Posts Tagged ‘Europe’

PlayStation Network gets video

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

It’s here!  It’s finally here!  Video will be available to purchase/rent on the PlayStation Store tomorrow (19th), or as SCEE like to call it: the video delivery service.  I accidentally came across the information just now when reading a SCEE press release on one of my old email accounts.  In the future, I can see myself using this service a lot.  Neat.

Tags: 19th, 2009, Europe, November, PLAYSTATION Network, PlayStation Store, PSN, SCEE, video
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PlayStation Europe blog address now live

Friday, April 17th, 2009

PlayStation Europe blog address now live- Check it out at http://blog.eu.playstation.com/ coming Summer 2009.

Tags: blog, Europe, Official, PlayStation
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Portable IDs now with Trophies

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

For more of a background on the PlayStation Network and what Portable IDs are, please see my previous post on this matter, ‘Sony unleashes ‘My PlayStation Network’ on eu.playstation.com’.

Slowly, but surely Sony’s provision for ‘gamer cards’ are catching up with what Xbox Live gamers have taken for granted for years.  To show you the new Portable ID, I’ll display my full Portable ID with Trophies and such:

Whilst it looks vaguely nice, I had been tempted to say it looked liked it had been beaten with the ugly stick.  I guess that for me, it’s just too big and cluttered.  Perhaps fine for including in forum signatures, but not for display on people’s personal websites and blogs in the sidebar, for example.

Something else has been nagging me ever since Portable IDs were launched in Europe.  For the love of God, why couldn’t they simply look like the virtual version on your PS3′s profile screen?  Here’s a piccy to illustrate:

PS3 Profile Screen- Image from Wikipedia

If you can see what I mean, they’re much easier on the eye, yes?  You can chalk this up as another decision by Sony that at times leaves me bewildered, and at other times with my head banging against a wall.  Unbelievable.

And so, I’m interested in what my fellow PlayStation Network brethren think about this latest development in our own personal gamer cards, but also on the aesthetics of it.  I’m particularly interested in what Xbox Live gamers have to say on this: a step in the right direction?  A joke?  If so, why?

I just hope that Sony don’t think their work is over yet.  Whilst I applaud them on the inclusion of Trophies, the visuals need to be ‘tightened’ up a bit.

Tags: Europe, forum signatures, PlayStation 3, PLAYSTATION Network, Portable ID, Sony, trophies, Xbox Live
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