[QUOTE="hillelslovak"] What does web based mean? Im a super tech noob. So can somebody explain this to me?
PSdual_wielder
The old format of the store was pretty much a web browser structure. That was where when you click on a button for example, it takes a few seconds to load into the "next page". The rambling here is that upon seeing this new format, people automatically realized how cheap the old store was made and how slow it is seeing that now the store no longer feels like a web browser and finally more like an application of its own.
Web based would mean that something lives on the web.
A web page is web based. A flash game on a site somewhere is a web based game. Anything you can't really access without the internet would be web based.
The news here is that apparently the store is not web based. Although, they are muddying the waters with the unclear terms here. They seem to be saying that the interface itself is part of a local app, although either way, it obviously has to still communicate over the web.
Finally, a game you play offline would not be web based - it would be local. Even if you play it online, if you load it from some local media, it would be local.
That's where Im confused, here. They dont really seem to clearly say if the actual storefront is really local, like part of the new firmware update itself or whatever.
But I dont think it matters. I think the point theyre trying to make is the look and feel of the store feels more like a menu interface we're all more used to than a sort of web page looknig browser for the store.
Unfortunately, in the process, they really weren't very clear. That makes it harder for tech people like me to explain to non tech people like you, because they don't really say, so all we can do is speak generally and define a few terms loosely.
Hope this helps, though.
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