A Whole New PlayStation Store for PS3
Monday, March 31, 2008 1:52 PM PT Posted by Matt Peckham
What do you get when you smarten up a clunky browser-like interface and drag access to all its goodies down local-like? Try the new PlayStation Store interface, coming sometime in April, localized and optimized to make browsing for content less of an eye-squinting, d-pad tapping fiasco.
If you've used Sony's PlayStation Store much, you know it's more or less like using a gamepad to navigate a browser. You've probably at one time or another lost the cursor while tapping around, groaned waiting for half the screen to refresh after a screen change, and generally felt like you'd traded the snappy confines of the PS3's native interface for something tacked on and klutzy.
Sony's PlayStation Store 2.0, coming soon to a PS3 near you.
As you can see from the screenshot above, the new PlayStation Store looks like it's part of the PS3's native interface, probably because it will be, and while you'll still access it via the XMB (XrossMediaBar) you won't be whisked off to somewhere else, but instead zip around in an ostensibly-as-snappy menu schema that breaks things down a bit more the way Microsoft and Nintendo already do. There's no shame in pointing that last bit out. It's not who gets it right first, after all -- just ask Blizzard.
The only downside? Per Sony:
To enable enhancements to be made to the store, no additional downloadable content will be posted prior to the revamp, starting April 3.
Existing content will remain available, of course, and PlayStation Store updates should be back on track middle-April, with the addition of Gran Turismo 5 Prologue.
Source: PCWorldLabels: PlayStation 3, PlayStation Network, Sony |
