The list is not easy to get to or very user-friendly; the bigger the list, the more difficult it is to find what you’re looking for. It is sorted by date of purchase and it is currently not possible to change the sorting order.

As a way of enabling this, maybe it’d be worth rolling out digital downloads to more retailers? The PSN store on Amazon in the US seems pretty reasonable. The UK version doesn’t have PS4 stuff yet (as far as I can see). I’d like to see that improved, and more retailers able to sell digital copies of games. I imagine that’ll help digital pricing; the presence of some actual competition, assuming the wholesale rates are in-line with physical.

+1 The search is terrible on their site.

100% agree with this – I’ve often been about to hit ‘buy’ on a Vita, only to see how ridiculously expensive the memory cards are, and stopped. I can’t be the only one.

Anyway, any queries i had have been mentioned above. I wanna know when ps4 is gonna get mp3 support! I wanna be able to play nfs rivals and listen to my own choons at the same time off a usb stick! 360 did this perfectly, ps3 did it for some games. Surely ps4 can handle it?

I would like to see reductions on sale price similar to that of US PSPlus users.The sale price for these users is usually 75% off the original rrp.

I would like the removal of the 100 icon limit on the vita too.I’m pretty close to the limit just now, and have my eye on a number of vita games due out later this year, thanks to Shahid!

Good luck with your meeting.

GOOD:
– PS+ Free Games are an unbelievable bonus and they should keep it up. Honestly, without this I probably would have stuck with the Xbox One (I was a 360 owner, and loved it).
– Region Free Hardware/Hard Copies is also very important.
– Even though its now compulsory for multiplayer, the pricing for PS+ is just about okay where it stands right now (but only looks like that if Free Games continue) and I’m happy to fork out this amount per annum.

BAD:
– Region Locked PS Store, Can’t access same deals/games as US accounts and I was unable to redeem any of my codes (which came with a US box). I expect that Playstation Now will have similar issues.
– Pricing, In Australia, new retail releases come at 105AUD (both Xbox and PS), which is almost double the US retail price. Considering that Australia has free trade with the US, has a GST of 10% and there shouldn’t be major shipping costs due to the small size/weight of games, why the price is this high is beyond me (besides mutual greed). I’m sure the issue is the same over in Europe.
– DLNA support, I read somewhere that they are planning to put it in post-patch but until then this is a major issue for myself, and many of my friends, because we use our consoles as global media devices for our home. I am tired of having to switch to my Xbox 360 in order to watch a digital download or play music (which I shouldn’t have to pay for again) in my home.

As others have mentioned, the store is pretty terrible (search works amazingly but that doesn’t help discoverability), having an unresponsive runs-at-10fps experience on that hardware is inexcusable! Also: Amazon may have patented one-click but that doesn’t mean I should have to execute 10+ button presses to buy and download a game.

Even better: redesign the whole ps4 menu UI to be more useable, eg: keep the order stable so I know where each of my downloaded games is and don’t have to hunt for where they’ve been moved to; a vertical list like ps3 so I can see more than 6 things at once – when you have 100+ downloaded games the current ps4 UI is going to be a nightmare! And/or allowing me to group things in folders or pages would be a massive help.

Also: please get rid of the crap that comes pre-installed which pollutes the main bar (eg playroom) – it reminds me of buying a laptop and having it loaded up with tons of garbage programs. At least let me hide/delete things that I will never use.

Finally: why do the controllers still not go to sleep automatically?! This was the one big thing I loved about 360 over ps3, I didn’t have to manually power the damn things off if I decided to step away for a break. Even worse, turning off a controller is now buried behind two extra layers of menus! It’s a bit insane: adjust devices>ds4>turn off… this is a very frequently used command which should be on the main page when you hold the ps button.

Sorry if this is a bit ranty… I just feel like the UI is bit of a step back from ps3 in some ways, which is frustrating.

As others have mentioned it is slim pickings right now. I would especially like to see some Japanese staples like JRPGs on the upcoming releases list, but seeing how late Japanese studios often are to the party, I don’t expect to be seeing things like that soon. PS4 version of the upcoming Tales of Zestiria would be awesome, but I know, unlikely.

Agree with all mentions of the cost of digital games at release (although I think I have heard this is to give retail shops a buffer period to remain relevant). Also Nthing the Vita memory card pricing issue. Maybe a PS Plus subscription could be bundled with them for free? I liked the idea behind the existing game bundles, I think that’s going in the right direction.

Digital download pricing is also ridiculous, on all sides. The first one who figures out that cheaper digital downloads will kick start a truly digital console generation will be a clear winner.

Patches. They are awful on PS, and across all consoles, why do I need to patch a new digital download? Save me time and effort, have my new download patched and ready to play immediately please.

Certainly, I’ve made more impulse buys on the WiiU store (which runs great, surfaces content with fewer interactions and plays catchy music) than I have on the PSN store, despite how little worthwhile content there is on it.

Let them know that Mozilla would almost certainly be happy to port Gecko (the Firefox rendering engine) to the PS4 🙂 (ftr, I work for Mozilla)

1. With the arrival of the Amazon and GAME Playstation Digital stores, what is the future roadmap for Sony with regards to competitive pricing on its digital games against 3rd party PSN stores?
2. I would like to ask if Sony are planning to return the weekend/week only deals to the EU PSN store?
3. Are there any future plans to continue with the PS3-PS4 trade up program as an incentive for potential PS4 customers this year?

Thank you

That, and better communication about the release of niche titles. There have been titles put out for the Vita without even a mention on the blog, or any kind of push whatsoever (the Atelier remakes). Also, 40€ for a digital Vita title is nuts.

And one more smaller thing, for those of you complaining about the quality of sales on PSN, you have not seen the Asia PSN sales. This is what we got for Christmas 2013 and Jan 2014 http://blog.asia.playstation.com/community/hk/en/playstation_network/playstation_store/blog/2013/12/24/festive-treats-from-ps-store-winter-holiday-offers-of-30-off

But hey, this is a much smaller thing than region locking all digital content (except for patches, funny enough) and missing games.

There are also some Nippon Ichi Software (NIS) PSP games in English that are missing from PSN Asia, while their Japanese versions can be found. I asked NISA to fix it, and I was told that SONY Asia was responsible for bringing their titles over. And I did inform SONY Asia about this, except I got only an automated reply that did nothing.
To clarify, on PSN Asia, Prinny 2: Dawn of Operation Panties, Dood! and Phantom Brave: The Hermuda Triangle (English version) does not exist (the full game), only the Japanese versions exist. On the other hand, Disgaea 2: Dark Hero Days has both English and Japanese version on PSN Asia, but only the Japanese version has DLC. So SONY, do something about this.

So please SONY, I love my PS3 and Vita, but getting shafting me because of my country is not doing you any favours.

P.S. I forgot to mention this for my previous post: saves are region locked (and presumably cross saves as well)

Fairly high prices from my understanding is perhaps of the up keep cost for keeping the servers running (disk is already there pre-load to reuse again and again) and probably because they can, i.e they take all profits whereas for retail there is a cut and bulk buying discounts.

“Ideally I would like to be able to throw in the PS3 disc and free stream it on the PS4. If I have to pay an extra sub (small) for this, that’s fine. We know the PS4 can see the PS3 discs as that’s how it’s doing its PS3>PS4 upgrade checking. I will be quite disappointed if I have to pay again for each game I already own.”

This is unlikely as PSNow is another service, same with digital which again is another service which will have their costs associated with it. As with digital, if you buy a physical copy you will not get the digital copy, same with ports of games between the consoles (with exception of the promotional upgrade to encourage sales due to new console release); thus highly unlikely you will get access to a game you already own on PSNow.

There are two things I would like to see:

> Fix that download list in PSN, I started getting alot of games from PS Plus and side digital purchases. It’s a nightmare going through that list to find a game to download.
> More games! The main reason I’m getting the console! I would like to see more localised goodness like niche games from Japan. Perhaps costs will be saved it just digital if worried about retail sales and costs, a game plus patch by sony’s own localisation studio is well acceptable in exchange for having access to a game that probably won’t see light and day here. Eg. Yakuza, Gundam and Macross 30 and SRW series. From what I’m aware they are adding japan language in form of patch with lip sync for new FFX-3 so entirely do-able.
> There is also issues with localisation and content, would love it to be universal which will save the headaches for many accounts like access to JPN demos, games, etc. There is also issue of some PSOne games available on NA but not here like Chrono Trigger, although wasn’t released in UK originally =p

The thing is, if I import a game, I can’t use the online pass, buy DLC or redeem any DLC that comes in the box, even if they exist on the store and are the same language version. This matters, as Asia is a smaller market with old games being often out of print. On the other hand, the region free games on the Xbox 360 have no such issues.

What this means is that I am actually actively discouraged from buying new. This is because if I buy used (from my region), at least then I can buy DLC and online passes that will work.

What I am saying is that this nonsensical region lock only hurts everyone, from Sony and devs not being able to sell DLC and players not being able play online, redeem DLC that they have already bought and buy DLC for games they love.

Yes, I do realise there is a workaround for the PS3, where you get multiple accounts and buy PSN cash cards. But that is just stupid, and there is no workaround for the Vita.

I understand that there are often licensing issues that prevent store parity (in terms of contend) between regions. However, region locking content that is available in all the regions in question is just stupidity and reeks of incompetence.

In short: if I buy a region free game on the 360 (from say the US or the EU) I can use their online pass, redemn any DLC that comes with it and buy DLC that is avaliable from Xbox Live in my country.

If I buy a “region free” game on the PS3/Vita that is not from my region, I am barred from playing online if it comes with an online pass, I cannot redeem DLC and I cannot buy DLC that will work with my copy even though it exist in PSN Asia.

Hopefully this mess can be cleared up as soon as possible.

It’s really hard to justify that when I can get the Steam version in most cases for €50 at launch – and that’s without shopping around.

And Vita memory cards. We need bigger and cheaper. I can’t get the most out of my vita, because a decent sized memory card is 3x the cost of a full retail game. Really stops me buying Vita games digitally.

They seriously need to sort out their actual search function which is inferior to the previous store, searching by 1 letter then popping all the way back up to the top again instead of an onscreen keyboard is far from being intuitive.

The same thing goes with their download management list of items owned on our accounts, why do we need to scroll through hundreds instead of having a search function built in to filter the results down? Trust me, these 2 things alone if improved/implemented would have a beneficial factor for consumers such as us, and in the long run, will be better for Sony too, profit and word wise.

But more relevant to the topic on hand…they need to fix the pricing on their store for new games, £55 for launch is an actual joke and is most of the time, one of the most expensive options when they can distribute as many digital licenses as they want to. No need for wasting plastic on discs and boxes, and paper for the manuals, that is just easily done digitally anyway and the price should reflect for something like Steam and other Digital outlets have.

Also, they seriously need to have more sales going on, I mean, that is what gets units moving. More sales will definitely provide better income in the long run, and this has been proven time and time again on some of the major digital outlets, of course, they need to do a mixture of reasonable and possibly crazy-type sales to experiment with their audience.

We know digital is literally going to be the majority of where we purchase our games/music/movies in the very near future wiping out most or all physical media, so the sooner they straighten out and streamline their digital store’s experience, the better. I know I’m not alone in thinking this, and I’m pretty sure most would agree.

Of course it’s relatively easy to import digital games from US PSN these days, but I generally prefer to support games released domestically when I can because Europe usually gets the shaft on Japanese games, so I import as a last resort (not usually related to price, but availability) because I think encouraging local distributors to take a risk on these games is generally a good idea.

I also think they should let us have multiple PSN accounts on our Vita. Some people like to change their online identity at some point or another, but are hamstrung because they don’t want to lose their portable games. Also, I want to import US-only games like Persona 2 Eternal Punishment.

Besides that, the usual gripes: digital/physical price parity (digital game prices should be sane), better — and more frequent/regular — sales, and hopefully a quick death to the £10 next-gen tax, because I don’t remember games in America going up from $60 to $70. It’s disgusting that £10 has been added to game RRP, just because they thought they could get away with it. It certainly makes me less likely to purchase a game until it’s crashed in price.