1. No 1942?

   

   
   Comment by Ritchie — Jul 24, 2008 @ 1:36 pm

2. Blood curse is freakin’ huge. About 10gb of download.

   I reccomend you get the chapters seperatley, as you need to download all 10gb before you can start playing the £19.99 version.
   Which could take forever…

   
   Comment by Gladman — Jul 24, 2008 @ 1:39 pm

3. Don’t forget that if you get the chapters separatly, you’ll pay £7.97 more (for those in UK). So, I don’t think that will be a smart thing. Better try the demo 1st though…

   
   Comment by Ricardo — Jul 24, 2008 @ 1:45 pm

4. Four downloads at £6.99 each not only eats into your hard drive capacity, but also your wallet (at just under £28).

   I think I’ll wait for the “Siren: New Translation” Blu-ray disc to come from Asia.

   Pity, as I was looking forward to this game

   Digital downloads are the way forward if the UK had a broadband infrastructure to match (and larger capacity hard drives onboard as standard).

   BFN,

   fp.

   
   Comment by fanpages — Jul 24, 2008 @ 1:46 pm

5. …it would have made more sense to release “Siren: New Translation” in Japan as downloadable content as they the potential of larger hard drive consoles & much, much faster internet connection speeds, and release “Siren: Blood Curse” in the UK on Blu-ray.

   The US market will probably drive the decision to release the game outside Asia though… so Europe will probably see a disc-based edition in a year or more

   BFN,

   fp.

   
   Comment by fanpages — Jul 24, 2008 @ 1:50 pm

6. Siren Blood Curse yahoo iv been hyping about this since the demo came out over at the jap store but my birthday still no wipeout hd i am starting to think that it is not ever going to come out starting to think that SCE Studio Liverpool are never going to bring it and have just given up this is the reson ps3 gets nocked come on sort it out give my the fucking game give me some hope and fath that i have not wasted £425 on a console that has so much going for it but no one can be assed to pull it out the hat just give me home, wipeout, socom i will be happy

   
   Comment by headcasephil — Jul 24, 2008 @ 1:53 pm

7. I thought the chapters were supposed to be a fiver each?

   http://threespeech.com/blog/2008/07/siren-blood-curse-release-info/

   Got the full game anyway, not paying an extra £8 for no reason, just waiting for it to download lol

   
   Comment by Talvon — Jul 24, 2008 @ 1:55 pm

8. Nice update. I’m still not convinced on Siren’s camera controls but +1 to Sony this week. Let’s hope they can keep it up. Oh and SCEE please get some more PS1 games on quick smart. You keep giving people good content, they will give you money and everyone is happy.

   
   Comment by Matt — Jul 24, 2008 @ 1:58 pm

9. But 6.99£ is a great price for once compared to 14.99$ the US customers pay per episode bundle, 39.99$ for the whole set.

   And Echochrome demo, wow

   Now give us Elefunk demo too SCEE, pity please.

   
   Comment by kulmanister — Jul 24, 2008 @ 2:24 pm

10. €uro price per episode bundle seems to be 9,95€ ~ 7,80£. Whole game for 29,95€ ~ 23,6£ which can be explained by higher VAT here (22%) so I’m for once happy with the pricing

    
    Comment by kulmanister — Jul 24, 2008 @ 2:29 pm

11. @fanpages - can you send me an email please mate?

    Great update, it really is. I’m desperate to try out Siren for myself, but 9GB is way, way to much for my limited bandwidth allowance.

    
    Comment by Nofi — Jul 24, 2008 @ 2:33 pm

12. You can play each one of the twelve episodes as you download them, you don’t need three or twelve before you can start playing. Download the first, play it while the second downloads, play the second while the third downloads and so on.

    Installing each episode merges it into a single game file but inside the game’s episode menu you can delete any one of the 12 episodes to free up HDD space.

    After you’ve beaten a chapter I recommend checking the archives from the main menu to clue up on the backstory/characters. I’ve beaten the first two episodes so far and I’m loving it!

    
    Comment by Bert — Jul 24, 2008 @ 2:48 pm

13. Oh, incase I didn’t make it clear, buying the full game gives you 12 separate episode files to download so you needn’t worry about having the full 9GB of space free at once.

    
    Comment by Bert — Jul 24, 2008 @ 2:50 pm

14. So in a matter of 3 weeks the price per chapter has risen by £2.00 per chapter. Sony, you really must be mentally ill.
    As if this wasn’t bad enough you have released separate chapters and the full game at the same time, what on earth are you thinking about?
    You are in effect trying to financially penalise people for not having enough room on the inadequately sized hard drives you provided.
    In addition to all this almost every game on blu-ray is having to install partially to the hard drive because of coding issues and the slow rate of data transfer from the blu-ray drive.
    You honestly stumble from one PR disaster to the next.
    I could actually do a better job myself even knowing next to nothing about how to run a console games company, because I know how NOT to manage one. I would just do the opposite of you morons.
    Reduce all the downloadable games back to £3.49 immeadiately and also let us pay the exact amount in the store, not this minimum £5 top up rip off.
    GET IT SORTED AND GET IT SORTED NOW.

    
    Comment by Ton Capone — Jul 24, 2008 @ 2:57 pm

15. i’d like to know in europe we get the demos AFTER the games come out , while in US they get them BEFORE they come, eg in the US this weekend there is a pixel junk eden demo…

    
    Comment by exprohound — Jul 24, 2008 @ 3:04 pm

16. What happened to £4.99 each for the Siren: Blood Curse chapters? I was looking forward to getting chapter one tonight, but bumped up to £6.99, I’d rather get the full game but I can’t afford it at the moment. Dissappointed.

    
    Comment by Siôn Walter Mowbray — Jul 24, 2008 @ 3:20 pm

17. It’s not your bandwidth that’s the problem its Sony’s servers.

    I download at 24mbps but through my ps3 it’s barely a quarter of that.

    @Ton Capone

    i could not have said that better myself!!!

    
    Comment by manley — Jul 24, 2008 @ 3:23 pm

18. @ 10

    Boycott it mate until these total arses realise that we are not to be trifled with and drop the prices back to the original £3.49 that everything used to be.
    They must also remove the requirement to top up by at least £5. The exact amount should only be charged to your card, this minimum top up is making SCEE intersest on YOUR MONEY and they are not even trying to hide it, they are doing in front of our faces.
    Why not just spit in my face SCEE, it would honestly be less insulting.

    
    Comment by Ton Capone — Jul 24, 2008 @ 3:25 pm

19. Proof that SCEE have f****d up their PSN pricing structure!

    It all goes back to the simple fact that they did this greedy and economically unnecessary rate change:
    £3.49 titles became £4.99 (eg Elefunk)
    £4.99 titles became £6.99 (eg Echochrome)

    This has a horrible decision by Sony, and it has really tarnished the appeal of the PSN Store for me (and probably others) - before they were more or less inline with US pricing, taking into account the VAT we pay of course, which is how DIGITAL distribution should be. However they’ve now decided to adopt Microsoft’s make believe exchange rate system - NEWS FLASH SCEE when you don’t charge in points rip off pricing stands out and slaps your customers in the face!

    Siren: Blood Curse shines a big bright spotlight on this misguided policy - you may not notice for the odd title (I still bought Elefunk at a fiver), but when you start paying £8 more to download a game in 4 parts you start to realise that SCEE think they can contribute nothing to the European store other than price hikes!

    I suppose the only saving grace is that they’ve decided not to make £19.99 games like the complete Siren and Warhawk £30 games instead!!!

    I hope SCEE realise how descructive this decision is and reverse it quickly, otherwise they are going to completely kill an already dying PSN Store.

    I’ve already asked ThreeSpeech to question SCEE on this directly when I saw Elefunk was $4.99 vs £4.99, but naturally my request has been ignored (it’s hard to justify unjustifiable price increases!) - but if this Siren update doesn’t show how flawed the new pricing system is nothing will!

    It’s times like this I wish I lived in America…

    I’m normally quite tolerant when it comes to most things, you don’t often catch me whinging about delays or lost exclusives etc, but this really bugs me. I loved the price parity of the PSN Store when it launched in the UK, and for me it was one of the biggest selling points - good quality games at a fair price - they still have the quality but they no longer have the fair price!

    Maybe we should start a petition! lol

    It’s already cost them though - I didn’t buy Echochrome at £6.99, but I honestly probably would have taken a punt at £4.99 - and I’ve heard a lot of people say the same thing. Sometimes increasing your prices can actually reduce your revenue…

    
    Comment by Apnomis — Jul 24, 2008 @ 3:25 pm

20. Apparently there’s a Pixeljunk Eden demo available on the US store today. So I think I’ll be logging in to the US store rather than the EU one for my updates.

    
    Comment by reakt — Jul 24, 2008 @ 3:26 pm

21. My message above is to 15 Siôn Walter Mowbray .
    Sorry but the “blog” played up and moved all the numbers.

    
    Comment by Ton Capone — Jul 24, 2008 @ 3:27 pm

22. @19 reakt

    A demo for a game is often a handful of levels, a partial clip of the complete game. So if the complete game is, lets say, 150mb then the demo should roll around less than 50 mb. How long do you think it would take to send a demo from SCEA to SCEE over a standard broadband connection? Less than 30 minutes.

    A US region demo runs perfectly fine on a PAL console, sharing demos would allow a wider audiance to experience the game and form an opinion, and quite likely drive up interest.

    So if it doesn’t take long to transfer a demo, the demo doesn’t need to be recoded to work on a different regions console, why isn’t the Pixeljunk Eden demo available on the PAL PSN store?

    
    Comment by The-Unknown — Jul 24, 2008 @ 4:02 pm

23. Sony Computer Entertainment Europe
    David_Reeves@scee.net
    Tel: +44 20 7859 5300

    for all those that missed the last time I posted it…

    
    Comment by Mr. Monkey — Jul 24, 2008 @ 4:04 pm

24. For once it seems like we’re not being scammed - £19.99 for Siren when it’s $39.99 for the full game in the US? Do you reckon Sony can keep this up?

    
    Comment by duff_weird — Jul 24, 2008 @ 4:59 pm

25. @Fanpages make sure you get the Asian version not Japanese, only the Asian has English on…

    I got with soundtrack £27 ebay

    
    Comment by Mr. Monkey — Jul 24, 2008 @ 5:50 pm

26. @ fanpages - ” Digital downloads are the way forward ”

    yeah, something with no resell value and no manuals or other ‘feelies’ is hardly the way forwards, plus loosing it if your harddrive crashes!. given the choice i will ALWAYS go for a hard copy of a game, that way, at least if it’s pants i can get some money back on it. or if it’s good i can hold the box, check out the artwork, put my coffee mug on it etc etc..

    the only thing ps3 digital downloads are good for are SONY’s bank account. and thats the reason we in SCEE land don’t get any retro PS1 games to download either, SONY don’t make enough money on each title to make it worth their trouble.

    IT’S ALL ABOUT THE MONEY NOW!!

    
    Comment by mobiletone — Jul 24, 2008 @ 6:02 pm

27. GREAT WORK SONY, AWSOME GAME!!
    Its great to see a game that wouldnt sell enough to justify a blu-ray release being put on the store for all to enjoy, AND at half the price of a standard game.
    TO ALL HATERS, just dont buy the game!!!!!!
    You cant blame sony for a small HDD, you got what you paid for and its simple to upgrade if you want to.

    However, sort out the download speed sony, people wont give you money if it takes them days to get the product.

    DONE

    
    Comment by Mr_Sok — Jul 24, 2008 @ 6:30 pm

28. waiting for the US store.
    cause seeing last week price-emberassment from SCEE (4.99$ equals 7.99 euro according to them)

    i only buy the games from the US store (where 4.99$ equals 3 euro)

    
    Comment by terrortime — Jul 24, 2008 @ 6:58 pm

29. @9

    .. Elefunk came out last week!

    Keep up! :p

    
    Comment by Ricky — Jul 24, 2008 @ 9:11 pm

30. US Store this week.

    (First one to moan about pricing wins an Internet)

    [ http://blog.us.playstation.com/2008/07/24/playstation-store-update-44/ ]
    —
    Jul 24 PlayStation Store Update
    + Posted by Grace Chen // Senior Manager, PLAYSTATION Store

    PS3 Store Sale

    Summer 08 Game Sale
    For one week, the following titles will be offered for $4.99 (regularly priced at $9.99)

    * PAIN
    * PixelJunk Monsters
    * High Velocity Bowling
    * High Stakes on the Vegas Strip: Poker Edition
    * Rocketmen: Axis of Evil

    * Downloadable Games

    Siren: Blood Curse (3 bundles of 4 episodes @ $14.99/ea & full game SKU for $39.99)
    File sizes: Episodes 1 - 12 (8.91 GB), Episodes 1 - 4 (2.95 GB), Episodes 5 - 8 (2.79 GB), Episodes 9 -12 (3.16 GB)

    1942: Joint Strike ($9.99)

    * Add-on Game Content

    Guitar Hero III: Guitar Virtuoso Pack ($6.25)

    * Rock Band Add-ons
    Build your Rock Band library by purchasing these song game tracks. For song credits, visit http://www.RockBand.com.

    + Devour - Shinedown ($1.99)
    + Junkies for Fame - Shinedown ($1.99)
    + Nine Inch Nails Track Pack 02 ($5.49 includes songs below or songs available individually)
    o Last - Nine Inch Nails ($1.99)
    o Burn - Nine Inch Nails ($1.99)
    o Capital G - Nine Inch Nails ($1.99)

    * Game Demos (free)

    PixelJunk Eden Demo

    * Game Videos (free)

    PixelJunk Eden Trailer
    Street Fighter IV: E3 2008 Gameplay Trailer
    Street Fighter IV: PS3 Special Trailer
    Bionic Commando Rearmed The Making of Part 1

    * PS3 Themes (free)

    Street Fighter IV Summer 08 PS3 Theme
    Siren: Blood Curse PS3 Theme

    * PS3 Wallpaper (free)

    Killzone 2 Wallpapers (2 for PS3 & 2 for PSP)
    PixelJunk Eden Wallpaper
    Fracture Wallpapers (x4)
    Siren Wallpapers (x5)

    Here is this week’s content release for the PLAYSTATION Store for PC. To download these games to your PSP, navigate to http://store.playstation.com. There, you’ll find descriptions of the content and directions on how to get started. For more on the PLAYSTATION Store for PC, please click here.
    Games

    Parappa the Rapper ($22.99)

    * Game Trailers

    Parappa the Rapper Trailer (Free)

    * Wallpaper

    Killzone 2 Wallpapers (x2 for PSP) (Free)
    Parappa the Rapper Wallpapers (x4) (Free)
    —

    BFN,

    fp.

    
    Comment by fanpages — Jul 24, 2008 @ 10:28 pm

31. It looks like it’s out everywhere except Australia.

    
    Comment by FeloniousTub — Jul 25, 2008 @ 12:48 am

32. “IT’S ALL ABOUT THE MONEY NOW!!”

    Er… yeah… Sony are in the business of making money, they don’t just do it for the fun of it.

    
    Comment by John — Jul 25, 2008 @ 7:36 am

33. Eden demo (US store) is great!

    
    Comment by reakt — Jul 25, 2008 @ 8:06 am

34. See news here about why Wipeout HD might still not be released: http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/07/wipeout-hd-fail.html

    
    Comment by Robothamster — Jul 25, 2008 @ 8:14 am

35. I have a simple question - how is it that the US PSN store can have a ’summer sale’ on several games, all of which are already available on the EU PSN shop, yet the EU doesn’t get the same ’sale’? What exactly is stopping this happening?

    Other than the obvious, often quoted, reason.

    
    Comment by Jon — Jul 25, 2008 @ 8:19 am

36. @33

    Crying out loud why dont they just put an epilepsy warning on it and release it. dont get me wrong I’m not targeting people here but its ones brush for all isnt it.

    
    Comment by Terry — Jul 25, 2008 @ 8:29 am

37. @35 [Jon]: The UK/European Summer doesn’t start until September, obviously!

    @36 [Terry]: I have to agree… in fact, I’m coming ’round to looking forward to this title given the screen images I have seen in the last few weeks (even though I didn’t like the earlier version, and even though I don’t have a HD-TV). However, if one person has a seizure & dies as a result of not being able to read a warning printed on the box, in the manual, and on the screen prior to playing, then the development team (SCE Studio Liverpool), &/or the publisher (SCEE) will not want the resulting legal action (that will invariably be filed due to the ‘compensation culture’ we all now find ourselves in).

    Remember the fuss with “Manhunt 2″? No worse than any other title of the same nature, but because a handful of people are likely to find it offensive (or somebody finds it offensive on behalf of others, as seems to be the case these days), the title hasn’t had a full release worldwide yet.

    Everybody plays it safe just in case, and it is imposing delays with re-development. A point of relevance here is the change in game characters in “Resident Evil 5″ where the development team dared to include native Africans… in Africa [shock... horror (but isn’t that the point of this game?) ;)]!

    Re-development will then lead to further delays in re-submission for classification to the regional video standards agencies, too.

    Perhaps “WipEout HD” could be released now will a disclaimer than needs to be agreed/signed before the game-play can begin.

    However, Sony Studio Liverpool (previously Psygnosis) has not been sat around doing nothing in the meantime…

    [ http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2008/07/24/wipeout-hd-delay-means-more-tracks-ships-and-trophies/ ]
    —
    …They’ve taken this time to add a number of new features to WipEout HD, most exciting of which must be Trophies. A SCEE representative told TVG [ totalvideogames.com/news/Wipeout_HD_Delay_-_Official_Response_13555_6787_0.htm ]that the delay has added “8 reverse tracks, 4 extra ships, 2 alternative HUDS, 2 Player offline split screen and XMB Trophy support.”
    —

    BFN,

    fp.

    
    Comment by fanpages — Jul 25, 2008 @ 9:28 am

38. I thing the pricing cannot be fixed. Just understand that if you live in EU and you have 1000 Euros you can have almost the same quality life as if you live in US and you have 1000$. If they turn the table and change the US store apwards to mach the EU then Americans are going to have to expensive games. Also If they mach EU to US store EU are going to have too cheap games. It ’s just right with my logic. They don’t have to change anything.
    Also consider that if you buy from the US store don’t expect improvement to the EU store as all your money goes to US and EU stay poor.
    With the exchange of $ you can go to Ebay and find cheap BluRay games .
    I just thing that the pricing it’s right…

    
    Comment by haramanai — Jul 25, 2008 @ 9:45 am

39. @37

    I would just put a discplaimer on all games saying “This game may also cause entertainment”…

    
    Comment by Terry — Jul 25, 2008 @ 10:03 am

40. The stores are run by separate store teams, hence the sale in the US and not the UK - it’s not because SCEE hate Europe as a lot of the moaners seem to think.

    Also regarding wallet top-ups, if you scroll down the list of payment amounts you’ll find you can only pay the difference of what you have in the wallet and what the content you are buying is, therefore you do NOT need to top-up with a minumum of £5. I wish people would find out the facts before posting crap!

    
    Comment by mikeck — Jul 25, 2008 @ 10:26 am

41. @40
    Really? I always thought there was a minimum of £5 top up too, at least it used to be like that. Hope you’re right as the amount of times I’ve wanted to buy something but not bothered as I needed to add about 50p in my wallet but couldn’t has been loads, well not loads but maybe 3 or 4 times!

    
    Comment by Robothamster — Jul 25, 2008 @ 11:19 am

42. PS.
    The European Updates are constantly moaned about, but over the past few weeks Japan seems to have got the (Loser the) Pooh end of the stick, certainly in terms of quantity…

    [ http://play-beyond.net/2008/07/25/playstation-network-update-jul-25/ ]
    —
    (for JP PSN)

    Initial D EXTREME STAGE Additional Car Data (free)
    TUROK Additional Maps
    Minna No Golf 5 Costume Set Volume 3
    Infinite Loop demo (free)
    Street Fighter IV promotion video (free)
    Street Fighter IV theme (free)
    Street Fighter IV wallpaper (free)
    Mainichi Issho July update (free)
    —

    How is everybody with Hong Kong & Australasian PlayStation Network accounts finding their respective Store content (updates)?

    BFN,

    fp.

    
    Comment by fanpages — Jul 25, 2008 @ 11:29 am

43. @26 [mobiletone]:
    Re: ” Digital downloads are the way forward ”

    Oh yes, I totally agree… money (or, wealth as such) is the driving force in any economy & will be the paramount priority in Sony’s overall plan to recoup costs on the research, development, and production of the PS3 console & Blu-ray technology to date. They made no attempts to hide the fact that they were losing money on each & every console sold in the first 12 months (at least), and claimed that the removal of the (PS2) “Emotion” chip from the UK/European machines was to cut costs.

    The sale of 150 million consoles would then go towards funding the next generation of the console.

    With reference to not actually owning a digital download in a physical form you can always re-download a ‘Store purchase (up to five times) so after a hard drive crash you can recover your previous items (but presumably not by just logging into the ‘Store via somebody else’s console to share your purchases with four others… I haven’t tried this, btw!).

    I hope the ability to download/install games to external hard drives is implemented in later firmware releases, but I appreciate that security needs to be implemented so that that drive is then not just shared ‘round a group of people. At present media can be directly downloaded to external drives (but not in “the background”), whereas games can only be downloaded to the on-board hard drive. In the event of a hardware failure of the internal drive I would have to spend many, many hours (if not days) re-downloading content (from more than one regional ‘Store). The ability to spread downloadable game content to different hard drives would lessen the risk of failure of one device.

    That said, I (also) favour having the physical assets rather than digital ones, although the cost & file size of “Siren: Blood Curse” was more of a deciding factor in purchasing the Asian (Hong Kong) Blu-ray edition from an eBay seller last night, but in any respect the ‘Store (and hence Sony) didn’t get my payment yesterday.

    Any PS1 titles I am/was ever likely to want to play I already own, so I don’t think I will ever download any (even if they were free!), but I acknowledge that others may have interest in this area especially if they wish to transfer to a handheld console (with, or without, custom firmware). PS2 titles the same, come to think of it. There are over 100 PS2 titles planned for the next year, but nothing that I cannot get on the PS3 (or Wii). Any limited edition/collector’s edition titles I will buy because of their status to add to my personal collection, but I will probably never play them (on the PS2 format).

    There does seem to be a disparity between the individual Stores, not only in content availability (not necessarily due to copyright/trademark/legal clearance procedures & video game ratings submissions), but also in pricing policies.

    If the territory Stores were not administrated locally, but maintained on a central server, I would perhaps suggest that every region will be charged the same numeric figures (e.g. 4.99) regardless of currency sign (USD, GBP, EUR, JPY, etc) so that just one set of graphic assets needs to be created.

    However, as this is (or does not seem to be) the case I wonder if the pricing of GBP 4.99 & above (rather than GBP 3.49) has been adopted because of the ‘interchange’ fee being charged by credit card providers or the banks issuing the credit card accounts for the provision of handling the transactions.

    Just a thought.

    Here’s some more…

    [ http://www.1upgamers.com/virtually-physical/ ]

    BFN,

    fp.

    
    Comment by fanpages — Jul 25, 2008 @ 1:52 pm

44. @Fanpages

    You could always backup your PS3 HDD to an external Hard-Drive, I do, so when I updated my 60gig to a 250gig unit, I could just restore the back-up image and I didn’t have to download anything. It saves me from having to worry (so much) about a HDD failure.

    
    Comment by Demibeard — Jul 25, 2008 @ 6:56 pm

45. @ above - i do that now, but not everyone has an external, i know i didn’t before i upgraded, never had a need of one. and having to re-download/install/search stores again was a total pain. plus it eats into your bandwidth account and what happens if you reach your 5 download limit? even if for genuine reasons? i’ve had to reset my ps3 4 times i guess since owning it over these last 18months due to crashes/linux etc.

    i think i was trying to say (apart from those silly little games) that a digital download is not as nice to own as a physical disc. and once purchased that’s it for your money, whereas is you own the disc you can take it around friends to play, file it on a shelf to look at, and trade it in when tired of it and get some credits back.

    “fee being charged by credit card providers or the banks issuing the credit card accounts for the provision of handling the transactions”

    the banks charge me about 3% to process CC/DD card transactions of customers, so for each 4.99 game you’re only looking at pence per purchase to process the data. not the price hike sony lays on it’s customers.

    i’m not happy about the recent changes regards sony policy, 4.99 is a break point as far as downloadable content. i can see them loosing more sales, then what? sony jack the prices again?

    OF COURSE THEY’RE IN IT TO MAKE MONEY.

    but that doesn’t mean that now they have a nice installed user base they can take the pi55! PS1 titles being an example, sure they don’t make much money on each title, but it’s good for the customer and public relations. some money is better than no money and they would be rewarded with happy content consumers, and as we know happy consumers buy more product!!

    scee seems to go out of it’s way to annoy it’s customers.

    
    Comment by mobiletone — Jul 26, 2008 @ 8:38 am

46. ps: Eden demo lived up to expectations.. lame.

    
    Comment by mobiletone — Jul 26, 2008 @ 8:40 am

47. I’m finding Siren a lot of fun. Definitely recommend getting all the chapters in one bundle for £20, you can download the episodes in 12 parts and delete/redownload completed episodes; so if you’re limited on disk space/bandwidth it’s not a problem. Although I don’t find it particularly scary (so far that is. I’ve just finished episode 3), it is gripping and fun to play.

    
    Comment by cr8ck3r5 — Jul 26, 2008 @ 11:08 am

48. Further to my previous post - re:awesomeness of Eden demo - I wrote a very brief review here: http://www.crookedconsole.com/2008/07/eden-demo-impression.html

    
    Comment by reakt — Jul 26, 2008 @ 3:31 pm

49. After some thinking about it, I downloaded the full Siren game. Haven’t played it yet, but I’m looking forward to it later. Also got the Eden demo from the US store and really liked it. However, SCEE should know I’m not interested in this game at £7, I’m not going to pay more for anything than I think it is worth. That’s the reason I went from being keen on Echochrome to not getting it. I know I’m just one man, but I’d rather read a book and not feel robbed than pay £7 for a short game.

    
    Comment by thefamouskevin — Jul 27, 2008 @ 4:39 pm

50. @44 [Demibeard]:

    I did backup my hard drive prior to installing Firmware release 2.41 (given the issues with the earlier 2.40 version). I haven’t tried to restore the contents, so I’m not sure if this would be the case or not, but do you know if you can selectively restore one title, or one (saved game) file, or do you have to restore the entire image?

    @45 [mobiletone]:

    I’m sure “SCEE” have a game-plan with regards revenue & the local market forces; it just seems to not be clear & consistent with the other territories.

    I’m certainly in agreement with you regarding the pricing policy. If they wish to alienate owners in Europe/the UK so that they feel the need to go to the US, or Japan, or any other region, then they are certainly achieving their goals.

    That said, however, there are pros & cons to having one large worldwide distribution model/global PlayStation Store. The obvious benefit is that we all have the same content available (regardless of suitability/relevance… I’m not that keen on seeing American Football & Baseball titles, for instance), but we would all have issues with connectively if the global servers had failed.

    Equally, the US would get narked that they had to wait for legal clearance in all regions with regards sanctioning content for distribution & waiting for video games ratings agencies to approve releases, but (demo versions of) titles developed in one particular region (e.g. “Siren: New Translation”, or “Gran Turismo”) would then be available globally far quicker than we are currently seeing.

    As for card payment commissions, some retailers are charged up to 8 or 9%, but yes, there is still a long way between £4.99 & £6.99.

    That said, I wouldn’t buy “echoChrome” or “PixelJunk Eden” even if they were £2.99.

    “Elefunk” was probably priced just about right.

    “PixelJunk Monsters” & “Pain” were very cheap for the hours of enjoyment I have gained.

    “Tekken 5 Dark Resurrection” started off at an introductory offer price for a pre-defined period. Perhaps this pricing model should be adopted more frequently?

    BFN,

    fp.

    
    Comment by fanpages — Jul 28, 2008 @ 12:36 pm

51. Sony - put the price on the small games back to £4.99.

    For a fiver, I don’t care if it’s not my cup of tea, but £6.99 for echocrome? Really?

    Come on………

    STOP FUCKING US OVER SCEE

    
    Comment by Mike — Jul 29, 2008 @ 4:16 am

52. My Siren import has arrived, 5 gig mandatory install (installing now)
    The manual and back of the box is in Chinese, but there is a fold-out sheet with the controls in English

    I also got the soundtrack going to listen to it tonight
    £27 well spent…

    
    Comment by Mr. Monkey — Jul 29, 2008 @ 10:26 am

53. ….also you can’t seem to choose episodes on the BR
    they are greyed-out

    & if you turn captions off, it will still show Japanese dialogue with subs (bonus)

    
    Comment by Mr. Monkey — Jul 29, 2008 @ 10:48 am

54. when.. when!!!! when can i be able to download Symphony of The Night from the Swedish store….. im not writing eu shop cos there aint no such thing… and while im on the subject… it’s a fucking disgrace that when i buy addons for Buzz from the store theyre all in fucking swedish and i cant access them when my systemlanguage is english. Online play suddenly became Neighbourhood play… that’s so funny in fact i stopped playing buzz ps3… i will not accept this shit treatment (thats what it is!) any longer.. fuck borders, fuck language barriers.. if i want to play in english, no matter where i am, i should be able to.. THAT’S HD, THAT IS NEXT GEN!. what i am going through now is the death of my videogame interest.. the death of my sonysupport.. (i’m not waiting ’til next-next-gen.)

    
    Comment by mikko — Jul 29, 2008 @ 6:00 pm

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