Lack of PSN Update sparking over-reactions?

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#1 Gambitcrawfish
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I know people are being a bit silly saying Sony is slapping them in the face and that this PSN is an insult to everyone who bought a Go.

But really, is there any reason that a game like Dissidia shoudn't have been on the store for this update? You have to admit, Sony dropped the ball big-time this week. I mean, really, who at Sony can honestly say it was a good idea to follow-up a lackluster 100/250(originally planned digitalgames) with 2 new downloads?

"So yeah, I have this GREAT idea guys. We launch the Go with 100 titles...then the next week after the successful launch...we give them...nothing. How does that sound?"

Pretty lame, actually.

Edit: Also, Square Enix (or any other company)has nothing to do with digital distribution. As the games are already on PSP, it's Sony's proprietary responsibility to make the games translation to digital and post in to the PSN. Unless a company has decided to revoke all distribution of a game, disc or digital, that is. This is more or less exactly what happened with PSN games like Trine.

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I'm really happy with what's available right now. I think there is a lot of overreacting going on. I know people think Sony has nothing ele to do other then make you personally happy all the time. But the truth is Sony has the U.S. and European market to manage, so their focus has to be here and there at different times. They have to rip games and convert them. They have to hold meetings and make decisions on what games hold what priorites. In short, they have a business to run, and Sony is doing what they can. You think Sony doesn't want to make more money!? I think the PSPgo launched with great titles. This is just one weekend. Calm down, play what you have, and wait to see what comes out in the near future, instead of throwing a tantrum about every little thing you think Sony can do to make your personal life better.

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I'm really happy with what's available right now. I think there is a lot of overreacting going on. I know people think Sony has nothing ele to do other then make you personally happy all the time. But the truth is Sony has the U.S. and European market to manage, so their focus has to be here and there at different times. They have to rip games and convert them. They have to hold meetings and make decisions on what games hold what priorites. In short, they have a business to run, and Sony is doing what they can. You think Sony doesn't want to make more money!? I think the PSPgo launched with great titles. This is just one weekend. Calm down, play what you have, and wait to see what comes out in the near future, instead of throwing a tantrum about every little thing you think Sony can do to make your personal life better.

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...I thought Sony was branched. Theirs a Sony of the US, Sony of Euope, etc., so how does that really matter in making them 'spread thin' because, really, if they are, Sony needs to up the ante because that's not very good business. And what do you mean it's not their job to make us happy? I thought Sony was in the business of "entertainment" hence making us entertained. With all that said though, I'm not exactly furious that their is no real update this week. I mean they did do pretty well in bringing alot of great titles at launch, so catching their bearing can be understandable. Though if they keep this up and just show they don't care to add more things to the store, then yeah somethings not right and just shows Sony can be rather lazy at doing their job.

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#4 Animorganimate
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[QUOTE="Animorganimate"]

I'm really happy with what's available right now. I think there is a lot of overreacting going on. I know people think Sony has nothing ele to do other then make you personally happy all the time. But the truth is Sony has the U.S. and European market to manage, so their focus has to be here and there at different times. They have to rip games and convert them. They have to hold meetings and make decisions on what games hold what priorites. In short, they have a business to run, and Sony is doing what they can. You think Sony doesn't want to make more money!? I think the PSPgo launched with great titles. This is just one weekend. Calm down, play what you have, and wait to see what comes out in the near future, instead of throwing a tantrum about every little thing you think Sony can do to make your personal life better.

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...I thought Sony was branched. Theirs a Sony of the US, Sony of Euope, etc., so how does that really matter in making them 'spread thin' because, really, if they are, Sony needs to up the ante because that's not very good business. And what do you mean it's not their job to make us happy? I thought Sony was in the business of "entertainment" hence making us entertained. With all that said though, I'm not exactly furious that their is no real update this week. I mean they did do pretty well in bringing alot of great titles at launch, so catching their bearing can be understandable. Though if they keep this up and just show they don't care to add more things to the store, then yeah somethings not right and just shows Sony can be rather lazy at doing their job.

I agree with what you're saying. And you're right, there are different branches. But the same games are involved and some communication is necessary between the two branches, and that could take time. Also, of course Sony wants us happy. What I meant was that some people have very personal complaints, and sometimes don't realize they are part of a mass of people. Sony can't make everyone happy all the time, and people should understand this. Again, I agree with what you're saying, and I think you expressed it better then me. I guess I'm just tired of reading nothing but complaints, when it's obvious Sony is at least trying to give us a great product and network to best utilize said product.
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people always want to complain....so let the oh well...the only thing i wish they had was GTA, MGS and FF games on there

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[QUOTE="FallofAthens"]

[QUOTE="Animorganimate"]

I'm really happy with what's available right now. I think there is a lot of overreacting going on. I know people think Sony has nothing ele to do other then make you personally happy all the time. But the truth is Sony has the U.S. and European market to manage, so their focus has to be here and there at different times. They have to rip games and convert them. They have to hold meetings and make decisions on what games hold what priorites. In short, they have a business to run, and Sony is doing what they can. You think Sony doesn't want to make more money!? I think the PSPgo launched with great titles. This is just one weekend. Calm down, play what you have, and wait to see what comes out in the near future, instead of throwing a tantrum about every little thing you think Sony can do to make your personal life better.

Animorganimate

...I thought Sony was branched. Theirs a Sony of the US, Sony of Euope, etc., so how does that really matter in making them 'spread thin' because, really, if they are, Sony needs to up the ante because that's not very good business. And what do you mean it's not their job to make us happy? I thought Sony was in the business of "entertainment" hence making us entertained. With all that said though, I'm not exactly furious that their is no real update this week. I mean they did do pretty well in bringing alot of great titles at launch, so catching their bearing can be understandable. Though if they keep this up and just show they don't care to add more things to the store, then yeah somethings not right and just shows Sony can be rather lazy at doing their job.

I agree with what you're saying. And you're right, there are different branches. But the same games are involved and some communication is necessary between the two branches, and that could take time. Also, of course Sony wants us happy. What I meant was that some people have very personal complaints, and sometimes don't realize they are part of a mass of people. Sony can't make everyone happy all the time, and people should understand this. Again, I agree with what you're saying, and I think you expressed it better then me. I guess I'm just tired of reading nothing but complaints, when it's obvious Sony is at least trying to give us a great product and network to best utilize said product.

I apologize if I sounded rather aggressive in my reply, after reading over it after posting what was said, I felt it was a bit out of tone. But I see your point about the communication between different branches of Sony. I just figured though that they would have all this streamlined ahead of time-- not wait till the last minute to get everything ready; note i'm not exactly saying that's the case. I agree though, I don't see why a lot of people are whining drasically about this, it's one bad week of an update to what I feel was a great start. Give it a few more weeks and if nothing changes in this pattern keeps going, then I feel their is something worth griping about.

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people always want to complain....so let the oh well...the only thing i wish they had was GTA, MGS and FF games on there

Eazy1891

yeah and it should be up soon. I just feel really disappointed. I was hoping for one or two huge game updates

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People have a right to complain about a company that doesn't hold it's promise. :) Yes, it's a business, and really it doesn't take a week to make a business decision and to 'rip and convert games'.

I'm really happy with what's available right now. I think there is a lot of overreacting going on. I know people think Sony has nothing ele to do other then make you personally happy all the time. But the truth is Sony has the U.S. and European market to manage, so their focus has to be here and there at different times. They have to rip games and convert them. They have to hold meetings and make decisions on what games hold what priorites. In short, they have a business to run, and Sony is doing what they can. You think Sony doesn't want to make more money!? I think the PSPgo launched with great titles. This is just one weekend. Calm down, play what you have, and wait to see what comes out in the near future, instead of throwing a tantrum about every little thing you think Sony can do to make your personal life better.

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I'm really happy with what's available right now. I think there is a lot of overreacting going on. I know people think Sony has nothing ele to do other then make you personally happy all the time. But the truth is Sony has the U.S. and European market to manage, so their focus has to be here and there at different times. They have to rip games and convert them. They have to hold meetings and make decisions on what games hold what priorites. In short, they have a business to run, and Sony is doing what they can. You think Sony doesn't want to make more money!? I think the PSPgo launched with great titles. This is just one weekend. Calm down, play what you have, and wait to see what comes out in the near future, instead of throwing a tantrum about every little thing you think Sony can do to make your personal life better.

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I'm not arguing Sony's "intention to make customers happy", which while we're on the topic, to those that know anything about Sony, know that's just a complete marketing lie. Company of Disappointments really. They are NOTORIOUS for having great ideas and abandoning them almost 100% when the sales don't match what they over-expect, even if the product is phenomenal. Go on, ask them how Vanguard: Saga of Heroes is doing. In fact, if you generally want your MMO to fail, all you have to do is have Sony publish and market it. Not the point. I know it's a rant, but whatever. The point is, you, nor anyone else can tell me the decision to follow up the launch of a phenomenal system with next to nothing of current PSP titles was a good decision. Go hopeful buyers already have two huge reasons to be disappointed: lack of promised PSN catalogue and the decision to abandon current PSP users by making UMD games non-transferrable. In my opinion, Sony should be everything possible to try to make the PSP Go post-launch a huge success in a lackluster gaming market. "Meets expectations." is not a goal a company should strive for (as they commented about PSP Go sales). Honestly, I can wait for things to come out. I'm not being impatient. I'm being realistic and a frustrated consumer who knows that we deserved more than what we got. The PSP Go has a lot going for it. It also has a lot going against it, which, to any realistic buyer in the hand-held market, would make the PSP Go seem far from a good buy. And that's what Sony should be focusing on. Nurturing their "new baby" with some kickass updates and giving buyers some real incentive. 2 games is not a continuing incentive. It's a laughable try though.
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I wouldn't call it over-reacting, I would call being realistic:

Sony has messed up opportunity after opportunity after opportunity when it comes to PSN.

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I'm really happy with what's available right now. I think there is a lot of overreacting going on. I know people think Sony has nothing ele to do other then make you personally happy all the time. But the truth is Sony has the U.S. and European market to manage, so their focus has to be here and there at different times. They have to rip games and convert them. They have to hold meetings and make decisions on what games hold what priorites. In short, they have a business to run, and Sony is doing what they can. You think Sony doesn't want to make more money!? I think the PSPgo launched with great titles. This is just one weekend. Calm down, play what you have, and wait to see what comes out in the near future, instead of throwing a tantrum about every little thing you think Sony can do to make your personal life better.

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The thing is, Sony only gets to exist because they please us, the costumers, all the time. Sony is a developer and publisher of high end luxury unnecessary products. If they continue to disappoint their userbase we will eventually go somewhere else and Sony will cease to exist because it has no reason to exist anymore :)

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We shouldn't worry about Dissidia. Dissidia's install feature shows that the game already is ready for digitial distribution.

And also, I think it's reasonable to be upset over this week's update. I'd be pretty mad too if I traded my old PSP for a Go. I knew this would happen and a lot of the great older PSP games won't be on PSN for awhile or maybe not at all. That's why I felt it was unreasonable and stupid to get rid of it toward a Go.Why do that when you can just get a 16GB memory stick for $60 and use the $200 left for more games?

Also, some companies are holding back, maybe on purpose, to tease us, make us impatient, or to milk it. Like Capcom who's releasing in increments. I hate that. Just release everything, sheesh!

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We shouldn't worry about Dissidia. Dissidia's install feature shows that the game already is ready for digitial distribution.

And also, I think it's reasonable to be upset over this week's update. I'd be pretty mad too if I traded my old PSP for a Go. I knew this would happen and a lot of the great older PSP games won't be on PSN for awhile or maybe not at all. That's why I felt it was unreasonable and stupid to get rid of it toward a Go.Why do that when you can just get a 16GB memory stick for $60 and use the $200 left for more games?

Also, some companies are holding back, maybe on purpose, to tease us, make us impatient, or to milk it. Like Capcom who's releasing in increments. I hate that. Just release everything, sheesh!

ASK_Story

thats an interesting idea: releasing games of the back catalog of certain developers in increments in order to tease us.I can see Rockstar Leeds getting GTA:LCS on the psn before GTA: chinatown wars and releasing Vice city stores sometime afterwards.

I just hope that theyre smart and release these games like dissiadia and crisis core and the GTA's before the holidays which is what im expecting.