Well MVC certainly think so. During read an interview between Scott Steinberg (VP of Product Marketing at SCEA) and GameDaily, it was hinted that Sony may go beyond a simple facelift of the store even stating that the service would be overhauled (I take this to mean something other than the simple facelift).
Among the hints given was that of a TV and Movie service (most likely to combat that of the XBOX360's) all which may arrive sometime in 2008.
BIZ: What is the growth path for PSN in terms of how fast Sony is going to upgrade its features. Obviously, there are a lot of people clamoring for an in-game friends list and all sorts of things like that and at some point, they want to see movies available either for rent or purchase through the service and even just the interface, the user friendliness of being able to navigate... when can we expect an overhaul?
SS: 2008. I think it's not a shock to think of 2008 as important for two reasons. One, the software lineup, the standards discussion is past us. The software lineup is here. I think we're at the point to say we're ecstatic about what we have in 2008. It's finally to the point where there are no standards uncertainties, so consumers now can evaluate us on the skills and attributes of our lineup, and we've got an incredibly diverse lineup. On the network side, we've stated that we're in a closed beta now for Home, we'll be rolling out functionality later this year, both for the Network and making Home public to others. So 2008 is going to be the year where both on the service side as well as on a Blu-ray side, you're going to see everything that we've got. And what's interesting to me is that the Blu-ray side represents such big blockbuster type games and the Network has the potential for startup products, entrepreneurial games that are smaller, more affordable and I think represent a different kind of creativity than the Uncharteds or Resistance 2s or the LittleBigPlanets.
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