[mekes82]

I wish Id have done a little more research before buying my PSP Go. And also before deciding to spend money on the UK PSN Store.

The handheld itself is sleek, presented very well. Its a lovely bit of tech, I am happy with that side of it. The problems start when you look at the available service for purchasing games.

First of all. Where are the games?!

I thought I would be seeing most of the PSP library available for purchase. My first download was the demo of Final Fantasy Dissidia, a game I was looking forward to trying. I enjoyed it. I thought hey now, I will buy this game. But guess what? It is not available on the store.

Next up, I wanted Final Fantasy Crisis Core. A main reason why Id opted to buy a PSP in the first place. It is not available in any way on the PSN store.

You can waste a good ammount of time on Lumines. Thats not available.

PES! Everybody likes some footy. Not available thanks to a reported pay-off from EA to have FIFA on the store. Great business.

Final Fantasy tactics, Jeanne D'Arc, PSone classics like Resident Evil, Legacy of Kain. So many good games missing.

And the biggest joke? They are all available on the US Store and have been for ages. So it becomes very agitating that you cannot run games from an alternative PS store without changing your PSP's license, therefor being locked out from playing games you purchased from the UK one.

My biggest mistake, spending £150 on the UK store right upon first charge of the PSP.

Sony UK in my opinion need to take their fingers out of their you know whats for us PSP-Go owners and put us on par with the US store. Microsoft have done very well on the digital download front for the Xbox 360 keeping everybody no matter the region on the same track.

The US store is blinding, a great selection of games. Almost 5x the choice that we have on our store. It leaves a real sour taste on my decision to buy a PSP-Go. An otherwise great device with really very good potential.

[stu.artd]

I agree that the PSN should work the same way for the PSP as it does for the PS3, and would say that there definitely should be more games on the UK PSN .

However some of the games you mention aren't available on the US store either. Lumines, PES, Final Fantasy Crisis Core are not available for the PSP on the US store.

[caster troy]

I know what you mean. Sony REALLY needs to up it's game in the downloadable games. I have £72 in my wallet ready to spend but I can not see anything I want. I am waiting for my 3 free game code so will not get anything from that list. Can not believe games like tekken are not on the store.

This is what Sony needs to do. Get rid of this stoopid Thursday only psn update and when the games are ready just get them out FOR PEOPLE TO BUY THEM!!! as when I looked yesterday I almost cried at the list of perfetic games on offer.

Come on Sony we took a big gamble buying the psp go (and I do love it) just give us the fredom to buy what we want when we want.


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[stu.artd]

Tekken 6 for PSP is on the UK store, the price is steep though!

All new releases should be on the PSN at the same time as the retail launch, Sony could even help their PSP Go sales if they started making them available sooner than retail.

[caster troy]

Just got my 3 free games code so that's buzz, syphon filter and resisstance off the list. Really now the only games I want are god of war and the lastest star wars battlefront (but I am no way paying £32!) after that there is nothing else I want.


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[DJSigma]

The selection is crap considering Europe is Sony's biggest market (perhaps not for the PSP alone, but overall when it comes to gaming). Wikipedia lists 112 downloadable PSP games that are available in the US store but not here, which is a bit of a joke really. We get the best deal with Minis though, because out of about 50 of them released so far, all but 1 are available in the Euro store.

[FKA]

bad luck for you, but all 50 games i wanted were right there on the store lol, it sucks if your an rpg fan and want a psp go!!

[centrix]

Originally Posted by mekes82

I wish Id have done a little more research before buying my PSP Go. And also before deciding to spend money on the UK PSN Store.

The handheld itself is sleek, presented very well. Its a lovely bit of tech, I am happy with that side of it. The problems start when you look at the available service for purchasing games.

First of all. Where are the games?!

I thought I would be seeing most of the PSP library available for purchase. My first download was the demo of Final Fantasy Dissidia, a game I was looking forward to trying. I enjoyed it. I thought hey now, I will buy this game. But guess what? It is not available on the store.

Next up, I wanted Final Fantasy Crisis Core. A main reason why Id opted to buy a PSP in the first place. It is not available in any way on the PSN store.

You can waste a good ammount of time on Lumines. Thats not available.

PES! Everybody likes some footy. Not available thanks to a reported pay-off from EA to have FIFA on the store. Great business.

Final Fantasy tactics, Jeanne D'Arc, PSone classics like Resident Evil, Legacy of Kain. So many good games missing.

And the biggest joke? They are all available on the US Store and have been for ages. So it becomes very agitating that you cannot run games from an alternative PS store without changing your PSP's license, therefor being locked out from playing games you purchased from the UK one.

My biggest mistake, spending £150 on the UK store right upon first charge of the PSP.

Sony UK in my opinion need to take their fingers out of their you know whats for us PSP-Go owners and put us on par with the US store. Microsoft have done very well on the digital download front for the Xbox 360 keeping everybody no matter the region on the same track.

The US store is blinding, a great selection of games. Almost 5x the choice that we have on our store. It leaves a real sour taste on my decision to buy a PSP-Go. An otherwise great device with really very good potential.

The most efficient method to tackle this issue of a lack of games for the PSP is to fromally complain to Sony UK and push the issue in forums and in the techy media.

There is no rational explanation for their being only 20% of the selection of games available in the UK that are available in the USA.
Sony are undermining their reputation and the market they choose to be in by creating this anomally and only by users fromally complaining will they change this bizzare decision to restrict access to games in the UK market.

Trying to understand the logic of restriciting the selection of games in the UK is impossible and the only explanation is an error on behalf of Sony.
Petition the UK headquarters and push this issue in the media thereby forcing Sony to backtrack and make the same selection of games available in the UK as overseas.

[Tonks01]

except Sony have stated numerous times that they put up on the store only what publishers give them. If Konami don't come to them with a PSN version of Pro Evo there isnt really much Sony can realistically do.

So pressure specific publishers, not Sony - you won't get far otherwise

[DJSigma]

Originally Posted by Tonks01

except Sony have stated numerous times that they put up on the store only what publishers give them. If Konami don't come to them with a PSN version of Pro Evo there isnt really much Sony can realistically do.

So pressure specific publishers, not Sony - you won't get far otherwise

I don't agree with that. It's a Sony platform that the games are running on, so Sony can force developers' hands on this issue if they really wanted to. Maybe what you said would be a fair argument if developers only bought certain games out on UMD full stop, but that's not (entirely) what people are complaining about here. It's the disparity between the US and EU store that's ******* a lot of people off. Sony should be pushing hard to secure digital downloads of more games for the EU region.