PlayStation Store Undergoing a Redesign Next Week

79
Richard Walker

Sony has today unveiled a completely new look for the PlayStation Store, which is set to arrive on the PlayStation Network next week. As well as a total overhaul, the PS Store will be getting a bunch of new features and increased functionality.

The storefront is a more visual affair, highlighting new content, alongside dedicated sections for games, movies and TV shows. You can also scroll through the pages form left to right, with a carousel set-up enabling you to easily leaf through content quicker and more easily than before.

The search facility has also been bolstered considerably, with better filters, a smarter search that starts looking based on the letters you enter, and spelling errors are also catered for. Searching for a game will present you with all of the DLC, demos and other related content, recommending similar titles in the process.

You'll also notice that it eschews the bright blue of the old PS Store for a smart black background. It all looks very aesthetically pleasing, we must say. The revamped PlayStation Store will be heading to PAL territories from October 17th, before being rolled out in North America on October 20th. Check out some grabs from the new PS Store below.




Comments
79
  • ...my god it looks kinda like the xbox live market place. I liked it as it was before, or currently as I should say -_-
  • Looks great, I love it !
  • Yeah I can't help but notice the resemblance to the Xbox Live Marketplace. Not digging the new style at all. Maybe it'll grow on me.
  • I think it look's good
  • I think it looks great
  • looks beautiful, maybe they could get round too a XMB redesign soon?
  • PlayStation Store looked really outdated and incredibly useless to search contents. Visually the new one seems great, I'm looking forward to test it.
  • looks great, so glad they are changing it because with all the recent little changes they have been making its just awful and getting more complicated to use by the day.
  • Looks awesome :)
  • I hope they make already downloads more easier to browse/search
  • Looks nice - I just hope it actually works now. There were far too many times I looked where something should have been and it wasn't there.
  • I'm not too interested in how it looks, I just want to see a more functional downloads list and the promised web access to allow us to better interact with PSN through a browser (e.g. purchasing, messaging and deactivating old bricked machines). Hopefully that'll come along soon :)
  • I have to LOL at this!!! EU getting it first, then NA???? Something fishy going on here... my guess is we that fall under EU are guinea pigs!
  • What about our 0% when can we start delete them?
  • Haven't I seen this before?
  • I think it looks cool. Now all they to do is update the ps3 hub cause its looks really dated.
  • Looks sweet! Maybe a bit too dark? I hope they organised items better, sometimes I had to go through many categories before reaching what I was looking for.
  • Looks like it will take even longer to find stuff now. Xbox Marketplace totally sucks now with all the ads and menus that you have to search through. PSN actually made it easy to find the new releases, PS1/PS2 games and other stuff. Now it looks like you will need to dive into 3-4 menus to find the PS1 games and older PSN games...
  • Glad people are referring to this redesign as Xbox Marketplace like. Haven't heard any problems with that.
  • Guess I wasnt the only one who thought it looks like the xbox marketplace. Not very happy about this, new is good, but this doesnt seem to be heading into the right direction. Pretty embarrassed for Sony right now!
  • Please please please please please please please PLEASE say we can switch it back to the old format if(when) we decide that we don't like it, please!
  • I want to be able to search by price
  • Looks so much nicer, we don't say it enough but well done sony!
  • You should all watch "ill manors" great film :) I like the new look :)
  • i like the new look.
  • looks like they combined the xbox live marketplace with steam.
  • My first impression was also that it looks too much like xbox shop.. I dont like carousel menus. Not here, not anywhere. I also don't think black looks "smart". Modern times have too little color in it. Using only shadows and lights makes everything so boring and . It's todays trend, and I hate it. If this is permanentIm getting worried they will make silly differences to the XMB too. Sony shouldn't think they will get more use for store if they turn it more generic. PS Store is unique, and all that carousel-scroll thing is straight from xbox/touch screen phone menus. XMB is Sony. They should let it be like it is until PS4.
  • Not a fan >.
  • I wish they would redesign how the trophy list is displayed. Condense it down some way so it isn't so long.
  • The new look isnt bad. Hopefullly now i can see title names against a black background, the blue was a strain on my eyes. Hopefully the download list will have folders for downloaded games, avatars, demos, themes etc. Not a bad look at all.
  • kind of looks the the xbox dash. but it still looks nice.
  • I hate the new look and I can't see it being any easier to use :(. @14: That will never happen, a lot of people want it to but it won't.
  • looks shit
  • Well... It does look good and I do see a search bar which is very good, I don't like searching stuff manually at most times, takes way too long (like in the Xbox Marketplace). Looking forward to it, especially now that I can soon connect my consoles back to the internet...
  • Looks like Xbox 360 now
  • I'm a regular customer, and I like the new design! I miss the episodes of Pulse though..... :(
  • it's getting a little bit more like X-BOX 360. but the thing that I think that X-BOX has better than PS3 is that you can buy things with your achievements, which is something that you can't do with trophies on PS3
  • while it visually looks smoother sleeker and cooler... i am not a fan of the metro layout that it loos like
  • It looks confusing? Why the change? It is already good and I can find everthing now.
  • could care less about the style, what about the substance. In other words, is it less confusing to find what I am looking for. Right now is not bad, but everything can always be improved
  • Redesign the XMB.. not the store D:
  • About time. At times it would take ages to load and some stuff wouldn't load at all!
  • I really hope with this update comes youtube app for ps3 and ps vita (finland and other countries missing those )
  • Stop comparing people GODDAMN. It looks nice.
  • @44 make a US account if you want the You Tube app.. thats what I did :)
  • *sees headline* Oh boy, this will be great! The current PS Store is kind of slow and poorly ogranized, so this has to be an improvement! They certainly can't make it any worse, right? *opens article, sees pictures* ... It looks like 360's metro dashboard on my Playstation. They found a way to make the Playstation Store worse. I'm just going to go see if Professor Farnsworth has room for me on his shuttle off this planet now. @37: It's 2012 and people STILL think GamerScore and Microsoft Points are the same thing? That's just beyond said, and another reason why I hope there's room for me on that shuttle.
  • Simplicity > Complexity It would be better if they had an option to switch back and forth between the current layout and their new layout instead. That way there will be no complaints.
  • Ew.
  • No sir, I don't like it.
  • Not diggin' it either..
  • looks nice I like it
  • They need to fix the download list page they need to remove demos from it and themes and group the items into the ABC thing like when you go to add ons but it only shows you the DLC you have bought not all games. Themes and DEMOS should be cleared off the download list completely as its just serious clutter.
  • @#54 I agree the two things that have needed to be improved were always the downloads list and the store, both were an eyesore. I especially have hate the way the downloads list can not have the option to look at demos, game downloads, and add ons on seperate sections rather than a cluster of all the above. As for the store, i think it would be a wise idea to have 3 different skins when going into the store to appease the general audience.
  • I really hope they organized your downloads to seperate Demos, DLC, Avatars etc.
  • people shut up with this xbox crap marketplace ps3 is where the money is at so SHUT THE FUCK UP and enjoy it..its about time we got a update on something damn.
  • i hate it . sony dont do it!!!
  • I don't like it. It looks way too much like xbox marketplace and i really don't like that.
  • First thought - looks nice. Second thought - I doubt it will be easier to use.
  • I'm all about change as long as it's good and I hope it's easier to navigate.
  • @56 I don't think so. Xbox gets a new dashboard soon and people are complaining about it.
  • I'm surprised no one even compared the new look to Video Unlimited, which so happens to be a Sony service. It's identical to THAT.
  • I think they should work om à app for smartphones and tabletts so you can live chat with your friends on psn instead of improve the design on psn store. Of course its Nice with good looking stores but à app for My iPad should be even beter:)
  • I am damn excited for this more professional look that we see above. Excellent decision on the facelift that the PSN was OVERLY DUE for. Handsdown greatest change IMO is the very welcomed lack of this horrid blue mess I've been, (For WAY too many years.) forced to look at. THANK YOU SONY, SO SO SO SO much!!!!
  • Hardly ever use the store but it does look much better.
  • looks like xbla now err when did microsoft take over?
  • I don't like the look of this, i had no problems browsing the old store, and please tell me there will be other colours availible than black, and please tell me that not all the menus will be carouseles i like the fact you can see more than two titles in front of or behind you at a time that is the benefit of normal menus, it feels like a lot of steps backwards to be honest.
  • Its confirmed that the download list wont be changed but they are looking into that for a future update
  • Now they just need to do sort out the extortionate prices of digital downloads.
  • I know I can't tell from the pics, but where do I see my downloads??? I don't see the option anywhere on the screenshots. In the "Old" PSN I had an option up there in the right side of the screen to track the history of downloads so that I could re-download an old game or dlc.
  • I checked the "new store" on an EU account. Gotta say Im not a fan yet. Looks nicer, but too much like Xbox. My biggest complaint is the loading time. Not near as fast as our current store. Hopefully they fix that issue, but I wont hold my breath.
  • New store looks good, but id like to have seen a difference to the download list, maybe being split into catagories so its easier to redownload the stuff
  • it's bad... it's like steam and xbox marketplace had sex and something terrible came out
  • Oct 30th.... they're still late.
  • You guys haven't seen STEAM BIG PICTURE yet? That's what it more closely resembles, not Xbox.
  • November 8th WTF.
  • Worst update - redesign ever.... And more heavier as a store...
  • I like the new deign mostly because the background isn't blue. I can't tell you how frustrating it was and how many headaches I got trying to read white words on a blue background.
  • Given myself a while before reviewing this, thought I might grow to like it but I don't. 1 - Takes longer to load on and off 2 - Harder to find items 3 - Doesn't fit my tv
  • really with this design with first update it was working good but once we got US Update it's started working very shit
  • You need to register before being able to post comments

Popular News

All News

Recent News

All News

Upcoming

See All

Popular Lists

See All

Popular Guides

See All