This morning, SCEA announced that the PLAYSTATION Store will be revamped with a new look in mid-April. We’ve heard your calls for a more fluid Store interface, and we think you’ll be pleased with the results.
As some of the most passionate and knowledgeable PLAYSTATION 3 fans out there, here’s some additional information on the revamped PLAYSTATION Store.
As you can see in the above screenshot, the new interface allows customers to browse through eight primary categories, rather than four, making it easier to locate games, demos, game add-ons and other content. It also enables us to put up to twice as many items per page, significantly cutting down the time it takes to browse through content.
Customers will be able to access, browse, shop and download content as usual prior to the store’s re-opening. However, no additional downloadable content will be posted prior to then, including this Thursday, April 3rd, and next Thursday, April 10th. Regularly scheduled content updates will resume with the Store’s re-opening, at which time additional games and game-related items will be added, including the downloadable version of the highly-anticipated exclusive PS3 title Gran Turismo 5 Prologue.
When the PLAYSTATION Store is set to re-open with the new interface, PS3 users will be prompted to download a firmware update which will enable entry to the new store.
We’ll continue to update readers of the PlayStation.Blog on the status of the PLAYSTATION Store upgrade – including a video walkthrough – in the coming days.
@ Someone from PLAYSTATION:
Will we be able to play our music while browsing the new store??
I’m actually really looking forward to this. Since I bought my PS3, I had wondered why the Store used HTML (since HTML is made for a computer mouse, not a Sixaxis) instead of something more… dynamic?
However, I won’t be wondering that anymore, as I am really looking forward to the new store!
Out of curiosity, if I remember correctly (which I might not), a couple games linked to the Store either to upgrade to full versions from demos or to buy expansions. Will such links still work?
@101
I asked the same thing too lol
https://blog.playstation.com/2008/03/31/new-playstation-store-interface-coming-in-mid-april/comment-page-2/#comment-51923
Hopefully someone from Sony can answer :)
Nice, I read on some site (Joystiq?) that the store will update more than just thursdays. Is this true?
And also are Playstation Cards actually coming out? They were promised for early 08, and there hasn’t been anything mentioned since. I even went to the official playstation store in SF and they had no idea when they were coming out. I really want to buy stuff off the store, as do alot of other people, but we can’t until you release the cards. Thanks
Please,
Don’t forget to add search to the store. While we have 500 items, it’s ok to browse… but I hope we get to 1000, 10000 items soon, and being able to search is a must because it is scalable!!
Thanks and Congratulations for the update!
Well this new store still allow PS3 owners to download PSP games from the store and transfer them over to the PSP??
I lack Windows XP (2000 still works fine for me) so I can’t use the PC Store.
You betcha!
PSP Games and Demos will still be available for purchase and / or download through the new PlayStation Store.
You should be able to find them under the \”Games\” tab or \”Demos\” tab, similar to how you can now.