May 29, 2008

PlayStation Store Update

Hey, everyone. It’s time again for the PLAYSTATION Store weekly update.

Add-on Game Content

Rock Band
Build your Rock Band library by purchasing these song game tracks. For song credits, visit www.RockBand.com.

“You’re All I’ve Got Tonight” – The Cars ($1.99)
“My Best Friend’s Girl” – The Cars ($1.99)
“Moving in Stereo” – The Cars ($1.99)
“Just What I Needed” – The Cars ($1.99)
“I’m in Touch with Your World” – The Cars ($1.99)
“Good Times Roll” – The Cars ($1.99)
“Don’t Cha Stop” – The Cars ($1.99)
“Bye Bye Love” – The Cars ($1.99)
“All Mixed up” – The Cars ($1.99)
“The Cars” Album ($14.99) – This album includes “All Mixed Up,” “Bye Bye Love,” “Don’t Cha Stop,” “Good Times Roll,” “I’m in Touch with Your World,” “Just What I Needed,” “Moving in Stereo,” “My Best Friend’s Girl,” and “You’re All I’ve Got Tonight” by The Cars.

File sizes: 26.6 MB – 41.9 MB (singles), 288 MB (album)

Rock Band price promotion: “Gimme Three Steps” – Lynyrd Skynyrd and “Dirty Little Secret” – All-American Rejects are reduced to $0.99 until June 5th.

Game Videos (free)

Top Spin 3 Debut Trailer
Download the official trailer for Top Spin 3 and prepare to be fully immersed in the fun, action packed excitement of tennis like never before.
File size: 92 MB (1080)

Battlefield: Bad Company Dev Diary – Characters
Join Patrick Bach, the Single player Producer, as he walks you through the process of creating interactive, funny, and exciting characters in Battlefield: Bad Company.
File size: 164 MB (HD)

Battlefield: Bad Company Sweetwater’s Blog
Private Sweetwater isn’t one to laugh in the face of danger. In fact, he’d rather find a good cave to hide in, but in B-Company, he’s faced with dangerous situations every day! See how he’s holding up as he talks to his loyal video blog subscribers.
File size: 92 MB (HD)

Dead Space Animated Comic Issue #1
Explore the horror on Aegis 7 as it unravels through an animated version of the first Dead Space comic created by Ben Templesmith and Antony Johnston.
File size: 210 MB (1080)

Project Origin Teaser Trailer
In the highly-anticipated sequel to the hit game F.E.A.R, Alma, a girl with immense power and a thirst for revenge, has unleashed her wrath upon the city of Auburn and thrown it into chaos.
File size: 159 MB (HD)

Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars Projectile Dysfunction
Experience the ultimate team-and mission-based multiplayer warfare, defined by award winning Return to Castle Wolfenstein Multiplayer, now set in the legendary QUAKE universe.
File size: 75 MB (HD)

Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars Human Juicer Video
Experience the ultimate team-and mission-based multiplayer warfare, defined by award winning Return to Castle Wolfenstein Multiplayer, now set in the legendary QUAKE universe.
File size: 70 MB (HD)

Movie and Blu-ray Disc Trailers (free)

Enchanted
For princess-to-be Giselle, life is a fairy tale – until she’s banished from the animated land of Andalasia and thrust into the very unmagical, live-action world of modern day Manhattan.
File size: 249 MB (1080)

No Country for Old Men
When a man stumbles on a bloody crime scene and two million dollars in cash, his decision to take the money sets off an unstoppable chain reaction of violence.
File size: 167 MB (1080)

PS3 Wallpaper (free)

Prince of Persia Prodigy Arabesque Wallpaper
Customize the background of your PS3 system with this new Prince of Persia Prodigy Arabesque Wallpaper.
File size: 135 KB – 410 KB

Prince of Persia Prodigy New Prince Wallpaper
Customize the background of your PS3 system with this new Prince of Persia Prodigy New Prince Wallpaper.
File size: 268 KB – 1.27 MB

Hope you enjoy!

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312 Comments

Seanscythe2
May 29, 2008 at 3:24 pm PDT

glad I have rock band …oh wait I don’t this is a lame update.
gardea
May 29, 2008 at 3:26 pm PDT

Another week without demos?
40swords
May 29, 2008 at 3:29 pm PDT

Well, I hate to beat a dead horse, but here goes.

I really dont understand. Someone from sony is reading this thread, so why dont you guys come and address some of our concerns, give a reasonable response.

Its beyond understanding why the PSN is so weak on content. Sony, you have one of the strongest back catalogs of games of any system, yet we have *&%@ available for purchase. Forget demos, WHY would you not capitalize on the HUGE PS1 catalog is absolutely mind boggling.

If you havent noticed, people WANT to BUY the stuff. I want to buy stuff, good stuff and you got it (hmm, sounds illegal) but what you dont wanna sell?

Where is FFVII, MGS, Vagrant Story, Bushido Blade, Einhander, Resident Evil, the list can go on and on. What is the problem? Why do the other regions have more classics than we do?

Are we barking up the wrong tree or something people, is Sony in charge of porting these kinds of games to the PSN or is it the games individual developers?

Besides SOTN, there are no real blockbuster 3rd party games available. Destruction Derby, and Crash Bandicoot just aint cuttin it anymore guys, sorry.

Its sad really, but Id really like a Sony person to come on here explain the mentality behind this strategy, it would really be appreciated by many, Im sure.
- Noel Silvia
  May 29, 2008 at 5:20 pm PDT
  
  \”Are we barking up the wrong tree or something people, is Sony in charge of porting these kinds of games to the PSN or is it the games individual developers?\”
  
  The titles that you listed are 3rd Party titles from SquareEnix, Konami, and Capcom. If you\’d like to see these titles on the Store, let those publishers know; let them hear from the fans that want to play these titles again. They are the original publishers for this region; they can\’t appear on the Store without their approval.
  Thanks for your question!
buri0819
May 29, 2008 at 3:30 pm PDT

come on sony youre being to arrogant with

youre ps3 and psn youre not the only console

on the block people need content to be happy

and they need features and games I paid $400

for this!
buri0819
May 29, 2008 at 3:32 pm PDT

Srew sony management you suck were are ps1

games!
candiria
May 29, 2008 at 3:35 pm PDT

what’s with the massive backlash? damn; i get what they must be thinking right about now.

@46 EU has their own perks.
chasegamez
May 29, 2008 at 3:38 pm PDT

SingStore where the update
gamesblow
May 29, 2008 at 3:40 pm PDT

Wow what a pile of junk they’ve unloaded on us this week. I thought last week sucked it was heaven compared to this. They gave us a bunch of trailers again … only to games that mean jack spit to anyone. Hey, sony… why don’t you do something decent and give us some demos and ps1 games. You know we actually would buy them. Why not take advatage of that fact? You idiots!
spearhead31
May 29, 2008 at 3:41 pm PDT

Ok, I was just looking at the Japanese store and noticed quite a few games that I wouldn’t mind downloading, so besides the obviouse lack of English, would I have any problems downloading them? ———Maybe if Sony would quit screwing the U.S. I wouldn’t have to ask…
gamesblow
May 29, 2008 at 3:42 pm PDT

You’d think at this stage of the game Sony would want to continue to impress but they seem like they don’t even care. I guess they actually thought GTA4 was good and that nobody cares about updates anymore. Here’s a clue, Sony… GTA4 sucked, but only half as much as your updates for the store do.
afrosheen
May 29, 2008 at 3:45 pm PDT

@43: I totally agree. I used to look forward to Thursdays, now I could care less.
Shinogu
May 29, 2008 at 3:46 pm PDT

Metal Gear Solid 4 Trailers. All of them. Please.
ChaosOrder
May 29, 2008 at 3:48 pm PDT

Five new games in the last five months…so sad. What am I supposed to spend money on without new content, Sony? If 360 didn’t have the RROD I’d pick one up.
RandomEarthling
May 29, 2008 at 3:48 pm PDT

So you spent a lot of time fixing the PSN Store with an incredible new interface. Now you’re providing nothing worth downloading so there’s no need to use the new PSN store?

If you’re not going to put anything new on the store, how about putting a sale on existing products. Just a thought.
Eoyote
May 29, 2008 at 3:58 pm PDT

As a PSP owner this update is sickening. Each week without any new PS1 games is slowly pushing me towards custom firmware and when that happens, I’ll never buy another item from the store.

Oh well, Sony doesn’t want our money it seems.
Jedah
May 29, 2008 at 4:00 pm PDT

PSN cards where are you???? I need you!!!
SDkngsht
May 29, 2008 at 4:02 pm PDT

ok…i’m going to just chalk it up to you guys working on all the things we’ve been asking for. i know not every update will be great.

but when the coolest thing in the update is a wallpaper? i’m saying…c’mon lol.

give us some motorstorm 2 or killzone footage or something. not every update has to be great and we shouldn’t expect that but people still do and will.
CyberChrist
May 29, 2008 at 4:07 pm PDT

@115

I hear ya loud and clear! My friend did that the day he got his PSP and now plays the PS1 games I only dream about. Somehow SCEA makes me feel like a sucker for taking the high road.
gtasmy
May 29, 2008 at 4:10 pm PDT

thanks for nothing
its stuff like this that makes me regret siding with sony during the “console wars”
and y the F$%& is sony backing Haze it sucks

bad move sony bad move
gamesblow
May 29, 2008 at 4:11 pm PDT

Sony’s always doing the dumbest **** always. I can’t think back to a time when the PSN store made sense, actually. What the hell is wrong with you people there? You have the content, upload it and let us buy it. Simple as that. You’re sitting on an archive of ps1 games and psp games that aren’t selling at retail no more. 1+1= PSN to me.
elmetfano
May 29, 2008 at 4:12 pm PDT

POINTLESS
gamesblow
May 29, 2008 at 4:13 pm PDT

Truth is, it’s summer time and that means games & consoles at retail dry up. They don’t sell as much… this is a perfect opportunity for Sony to step it up with the PSN content. Perfect one and they’re not doing it.
gamesblow
May 29, 2008 at 4:15 pm PDT

“Hope you enjoy!”

I love that at the end of the main post. It’s almost like Sony is slaping us in the face for the hell of it. Like we can enjoy anything on the psn this week and if I was going to enjoy it I wouldn’t waste an hour downloading it on the ps3… I’d just go to my computer and get it for free and save myself the time.
VenomX
May 29, 2008 at 4:21 pm PDT

Gamesblow where have you been? BTW, do you have a date for in-game XMB?
CyberChrist
May 29, 2008 at 4:24 pm PDT

@123

LMAO! That’s how I’m going to read it now at the end of every piss poor update like this one, all the while imagining Grace sitting behind her desk thinking, “boy, if they hate this update, just wait till they see the crap we have in store for them next week!”.:smileyvery-happy:
senjutsu_dav
May 29, 2008 at 4:24 pm PDT

Bah, nothing for me. I’m waiting for MGS4.
lanod
May 29, 2008 at 4:26 pm PDT

Where is Wipeout HD?
gamesblow
May 29, 2008 at 4:28 pm PDT

Venom I believe you’re wanting the real gamesblow. I’m just a fill in. Omegaknowsitall from gamefaqs… some of you might remember me>>>? The best troll this side of n4g. Anyways, I haven’t heard back from GB in about 3 days now. His youtube and his PSN got revoked.
psmgamer
May 29, 2008 at 4:30 pm PDT

No PS1 games again. This is worse than last weeks update but you can’t please everyone. I predict that the updates will get worse over the summer months of June and July.
gamesblow
May 29, 2008 at 4:30 pm PDT

The thing about this “enjoy” business is absurd and preposterous at best. I mean, how the hell do we sit down and enjoy 2 min video clips of unfinished games? I don’t know about you but I’m not looking forward to Dead Space at all and Sony just won’t stop putting new trailers uo for the damn thing. Sony, if you wanna tac up your network and store with shoddy material fine… but atleast cut down the number of shoddy content per game.
gamesblow
May 29, 2008 at 4:32 pm PDT

Suikoden
Suikoden 2
Resident Evil
Silent Hill
Metal Gear solid
Alundra
tomba

Just some of the games sony could be producing on their crapular PSN. this is out of this world crazy why sony continues to do this to us. We’re the ones who saved sony from being a total failure by believing in them.
Bruiser05
May 29, 2008 at 4:35 pm PDT

Wow…just wow.
ANOTHER week without a demo…way to let us down.
ALL ABOARD THE FAIL TRAIN.
CONFUSEDgam3r
May 29, 2008 at 4:42 pm PDT

Hmmm… I’ve never complained before but this update is pathetic.
gamesblow
May 29, 2008 at 4:42 pm PDT

Sony, why don’t you just put up a banner in the store that reads

“We’re under construction cause all of our content sucks the donkey… we’ll be back when we have content you gamers care about”

Sounds good to me, guys. Cause to date, I don’t think I’ve “enjoyed” more than 5 things off this pile of dung they call “PSN” more over if they can’t give us decent store content for us to “BUY” let alone download for free… what makes you think “HOME” is going to be a hit?
JamesL007
May 29, 2008 at 4:43 pm PDT

The Award for the weakest PSN Update of all Time goes too:

*Opening Envelope*

To Update of 5/29/2008, so come on down Grace Chen and accept the award on behalf of the team .

Seriously this is the weakest yet, Game Videos and wallpapers come on.
gamesblow
May 29, 2008 at 4:44 pm PDT

Not just any game videos, though james… Dead Space videos!! Like we need anymore to know it was gonna suck. It’s made by EA for crying out loud. Those slop dongs could tarnish gold by breathing on it.
gamesblow
May 29, 2008 at 4:46 pm PDT

I bet every week the guys here draw straws to see who does the PSN update blog. then they sit back and laugh at the comments being made to the poster.
OverlordLaharl
May 29, 2008 at 4:50 pm PDT

Jap store got Super Bomberman… why cant we have it :(
Stunt
May 29, 2008 at 4:53 pm PDT

It’s funny, because even though we’ve gotten an okay amount of game videos, we are still getting so much less than we should.

The “other” service gets bundles of game videos a day, something like you would see on GameTrailers each day. Yet, we don’t even have a trailer for games like The Incredible Hulk, or Alone in the Dark, meanwhile they’ve got every trailer for the games ever released.

I want more demos, more games, more PSone classics, more days per week for an update, and more customer support, because you guys really don’t get the message.
gamesblow
May 29, 2008 at 4:55 pm PDT

Sony would rather give us Jet moto 1, 2 and 3 and then top it off with a little Espn xtreme than to give us anything decent. Sony’s so out of touch with its consumers since Ken left it’s not evne funny. When Ken ran the show things ran smooth as glass. Now, we’re lucky to have them run on sand paper.
gamesblow
May 29, 2008 at 4:58 pm PDT

I remember when we’d get 1 midway game a week and that was it on the psn… man I wish those days were back. Even they beat out this tripe garbage. I also love how they keep giving us filler to make it look like a store update. These videos and junk… who needs this crap? We can get it on the computer in seconds, not min and hours on the psn. Sony needs to stop cluttering up their network wiht so much junk and start giving us quality content. all there is to it.
terminatorvsmtrx
May 29, 2008 at 4:58 pm PDT

alright ill be patient and wait another week before i make an angry comment.. this update is sad at best
gamesblow
May 29, 2008 at 5:00 pm PDT

If Sony wants to keep giving us vids on Thursday, fine… but I say on Tuesday they just give us demos of games. That’s the best way to do this… I haven’t even downloaded anything from the store since Echochrom and pixel junk. Last week was a joke and so was this week. Sony needs to stop with rainbow crap and get with the giving.
Bruiser05
May 29, 2008 at 5:13 pm PDT

I really hope that SOMEONE, ANYONE is reading these comments.
Seriously…I created an account on here today SPECIFICALLY to complain about this. This is inexcusable. Absolutely terrible. TWO WEEKS! TWO FREAKING WEEKS WITHOUT A SINGLE DEMO??!! Really Sony? You can’t give us a single game in two weeks? No demo? No original game? No PS1 game? Hell, not even any downloadable content? (except for Rock Band) WE DON’T WANT MORE ROCK BAND SONGS! No one in their right mind is going to pay every week for those songs. You guys better get on the effing ball and give us some content next week.
I hope that someone is reading this and sweating a pool on their seat. You better be worried for your jobs at this point. THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE. I am so disappointed right now. Usually I go through all these comments and laugh at all the people b*tching and moaning…but now I see I was just more patient than others. NO MORE PATIENTS SONY. GET ON THE BALL AND GIVE US SOME CONTENT. I guess I’m going to go and create accounts for the other Playstation Stores and HOPE TO CHRIST that there’s something on one of them to keep me entertained.
SHAME ON ALL OF YOU!
*wags finger*
SHAME SHAME SHAME
BTW LULZ @ Gamesblow
skasucka88
May 29, 2008 at 5:15 pm PDT

this is sad, the psn is not up to par with other consoles. i thought sony could do better but idk anymore.
skasucka88
May 29, 2008 at 5:15 pm PDT

wow just wow
DaCandyMan
May 29, 2008 at 5:19 pm PDT

Relax people, be patient, and just save your money for MGS4. 13 days left
gamesblow
May 29, 2008 at 5:22 pm PDT

Good one, Candy… be patient. Sure, like we have for a year and a half now. That’s tops.
stvnrndll
May 29, 2008 at 5:44 pm PDT

Any chance we could hear from grace on these comments? Mr. Noel Silvia’s red response comments are beyond justification. His “smart” and obviously amusing to himself responses are very inapropriate. Fan boys can argue and whine all they want. Thats what they do. You are suppose to be an adult, act like one! in 62 Your response of waving hello, im over here is just stupid. We as ps3 owners are upset that back to back updates were horible. Thats the facts. Talk to us like humans that are paying for your job. Your sarcastic attitude in 77 is childish. We understand its free. Lately its free garbage. I can go to the dump and get free garbage too. Microsoft wont charge me at the dump either! I chose sony to respect me not mock me. Free or paid for service. Grace print this out and show it to your boss if you want Noel’s job next.
- Noel Silvia
  May 29, 2008 at 5:52 pm PDT
  
  Having been told in previous comments that my responses have been too \”corporate\”, I was trying to add a little levity to my response to lighten some of the tension right here.
  I was asked directly by name to respond, and so I did. Obviously, major \”FAIL\” on my part.
  No offense was intended, and if any was taken, I sincerely apologize.
NissanFlyboy
May 29, 2008 at 5:52 pm PDT

man, why all the complaning? i mean when the good stuff comes it will come, all your doing is making the psn staff feel upset, i mean if you worked all day every day and then people start putting you down how would you feel???
- Noel Silvia
  May 29, 2008 at 5:57 pm PDT
  
  We encourage people to comment back here on the blog, and offer constructive criticism. After two weeks of no new playable content (game or demo), everyone\’s concerns and frustrations over new content are valid; no arguing there.
  
  Certainly this is a slower season right now, but it can still be frustrating to look forward to something and not have it.
  
  Thanks for the support, though!