You know the reason for everything white is for dark mode right?
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A look at the new PlayStation Store website
- Thread starter Lant_War
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Never had problems with it, and on the PS3 I never bought a digital game so...😬
I can't get it to work... I think it will need to be remade, updated for it to work with this new store.
I don't see this happening anytime soon, with the PS5 main colour being White... everything is being tied to that theme, the PS Site, Game Box Banners, etc..., so for the Store to get a Dark Mode, the entire PlayStation site would need to have that option as well.
If the old store is a 5/10, this is a solid 2/10. It just looks so bland and lacking of features. Maybe the store on the console will be better.
Gross.Australian prices btw...
Guess i'll stick to physical for launch games and wait for sales.
I'm all for simplistic designs... I've unsubscribed to streaming services because they changed their layout from something simple and accessible... to something exotic looking and fancy, but ran worse...wasn't as smooth.
For example UFC's Fight Pass app..on mobile and on TV.
For example UFC's Fight Pass app..on mobile and on TV.
More screenshots by Toumari
A few more pictures...
Genre section:
Can directly download games you already own into the Library:
EA Access (and PS Now) show on thumbnails:
Game pages look like this when they don't have the full width artwork:
The bottom of the game pages has a bunch of info, but lacks info about file size. There's also currently no screenshots/videos on these pages.
Search pages look like this:
Full screen notice when you cannot buy products:
Game pages sometimes show 'Editions' at the bottom, but you cannot click on them to see what's different about each edition, so you literally have to go to Ubisoft's site to find out:
Genre section:
Can directly download games you already own into the Library:
EA Access (and PS Now) show on thumbnails:
Game pages look like this when they don't have the full width artwork:
The bottom of the game pages has a bunch of info, but lacks info about file size. There's also currently no screenshots/videos on these pages.
Search pages look like this:
Full screen notice when you cannot buy products:
Game pages sometimes show 'Editions' at the bottom, but you cannot click on them to see what's different about each edition, so you literally have to go to Ubisoft's site to find out:
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God damn that looks awful. I hope it doesn't look like this on the console itself. Where are the screen shots and videos? I really liked that feature on PS4. Being able to watch a trailer right on the store front was great.
We still don't know that though and I'm not holding my breath.
A fix on macOS is to disable cross site tracking prevention in Safari. Might work on iOS too.
I'm AU... supposedly some NZ and UK people have viewed it also... The default landing page is https://store.playstation.com/en-au/latest
(although Country code would need to change to what you normally see.)
Looks ok, but it kinda looks like the typical corporate product website... it kinda goes for that Apple style but isn't very responsive, which makes it feel like it was done in a CMS or something. But it's ok i guess.
Also all product pages should REALLY be tested with adblock/tracking block addons to make sure nothing breaks.
Also all product pages should REALLY be tested with adblock/tracking block addons to make sure nothing breaks.
Hope they allow us to purchase games through the app. I always get the "please use a web browser" thing, and Safari doesn't work either.
I've tried all the fixes I've seen, including that one, to no avail. I'll just stick with chrome until this is fixed. It's kind of insane in the year 2020 Sony has a borked storefront for mobile
It's starting to look better... But the search seems awful still. The Collections page should be the first to open.A few more pictures...
Genre section:
Can directly download games you already own into the Library:
EA Access (and PS Now) show on thumbnails:
Game pages look like this when they don't have the full width artwork:
The bottom of the game pages has a bunch of info, but lacks info about file size. There's also currently no screenshots/videos on these pages.
Search pages look like this:
Full screen notice when you cannot buy products:
Game pages sometimes show 'Editions' at the bottom, but you cannot click on them to see what's different about each edition, so you literally have to go to Ubisoft's site to find out:
This is DEF not known. So pretty much all captures can be 4KHDR
Is there any way to access the site on Windows? It seems the AU site always reverts back to my UK site. Even using a VPN for whatever reason.
I primarily use the web store since PSN app is pretty slow on PS4 (or at least it was until this recent update).
Pretty big downgrade on desktop. Feels very spaced out and big, and is just scaled up from the mobile viewport. I guess that's just modern web design though, probably justified by people accessing on tablets.
Main benefit seems to be one game page for titles, as opposed to separate pages for Deluxe Editions and Standard Editions.
Main benefit seems to be one game page for titles, as opposed to separate pages for Deluxe Editions and Standard Editions.
I don't get why wishlists are gone, that was a really useful feature to add everything I may want and then check every week if any are on sale
guess its a good reminder though to save out my wishlist to a PDF or something so I can refer to it in the future
guess its a good reminder though to save out my wishlist to a PDF or something so I can refer to it in the future
There still seems to be multiple pages for the different editions still - it's just that the other editions pages are linked from the standard editions pages. Issue being currently is that there is no descriptions offering what the differences are between the editions. It looks unfinished and i am sure will be soon but people thinking that things are going to drastically change like a Dark Mode/Wishlisting etc being left out of this initial build to be put in before PS5 launch i think are expecting that too soon. Small things will likely happen over the next week but this will effectively be the storefront when the PS5 launches.
Good to know! It is exciting that it offer high quality captures.
It feels a lot like it was designed to double for touch-based devices instead of something that works better for m/kb desktop users. Guess the apps are just going to run some kind of web view version of this?
The update mostly seems like something that removes a bunch of technical debt like the wishlist feature more so than streamlining PSN with new cool feature. At least it might actually allow me to buy games digitally without bugging out this time around.
I think the database backend is just a bit of a mess in general; I seem to vaguely recall games on the old PSN that would get release dates like "Jan 31", because the database only took date entries which meant you couldn't have "January" releases so they'd just use the last day of the month instead.
The update mostly seems like something that removes a bunch of technical debt like the wishlist feature more so than streamlining PSN with new cool feature. At least it might actually allow me to buy games digitally without bugging out this time around.
So after playing with the store for about an hour here's some feedback on the small chance someone from Sony is reading through this thread.
Issues that need to be resolved asap:
Issues that need to be resolved asap:
- Add titles below the thumbnails on the category view - Currently it's really hard to know what a game actually is without having to click on it. Also with DLC being mixed in you can accidentally click on the DLC rather than the game itself. This is even worst for accessibility as you cannot use ctrl + f to quickly find something on the page.
- Make it obvious what is DLC and what is a game - Currently the list views just show a mish-mash of games/DLC. They aren't sorted by games first and DLC last, it's all mixed together making it a guessing game on what is what.
- Show DLC of a game on their respective pages - You have to do a manual search to find DLC (and hope the name of the game is in its title) as it's not listed on the game page.
- Add filters on the category/search pages - It's impossible to sort & filter games by platform, price, release date, age rating, features (HDR/Multiplayer/PSVR support) so you basically have to go through everything to find what you are looking for. Adding a checkbox that prevents DLC from showing up would also be ideal. I imagine it would take forever for a parent to find cheap a game for their child that also has local co-op support.
- Show details about the different game editions - Game pages list different 'Editions' of games, but in a lot of cases it doesn't actually show what the differences are. Also these don't link to anything, so it's impossible for me to see what's different about the 'Gold' edition of Valhalla over the normal edition. I literally have to navigation away to the Ubisoft site to find out.
- No screenshots/gameplay videos on the game pages
- No download file-size listed on the game pages
- No wishlist support
- Can no longer add games/products to the cart from the list views
- Add a dark mode toggle and automatically use it for those who are using dark mode on our phones/desktop
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