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Playstation Store redesign coming April, Warhawk expansion in April + MORE!

Guticb | March 04, 2008 | News | Playstation 3 Playstation Portable 
An interview with Sony's John Hight revealed new information about the Playstation Store, Warhawk, and much more. It has now been confirmed that the Playstation Store will get a redesign in April. He has also stated that the new Warhawk expansion (Broken Mirror) should be out by April of this year!

Another thing he was asked about was why the Japanese store seems to have more content (Specifically PS1 games) than the US Store, to which he replied that the US will be getting it soon.

Overall, it's a relatively lengthy interview, but definitely a good read.
I'm curious to know how the model for payment and UI for PSN has been evolving over the year-plus, and where it's going in the future in terms of simplification of interface and all of that to help digital games get distribution easier.

John Hight: You're talking about on the network platform itself, and the store?

Yeah.

JH: I'm not the best person to answer that. I'll answer what I know, but we actually have some folks who are specifically responsible for that.

We give them a lot of feedback based on how our customers are reacting to things, and I think you will see a pretty big change in the PlayStation Network in the early part of April, where we roll out some new interface stuff largely based on customer feedback.

Simplification, cutting down on the number of mouse clicks, making it easier to find stuff that you want to find... that's kind of an outgrowth of us having more content now, so we have to make sure that you can get at it easily.

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    tallteen86 | March 05, 2008
    Probably coincide with HOME's release.../speculation

    We don't realy know much....But a store Re-design would be good...The current one isn't all that bad, but it could certainly do better.

    I expect Movies and Music DL service along with this update, or at least within the year >_>
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    iLLmatic | March 05, 2008
    Damn, amongst all the bad press, its really been sounding like Sony was just testing the waters with the PS3 in its first year. There's so much coming in 08, starting in a couple months. I wish Microsoft would come outta the closet.
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    Existenz | March 05, 2008
    I hope the PS Store is almost instant, i mean the XMB is a fast and slick interface and then you get the PS Store which is slow and clunky and just doesn't fit.
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    Nemo1208 | March 05, 2008
    yeah they need more ps1 games b/c you cant find them no more and it would be cool to play some of my favorite games again!

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