Early next week, we’ll be integrating additional community features into PlayStation.com. We are excited to roll-out the first phase, which includes the ability to sign-in to PlayStation.com and, soon after, PlayStation.Blog with your PlayStation Network ID. Of course, your PlayStation Network ID gets you access to all the good things on the PLAYSTATION 3 and PSP, including games, movies and TV shows on the PlayStation Store, online gaming, and, soon to come for PS3, PlayStation Home.
In addition, we are making enhancements to the gamer profile features. Your profile will include your PSN online ID, your avatar, and a short “about me” section. You’ll also be able to display your friends list and, on the game detail pages, you’ll be able to include ratings and reviews for all of your favorite games. These features were created so that you can make new friends, learn new tricks and tips, talk trash, offer advice, console the defeated, praise the winners, and more.
If you have an Underground account on PlayStation.com and haven’t already merged it with your PlayStation Network ID, click here to do so. If you don’t have an Underground account but would like to create a PlayStation Network account to participate in the new features on PlayStation.com, click here.
We decided to dissolve the PlayStation Underground program in order to provide more PlayStation fans with a glimpse into the PlayStation Network world via the web. We hope you enjoy this next step in the evolution of PlayStation.com.
Stay tuned; before this year is over we’ll have more enhancements for your gamer profile.
What happens if I am in GAP and do not have a PSN account. Will I lose being in GAP but when I make a PSN account I get my GAP badge back or would it be gone for good?
Thank You for Lessening to my Post’s about the Link between PlayStation.com and the PlayStation BLOG and using our PlayStation PSN ID’s…
Will get rid of our SPAMMERS :D
Awesome news cant wait to check this out
Dang! I was almost a 128 bit. I should have gotten the rank any time. rrrrrrrrr! So close but still so far. That stinks! I hope what your giving us in return is well worth it Sony.
So are we going to be able to send messages and receive messages from PSN Friends now?
Sweet!!!
SONY is the best, thanx for all the good stuff and plzz keep it coming…
:P
sweet! I just got my email, hey I still wear that GAP T-Shirt you guys sent me. :D
Most excited about being able to log in here on the Blog with my PSN Callsign, which should be incidental to me considering that they are identical. I am EvoAnubis everywhere I go online.
I linked my account months ago, and just saw the GAP notification in my inbox 20 minutes ago. Glad to see more features rolling in!
cool, been waiting for an overhaul, I love where sony is going with everything, it’s all coming together!
this is awesome,keep it up sony :)
Keep bringing the goodness. The built in web browser is a major advantage over other HD consoles on the market, and things like this will continue to help the Playstation brand grow its community.
Id love to reg for a playstation network account but I live in Japan and the only Language option is Japanese, but I don’t speak Japanese…Any way around this? :(
yes i linked my account “KingFrak” a long time ago
@Daisenshi
register for a US playstation account.
Can I assume that the Playstation Blog will be FULLY PS3 browser friendly now?
nice and plus playstation home and killzone
Very nice…
Online trophy information soon I hope?!
Sounds good!
And we defiantly need a way to show off our trophies online on the web, not just on our PS3s.
Susan, will you be releasing the login-plugin/module to the world, so other Playstation centric blogs around the planet, could use psn to authenticate it’s users?
Just so I understand this, does this mean we will be able to have the “Profile” you see on your PS3 and use it on other websites in your signature? Or do you have to log into the website to be able to see it?
Will it also track your Trophies like the PS3 version? It would be nice to have an automatically updating signature in forums that tracks games played, trophies won etc.
Sounds like this is a first step to that…
Out of interest does this only apply to US residents or will it be a global system?
Slowly but surely it improves.
great news!
I like it. Moving to one ID for everything PlayStation is the right way to go.
Where I work I am on the IT team moving our company in the same direction for all the employees IDs. Good to see a small company of 1,000 is on the same page as the millions of PlayStation users. :)
Wow! Awesome.
This has been ask many times before but never answered as far as I know.
I had two Underground account, and sadly, I’ve linked my PSN account to the wrong one. Is there a way to unlock the old accound, and link my other one instead???
Thanks
Thanks Susan.
Sounds like great things are coming; keep up the great work !
Really Cool
i wish i had HOME =(
Great job guys….
Keep up the great support…
Ugh…4 pages of people talking to themselves. Why is it when these blog entries are from SONY employees with Senior in their title they don’t bother to interact…are you REALLY that freaking busy that you can’t spend an hour responding to some questions?
Hire a minion if you have too.
You guys need to go mobile. That would be really cool.
You still can not link two underground accounts to one network id…or merge two underground accounts…I had asked this question in the past (case #5512847). I thought now since the undergound is dying that maybe this problem would have been fixed.
@ skaterricky
Did you receive an e-mail to link your playstation.blog account?
Please share the link is you don’t mind.
Thanks!
I wonder what the changes will be for us Gamer Advisory Panel members. Hmmm…
THIS IS BULL SONY!!!
You have us PS3 Fans here waiting like your paying us, when we’re paying you.
1.WHERE IS “HOME”???
2.WHEN ARE WE GETTING “HOME”?
3.WHAT’S THE TIME & DATE WE SHOULD EXPECT TO SEE AND GET THE “HOME” UPDATE?
4.I HERD OVER AT TGS 08 THAT “HOME WILL COME OUT ON OR AROUND THE 19TH
GIVE US PS3 FANS A BRAKE, AND GIVE US SOME INFO ABOUT ALL THIS?
(WHY HAVEN’T YOU GUYS GAVE US PS3 FANS ANY UPDATE OR INFO ABOUT “HOME” ON THE PS3 BLOG?)
NOTE: YOU GUYS BETTER DO SOMETHING FAST! Cause the Punks over at Microsoft continue to work fast and keep their end of the deal to keep their Xbox fans happy. XBOX FANS HAVE ALREADY GOTTEN THERE “NEW XBOX EXPERIENCE” DASHBOARD UPDATE.(5:30am EST on Nov 19,2008
P.S. Look at it this way sony! Now Xbox will get so much more sales when they display there “New Xbox Experience Dashboard” over the counters. When Playstation 3 will still have basically the same “XMB interface” Next to theirs. The PS3 system will look like a joke!!! MARINATE ON THAT SONY…
oh man this is great… i think all ID should be link to your profile on the psn… Man ps3 and psp keep getting better and better
@183.. chill dude, there doing the best they can… the only thing i see you do is whine and complain… shesh!
Well it’s about time we get a makeover!
Who cares?! Where’s HOME?!
@185 Its ppl like you that let Sony get away with pushing HOME forever. It was SUPPOSED to be released DAY ONE!!! Cmon Sony, get with the progam.
progRam duh
well i rather have products that work like they are supposed to and wait the extra time than to have a piece a crap given to us early that doesn’t work (i.e. Fallout 3) and have to wait for a patch to fix the problems that should have been taken care of already…I am all for quality assurance
Add Blog support!
“and, soon to come for PS3, PlayStation Home”
What do you mean by that? PSN ID is already supported in PS3 and Home.
You guys at Sony need to get rid of Veronica Belmont. She’s actually promoting Xbox 360’s new Avatar. What on earth is going on?
Check the link below.
http://www.joystiq.com/photos/nxe-avatars-of-the-rich-and-famous/1174298/
The integration you guys are doing is excelent, keep it up! One suggestion I have is that the playstation blog posts should all apear on the PS3 information board.
So Susan…Are there still plans to have a my space-esque type web page for your Home avatar like Phil Harrison was previewing at one of the recent keynotes? Is this redesign part of that?
@ 185
Dude, I can feel his frustration. It’s been 2 years since Sony announced PS Home. Xbox 360 actually beat us to the punch. That’s pretty sad.
PS HOME CLOSE BETA
PS HOME CLOSE OPEN BETA
PS HOME BETA ver. 0.2
PS HOME BETA ver. 0.3
PS HOME BETA ver. 0.5
etc…
2 Years pass…That’s just BS!
Empty promises as usual. Nothing new. How on earth did M$ beat you to the punch Sony? Please explain that to me and a bunch of other people. I have a very good feeling that PS Home will not be fully released this year. We are going to keep on seeing open betas until mid 2009 or later.
Sounds suh-weet!
I forgot a few beta steps. LOL
PS HOME IN-BETWEEN BETA
(Some are in the beta and some are not.)
PS HOME SPECIAL QORE INVITE BETA
(Buy your way into the beta.) @.@
Sweetness!