PlayStation Around the Web: What We Read

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Here’s what we read this week: more of “anything-and-everything-MGS4-related.” At least you don’t have to ask why we haven’t linked to Firmware 2.40 rumors this week.

As always, feel free to share your favorite reads in the comments below. Comments may take longer than usual to appear – we don’t work on Sundays.

The PS Blog weekly reading list (Week of 6/16)

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  • Haha, it wont stay exclusive forever, that’s for sure (the demo, that is).

    Don’t hold your breath though, I doubt “Sony bosses” would confirm that the demo will be available in the PS Store for free at a later time, due to them (And Future Inc) wanting people to put money down on the Qore service..

    Besides, I think Qore is worth it, you aren’t really losing much by putting down 2 bucks a month.. I mean, just dont go out and eat junk food for a week or so, and you’re set! :P

  • I’m in France,so I can’t access legally to the Qore ,yet …If a Qore comes in Europe, I will,maybe ,put 1 or 2Euros a month to get access to exclusive(or temporary exclusive)contents..

  • Yeah, that’s a real bummer. I don’t think it will come to Europe, sadly.. But just like a magazine, Game Informer wouldn’t go to Australia would it?

    Could happen, but I doubt it. :(

  • What’s the countdown on the offical forum of Japan, Sony?

    http://www.jp.playstation.com/scej/title/or2/

  • I guess none of them posted, but I was messaged a countdown on the Sony forum of Japan

    I have the link but it won’t post for some reason.

    What’s the countdown for, Sony? It’s a weird encryption kind of thing too.

  • Countdown?…

  • http://www.jp.playstation
    .com/scej/title/or2/

    Connect that together.

  • http://www.jp.playstation.com/scej/title/or2/

    Man, just type this in

    http://www.jp.playstation.com/scej/

    then

    title/or2/

    Just do that, man. I can’t do anything right this morning.

  • Nevermind, it’s a joke. I just now got it, actually. Forum posters being stupid from what I gather.

  • It says 4 days, 7 hours and x ammount of mins and underneath it says ORZ or ORI and the more you click it the clearer it becomes. No telling if it is PS3 related or not, but either way… it was interesting for a few seconds.

  • WOW. Resistance 2 is looking extremely ordinary. It doesn’t look like much of an improvement from the first game. In fact, I haven’t noticed anything really different or innovative. I suppose the 64 player online will be cool, but by the sounds of it, you’re all kind of kept separate anyway, so who cares?

  • Jeff these grains of salt are amounting to the size of a beach.. Give us at least a 2 wk window man.. lol

  • Hi Jeff. an offtopic question:
    Do you follow soccer matchs from other countries ? like England,Spain,Argentina..
    I think that in the US ,soccer is not as big as on the rest of the world.

  • where is 2.40 you sparkling wiggles?

  • I hoping for more First party game news like Killzone 2, LBP, Resistance 2.

    Also 2.4 please :D

  • What is with all the kicking and screaming over the next update? You KNOW what’s going to be on it! Do you really care if there’s anything else, let alone a teaser for what may not come for a month or more?

    That interview on LittleBigPlanet was really nice- thanks for that. Loved the article about that “Metal Gear” Fan too. It was a great week. :D

  • To all of those tired of hearing things like: “Where is 2.4?” and “Where is in-game XMB?”

    Please keep in mind, if most people are asking about it and you are not, then you are in the minority and your requests should come second to what most consumers seem to want. That is, of course, if Sony has good business sense oif meeting the greatest demands of customers as a priority.

    I want InGame XMB really bad, it is one step on the road to competing with XBOX. One step with many more to come.

    Although I am tired also of hearing everyone ask for it, I do realize, as you should too, that this feature has been delayed and delayed while demand for it has continued to grow and grow.

    Honestly, the ability to do a lot of XBOX Live!-like things (cross game chat, in game messaging, ingame friend adds) should have been built in to the system from day one. Makes me think that Sony dropped the ball here, big-time.

    Don’t fool yourself into thinking that just because your hardward is superior means that the system is better…. BetaMax was way better than VHS!

    I think Sony needs to put a lot of focus on the social networking aspects of it’s gaming platform in order to viably compete with M$. And yes, before you ask, if the PSN had many of the Live! features I would pay for it.

    Just my thoughts here.. I am a big PS3 fan, love the system, think it is far superior to XBOX in all ways save one, social gaming. I also own an XBOX and find myself playing it more solely due to it’s superior Live! features.

    *Looks forward to the day when he can say “I cannot beleive I still own an XBOX, I should sell this POS on eBay or something*

  • terminatorvsmtrx

    ha i love how most of these posts die off at around 65 comments.. but im really glad to see that mgs4 is seeing such freakin awesome success.. if it were up to me it would have sold at least 10 million copies already.. GOTY ALL THE WAY!!!!!!

  • @Desidarius

    I appreciate that you are quite anxious and that’s fine, but I know it, Sony knows it, and everyone who is tired of hearing it has known it. How has spamming worked out in the past? I can tell you right now that it didn’t seem to light a fire under anyone last time. You may be tired of hearing it (though not as tired as they are of hearing this spam), but when it’s done it’s done. The PS3 has already bypassed the 360 in that it is leaps and bounds ahead of where it started. Our ‘humble beginnings’ if you will, though many jumped on long after.

    I’ll say it again: when it’s done, it’s done. Programming is not a simple task, and certainly not as simple as the average smart**s will have you think. Just taking a intro-level Computer Sciences course, I can tell you it is an incredibly involved process. And these guys have to work around every title out there that’s already been released, which means a painful amount of play-testing. Can’t have half of the PS3 install base crashing.

    Have patience- they ARE working on it, and you WILL get it, but only when it is considered decent enough to release.

  • @Jeigh,

    I was not suggesting that programming is a simple task. I am a senior systems analyst and have been programming computers (C, C++, VB. .NET, and so much more it is pointless to name them) since before Windows, before the PC and long after-wards as well.

    This challenge is far less of a programming challenge than it is in vision, planning, logistics and infrastructure.

    I will tell you from my VAST computer programming and systems analysis experience, the programming is the easy part. The reason these features didn’t exist from day one is due to lack of vision (or priority) from Sony. Simple as that.

  • Man, overkill. I didn’t mean to post that so many times. My browser got stuck or something. Sorry about that mis step.

    • links have to be individually approved (spammers), so if you\’re patient, it\’ll show up when one of us gets to it…

  • @orz people

    It’s a PSP game btw. Go here and click the PSP tab: http://www.jp.playstation.com/scej/ Orz is under there and not the PS3 tab.

  • @ 73 Jeigh and @74 Desidarious
    We all know that is not a simple task, besides there are various versions of PS3 hardware wich makes a lot harder every change on the OS.

    Im with Desidarious on some of his points, the launch plan of the PS3 was bad, and they had to make various SKU.
    I think that now ,SCEA is heading the right direction , PS3 sales and titles have been bettering a lot .

    Just asking if anyone knows: The PS3 OS was developed by SCEJ and the upgrades are developed between SCEJ and SCEA ?
    I think that SCEA is more online-community oriented , and SCEJ more bluray-multimedia oriented.
    Cheers

  • The countdown on that SCEJ page seems related to Yuusha no Kuse ni Namaikida for psp. If you repeatedly click on the ORZ it turns it into OR2 followed by one of the slimes from that game crawling at the bottom. Considering this never made it over here and I doubt it will thanks once again SCEA not getting my hopes up.

  • Jeff, if you could pass this info on to the right people. Left 4 Dead looks killer, man! Why can’t Sony create something like that in house? Something in 3rd person, though. Sony desperately needs new things and with games like these not being on the ps3 it only hurts them overall and us, the consumers.

    Sony needs to get on the ball with new IP!!

  • Hmmmm the last two posts by Jeff have mentioned 2.40 in the entries…could this be a hint that it’s coming very soon?

  • I heard there is maintenance scheduled for tomorrow from 8:00am – 2:00 pm. So it could be on it’s way pretty fast

  • Wasn’t there suppose to be News/details about FW 2.4 update “Soon”?

  • Jesus. Christ.

  • For gods sake man

  • its not going to work =/

  • You know what!!

    If you cant beat em join em, but then again..

    Oh well I dont want to get banned, enjoy your day.

  • hahaha Joel! yeah you ever heard of being a leader and not a follower? take that with a grain of salt. if you follow suit on this blog and spam like most on here then yes you will get beat and you will most likely be banned for your previous post. I hope you enjoy your day as well mate!

    On a side note tomorrow I’m heading into Hot Topic for the second time in my life to go and pick up those two sweet MGS4 tees!

    and did anyone of the top 50 get their shirt yet?

    l8ter,
    Lh

  • Hey, are we going to hear about the PJM couple stories any time in the near future? And I mean “near future” on my scale (i.e. within a week) and not on Sony’s scale (i.e. from the Middle Age to the Digital Age).

  • I am getting sick of people asking when 2.40 firmware is coming out as well.

    however on a lighter note MGS4 is gonna be the game of the year.

  • I got it,it has to be more personnal if I want an answer…Mmmm…Mmmm…So,Jeff,or Jeffrey,or Joseph…Will the demo of Naruto(and the other ones) be temporary exclusive to the Qore’s customers or not?I mean,will it be released on the Store a few weeks later?
    Thanks for your answer,and have a nice day!

  • Jeff what ever happened to Rat Race? Not sure but I thought it was supposed to be out months ago.

  • @jeff

    What if I just replied to the message today?!

    Will the shirt still be sent?

  • Yes, we’re waiting for features that should have been there since the damn launch of the system.

    And there’s no point in asking since they won’t give us the release date. They’ll most likely make us wait until E3, which is pointless but it’ll most likely end up that way.

  • yay me first comment is deleted…

    so much a blog for the Fans… and the Freedom of speech…

    Nevermind this msg is going to be gone too…

  • Jeff, Grace, Noel, Eric anyone who will listen you can’t let this travesty happen to us, man.

    Einhander in the Japanese store and not ours here in America or even in Europe? That hurts. Xenogears aswell. Square games would kill over in America. Vagrant Story, Xenogears, Parasite Eve 1 & 2, Final Fantasy 9. C’mon, hook us up over here, please.

    We’re beggin’ … Well, I am.

  • SCEA please give us the SE titles. All your doing by not releasing these titles is making people spend money in the JP store when you could have the money instead.

  • @101

    Whoa, wait… So if I buy a game from the japanese store is it in english or is it in japanese?

    I was told it wasn’t and that is why I never have. I’ve been on hold out for

    Resident Evil DC for a long damn time now.

  • @102 it will be in japanese.

    however, for a game like einhander which has little to no text anyway, it doesnt matter.

    since japan has PSN cards, anyone from any territory can buy stuff from their store.

  • According to this report Japan will be getting plenty of Sqare-Enix PS1 games: http://pspupdates.qj.net/Square-Enix-to-release-PS1-games-on-PSN-Japan-starts-with-Xenogears/pg/49/aid/121478

    I’m hoping someone here can appeal to the higher ups who are in charge of greenlighting PSN content to get them to bring these games along with more PS1 games to PSN. Whoever it is isn’t really doing a great job at choosing PS1 games. I haven’t seen anything I’d want to buy yet (of PS1 games, I have bought plenty of PSN games).

  • something else that could help out is if you send emails directly to SE at support@square-enix-usa.com.

    If SE get a couple thousand emails this, i think they might come around

  • I like all of the MGS topics. However Konami fails at online! Took me forever to finally get on MGO…And also you can only have one account per PS3, and I share mine. So sucks for the people in my position.

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