The Official PSN Store Update Thread

[OcStat]

I played that game a little while back, because a musician I follow worked on the soundtrack (haha) never played a Splinter Cell before.

It was very different from the kind of stealth game I'd gotten used to with Metal Gear, which I expected, but it was fun from what I played! A lot of things going on besides the main campaign, which is great but can be overwhelming.

 

[vinamilk]

All minis available @ £0.99/€1.19
Monopoly
Hero Of Sparta
BREAKQUEST
Championship Manager 2010 Express
SPOT THE DIFFERENCES!
Zombie Tycoon
Stand O’Food
Fieldrunners
5-in-1 Arcade Hits
Bowling 3D
DynoGems
Echoes
Red Bull X-Fighters
Arcade Darts
VEMPIRE
Bloons TD
VT Tennis
Tehra: Dark Warrior
Sneezies
Mahjongg Artifacts
Additional Special Offers

(Offer prices available until the 16th February)
Rainbow 6: Vegas 2 (was – £23.99/€29.99 now – £15.99/€19.99)
Shaun White Snowboarding: The Mile High Pack (was – £3.99/€4.99 now – £2.39/€2.99)
Funky Lab Rat (was – £5.49/€6.99 now – £3.99/€4.99)
Disney’s Action Game Featuring Hercules (PSone) (was – £4.39/€5.49 now – £1.99/€2.49)
The Little Mermaid II (PSone) (was – £3.19/€3.99 now – £1.59/€1.99)
Vintage Comic Mickey Theme (was – £1.19/€1.49 now – £0.59/€0.75)
GTA IV: The Lost and Damned & The Ballad of Gay Tony Bundle (£15.99/€19.99) (offer ending Wednesday, 9th February)
Trial and Unlock (PS3)
Beat Sketcher (£7.99/€9.99) Rating: PEGI 3
Availability: All locales
Tetris (£7.99/€9.99) Rating: PEGI 3
Availability: All locales
Full Games (PS3)
Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 (£11.99/€14.99) Rating: PEGI 16
Availability: All locales
X-Men Arcade (£6.29/€7.99) Rating: PEGI 12
Availability: All locales
Full Games (PSP)
BlazBlue Calamity Trigger Portable (£23.99/€29.99) Rating: PEGI 12
Availability: All locales
Lord of Arcana (£27.99/€34.99) Rating: PEGI 16
Availability: All locales
PSP Bi-Pack – GRAW 2 + Splinter Cell Essentials (£15.99/€19.99) Rating: PEGI 16
Availability: All locales
Open Beta (PS3)
Killzone®3 Multiplayer Open Beta Rating: PEGI 18
Availability: Not available in Germany
Available from 11am GMT, Thursday 3rd February
Demos (PS3)
EA Sports Fight Night Champion Rating: PEGI 16 (USK 12)
Availability: All locales
PSone Classics (PS3 and PSP)
Crash Bandicoot 2 (£3.99/€4.99) Rating: PEGI 3
Availability: Not available in Czech Republic, Greece, Poland and Saudi Arabia
minis (PS3 and PSP)
MOZOX Space Salvager (£1.74/€1.99) Rating: PEGI 7
Availability: Not available in Portugal
Twin Blades (£2.49/€2.99) Rating: PEGI 16
Availability: All locales
Add-On Game Content (PS3)
ModNation Racers
Super Fan Mod Pack (£1.39/€1.75)
Helghast Mod Pack (£1.39/€1.75)
Rating: PEGI 7
Availability: All locales
LittleBigPlanet
Chinese New Year Costume (free)
Groundhog Day Costume (free)
Rating: PEGI 7
Availability: All locales
EyePet Move - Valentines Styling Pack (£2.39/€2.99) Rating: PEGI 3
Availability: All locales
Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock – February Mega Pack (£13.99/€17.99)
Downloadable Track Pack featuring:
‘Blooddrunk’, ‘Living Dead Beat’, ‘Was It Worth It’ by Children Of Bodom; ‘World On Fire’ by Firewind; ‘Get Your Gunn’, ‘Coma White’, ‘Tourniquet’ by Marilyn Manson; and ‘Parade Of The Dead’, ‘Crazy Horse’, ‘Black Sunday’ by Black Label Society.
Rating: PEGI 12
Availability: Not available in Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and United Arab Emirates
Rock Band 3
London Calling (Album) by The Clash (£9.99/€14.99) (contains the tracks listed below which are also available separately)
Brand New Cadillac (£0.99/€1.49)
Clampdown (£0.99/€1.49)
Death Or Glory (£0.99/€1.49)
Four Horsemen (£0.99/€1.49)
Hateful (£0.99/€1.49)
I’m Not Down (£0.99/€1.49)
Jimmy Jazz (£0.99/€1.49)
Koka Kola (£0.99/€1.49)
London Calling (£0.99/€1.49)
Lost In The Supermarket (£0.99/€1.49)
Lover’s Rock (£0.99/€1.49)
Revolution Rock (£0.99/€1.49)
Rudie Can’t Fail (£0.99/€1.49)
Spanish Bombs (£0.99/€1.49)
The Card Cheat (£0.99/€1.49)
The Guns Of Brixton (£0.99/€1.49)
The Right Profile (£0.99/€1.49)
Wrong ‘Em Boyo (£0.99/€1.49)
Rating: PEGI 12
Availability: Not available in Czech Republic, Greece, Luxembourg, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and UAE
Rock Band Network
‘Fate of the Maiden’ by Amberian Dawn (£0.99/€1.49)
‘Gabrielle’ by Ween (£0.99/€1.49)
‘Jumpers’ by Sleater-Kinney (£0.99/€1.49)
‘Roll the Dice’ by Damone (£0.59/€0.79)
‘Steppin’ Lightly’ by Gov’t Mule (£0.99/€1.49)
Rating: PEGI 12
Availability: Not available in Czech Republic, Greece, Luxembourg, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and UAE
FirstPlay (PS3)
FirstPlay Episode 43 (£0.99/€1.20)
Availability: Ireland and UK only
Dynamic Themes (PS3)
Lama Themes – Dynamic Valentine Hearts Theme (£1.59/€1.99)
Wallpapers (PSP)
Legends of War: Patton’s Campaign Wallpaper 7
Videos (PS3)
Dead Space 2 Launch Trailer
Plants vs. Zombies Trailer
My site: Tiny Tanks Tiny Planes Carracing Game Donkey Kong Unblocked Super Mario Unblocked Run 3 Unblocked Run 4 Unblocked Run Unblocked

 

[Primal Slayer]

Does anyone here use PS Vue? and if so thoughts?

 

[Benstamania]

I have it, love it. Dropped my tv service snd I save about 150 a month now.

 

[Havok83]

Price of Plus will increase to $60 next month.

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2016/07/27/playstation-plus-free-games-for-august-2016/

They better improve the games they offer. It will look bad if they increase the price by $10 and its the same type of games people have come to expect. At this point, there is no reason why they cant offer at least one guaranteed retail game a month

 

[Soapy]

It would be nice I guess, but I doubt it.

 

[Marvolo]

Playstation Plus has been a giant waste of money for me so I doubt I will be renewing. The games they offer are uninteresting and I dont play online.

 

[O'Haire]

Playstation Plus has been a giant waste of money for me so I doubt I will be renewing. The games they offer are uninteresting and I dont play online.

Yup.

I got a free year when I bought my PS4. When I saw it was running out, I didn't give a damn. There wasn't anything worth downloading when it came to free games the whole time I had it. Only useful thing was the decent sale prices. But even that wasn't enough to get me to renew.

 

[Benstamania]

In the long run I don't care.. I paid for Live for years.. So it's whatever. I do agree that their free games need to improve.

 

[Havok83]

September 2016 Plus titles:
Lords of the Fallen, PS4
Journey, PS4, PS3
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands, PS3
Datura, PS3
Badland, PS Vita, PS4, PS3
Amnesia: Memories, PS Vita

 

[Havok83]

PlayStation Plus Games for November

• Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, PS4
• The Deadly Tower of Monsters, PS4
• Dirt 3, PS3
• Costume Quest 2, PS3
• Letter Quest Remastered, PS Vita (Cross buy with PS4)
• Pumped BMX+, PS Vita (Cross buy with PS4 and PS3)

 

[venom892]

Quick question, I plan on buying a PS4 in a few weeks. For Example, If I buy Virtua Fighter 2 and DL on my PS3, will I be able to redownload free of charge on my PS4?

 

[Havok83]

Quick question, I plan on buying a PS4 in a few weeks. For Example, If I buy Virtua Fighter 2 and DL on my PS3, will I be able to redownload free of charge on my PS4?

VF2 isn't on PS4

 

[venom892]

So the PS3 and PS4 stores are separate. If I buy something on my PS3, I won't be able to transfer it over?

 

[Havok83]

So the PS3 and PS4 stores are separate. If I buy something on my PS3, I won't be able to transfer it over?

Yes they are two different consoles with their own game libraries. The PS4 is NOT backwards compatible with the PS3. Sony introduced crossbuy late in the PS3's life cycle when the Vita launched in 2012 where some games you purchase grant you access to the other console's version, but the game must be on both consoles. Example, Journey is crossbuy between PS4 and PS3 but Trine 2 is not

Some PSN games released since the PS4 came out in 2013 are crossbuy but very few prior to 2013 are. Even then its not guaranteed. You may want to do a search on PSN or Google to verify individual titles. I know for a fact that VF2 isnt on PS4 so you are out of luck there

 

[venom892]

Thanks for the info. I plan on keeping my PS3 so it isn't a big deal, But I wanted to see what was possible.

 

[psylockolussus]

PSP Games Will Continue to be Available from the PS3 and Vita Stores

35 online PSP only lost "forever" is said to be available to ps3/vita psn stores.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Push Square - Report: How PlayStation Is Failing Indie Developers

Kotaku - PlayStation Is Hard To Work With, Devs Say

“Oh yeah, so there’s Nintendo who supports you,” one such response begins. “[Then] Microsoft who supports you and [then] there is Sony who supports its own AAA machine and gives a **** about everyone else.”

As Bloomberg reported in April, Sony shows extraordinary caution even with the games it makes itself, with an obsessive focus on blockbuster success. According to that article, the Japanese corporation is moving away from developing smaller in-house games, so fixated are they on only the largest games. It seems this lack of interest in smaller titles extends to third-party developers attempting to sell their games on the system.

“Sony does not understand what indie means,” an independent publisher tells me under the condition of anonymity, via Twitter DMs. “Not at all. For them indie is something in the lower million budgets.”

 

[psylockolussus]

I'm not surprised. I would be surprised if indie games are more featured in psn pages more than games from the big publisher games. And of course big publishers have the money to pay Sony to promote/feature their games frequently in the online store.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

It fits with PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan saying he does not like the look of old games ("Why would anybody play this?"). This is also reflected in the indifference and hostility of current Sony towards lower-budget indie games.

 

[psylockolussus]

It fits with PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan saying he does not like the look of old games ("Why would anybody play this?"). This is also reflected in the indifference and hostility of current Sony towards lower-budget indie games.

I think he/Sony management would budge as long as the game is popular or if the developer or publisher is willing to pay for a feature spot. Among Us appeared in a State of Play livestream. Isn't that an indie game?

Imo, this is mostly about the money. You want your game featured, pay 25k to Sony. Or else your game would be buried by blockbuster games that are from the big publishers.

While the approval for a psn sale is another issue but it obviously has do with power and pecking order. If the game is more popular and drives more sales or published by a big company - that game is likely to get approved faster.

If Sony treats them like a 3rd class citizen they are probably better off selling/putting their game to another platform like Steam.