I had Infamous 2 preordered in Feb and I preordered Festival of Blood yesterday. For better or worse, a demo will tell a gamer if he'll like the game or not. It might stop some of the really great games from getting overlooked, as well.

darthv724589d ago

the demo of the original infamous didnt impress me as much as the demo for infamous 2 did. Then when infamous was be3ing given as a game on the welcome back program I got it and it is pretty good.

Sometimes the demos dont do the games justice but without a demo you wont really know and for the most part you cant just return stuff like you could years ago.

Infamous I am having more fun with the full game than what they offered in the demo. It goes both ways.

SH0CKW4VE4590d ago

It definetely needs a more fluid system for inviting friends to games and messaging friends while in game.

Right now its convoluted to do either.

mandf4590d ago

How much easier does it need to get. You select your friend then send invite. Explain to me how much easier you can get. It takes FIVE count them five button pushes and bam invite sent. Xbox takes 4 presses of the button. This is a 2006 argument and a stupid one at that. This is the first gen of consoles that online play has become mainstream. Other than Sony, MS, and Steam, there is no other system to base any argument or comparison. I play video games not social features.

mandf4590d ago

Love the disagree with no explanation.

Too_many_games4589d ago

i think the reason that inviting/messaging people in game on the XMB sucks is because it tries to load up everything at once, if it JUST loaded up my friends list it would be fine but why bother opening up system settings if i cannot even use it?

mandf4590d ago

This garbage again. Nothing like beating a dead horse. You want social go to facebook. It's a VIDEO GAME system. The store lets you buy games and it works. Name ten other products that have the equivalent functions and features or better. Stop hating and enjoy what you have.

BitbyDeath4590d ago

A lot of Sony's OS issues stem from a lack of memory.
No amount of wishing will change what we have, even Home could be vastly better if it had a lot more RAM available.

Unfortunately we will have to wait for PS4 to improve a lot of the existing features.

Back to the games people.

PLAYER50954590d ago

this is nothin to do with psn but how bout being able to play music while in the store. fn stupid when listenin to music and when u go to the store it stops. really wish for that. listenin to some Bone Thugs N Harmony while browsin thru the store would b tight for me

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7 Deserving Games That Never Got Backward Compatibility

Backward compatibility works for many games on newer consoles, but titles such as The Simpsons: Hit and Run have been left out.

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20 Best Survival Games of All Time

From base building to swinging willies, here are the best survival games around, which include a couple of less than obvious picks.

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Microsoft once tried to nab LittleBigPlanet from Sony after a few drinks

It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.

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XiNatsuDragnel2d ago

Microsoft had a good idea but fumbled it again.

Cacabunga1d ago (Edited 1d ago )

Project Spark idea was decent but they quickly gave up ..
LBP was wonderful

ApocalypseShadow1d 18h ago

Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
https://www.playstationlife...

They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.

They're scum.

Zachmo18223h ago

Microsoft didn't force MLB on Xbox. MLB gave Sony 2 options either go multiplat or risk losing the license.

Rynxie13h ago

And why do you think MLB said that? I believe Ms approached MLB.

ApocalypseShadow12h ago(Edited 12h ago)

Totally ridiculous comment.

The only exclusivity Sony had was to their own creation of The Show. Microsoft could have paid the MLB for the license just like Sony did and made their own baseball game.

Microsoft instead, groomed MLB for years in trying to poach Sony's game and bring it to Xbox. They're worth 3 TRILLION dollars. You think that's not enough money to make their own baseball game? Don't be delusional.

Microsoft spun it like they always do and told the media that they had to trust Sony with their hardware. After they put Sony in that position of not having a choice. Either go multiplatform or stop making one of their successful games. That's a no win scenario.

And what did Microsoft do? They didn't try to sell the game to the Xbox community. They put it on game pass to hurt Sony. Pushing the idea of why buy games that are $70 when you can play them in their cheap service for $10. It was a dirty tactic.

You fell for the Kool aid drink Microsoft served you instead of spitting it out. Hope it tasted good because you were fooled by Phil and the gang.

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Xbox executive Sara Bond has told Axios that Microsoft spent a number of years trying to get MLB The Show onto Xbox consoles. And when it finally succeeded in breaking off PlayStation’s long-held exclusivity, the company had to “trust” Sony with pre-release Xbox Series X/S consoles.

Bond revealed that MLB The Show “always came up” in conversations between Microsoft and the Major League Baseball organization. “We always said, ‘We love this game. It would be a huge opportunity to bring it to Xbox.'” she recalled. However, when Microsoft’s efforts materialized, it put the company in an awkward situation where it had to send in pre-release consoles to a rival company.

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Notellin9h ago

"Microsoft instead, groomed MLB for years in trying to poach Sony's game and bring it to Xbox."

Take a nap, conspiracies are rotting your brain.

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Xbox executive Sara Bond has told Axios that Microsoft spent a number of years trying to get MLB The Show onto Xbox consoles. And when it finally succeeded in breaking off PlayStation’s long-held exclusivity, the company had to “trust” Sony with pre-release Xbox Series X/S consoles.

Hereandthere4h ago

They were too cheap/inept/lazy to develop their own mlb game, so they port begged for years and bribed the mlb to make the show multiplatform. Like i said many times, xbox brought nothing to the table their 24 years, ZERO.

OtterX1d 1h ago

"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."

Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.

RNTody1d 1h ago (Edited 1d 1h ago )

Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.

But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?

Inverno1d ago

Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.

Inverno22h ago

They shut down the servers, that's millions of user created levels gone. That and dead are pretty much the same, it's also been years since 3 and they cancelled HUB soooo.

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fsfsxii9h ago

They shutdown the servers because no one was playing, no one in the community cared about the user created levels so why keep them up? Wtf you guys would never succeed in running a business.

Inverno8h ago

Yea dood no one was playing so they shut off the servers. Cause people with enough common sense can't just Google why they were actually shut of, right?

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