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.
Wow, what an improvement! I love the store’s design. Thanks.
This sound and looks amazing. Great job to the design team. This two weeks is going to kill me in having to wait. :-[ But it will be worth it in the end.
Can you tell us if the Store will still only be updated once a week or will it change to when new content is available? Like it may update three times a week?
hmm are you gonna update the store this thursday?
I must say the new store looks great, but I never did understand the complaints about the HTML based store. Those not able to browse it must not have noticed that the D-pad buttons hot-jump between clickable items (and thus make browsing the store very fast).
At any rate, the new software based store may mean that when new layouts and designs are envisioned, Sony will have to do full firmware updates instead of just changing some CSS on the server side unless they put huge assets into making this a client-side Java application (which I doubt but would be really smart).
PS Hey Sony, I want to be able to run arbitrary Java applets on my PS3 from the web browser to play online games, applications, etc.
@62 and as a follow-up to my last comment, what do you mean, faster? I can stream HD video from the store right now.
I have a 10Mbps down-link to my house and I get almost 1.2MiB/s downloading new demos, videos, etc.
Its not the store.
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Wow. I complained about this a couple of days ago and now they are doing something about it. I guess they do read comments. Where are the PSN cards???
The process of re-vamping the Store was a vast undertaking across all regions and with months and months (and months and months) or research and gathering feedback.
However, we do read and appreciate all feedback that is constructive and well presented.
The new Store is another in a long line of features we\’ve enhanced based on user feedback.
Thanks again to all of you out there who have taken the time to present constructive concerns.