PS5 The PlayStation Store

[Regular Waterfall]

The PlayStation store has been around for a long time now, and it’s still shit. I feel like a cracked out meth head scouring the deal pages for the same old deals, looking for a feeling that just isn't there anymore. This feeling has got me thinking about the relationship between gamers, digital storefronts and physical game stores.

Game stores (and rental stores) felt so exciting when I was younger. I loved to browse, pick up games and read blurbs that felt like they were actually trying, and it felt great to be around people who were all there for the same thing. But there's just something so hollow about the experience of the PS store. It feels like I'm walking into a cold, empty gallery run by a faceless curator who doesn't care about my experience and just wants me to empty my wallet.

At least we moved away from that awful vertical alphabet search.

What do you as a user think of the current Playstation store, how it serves its games to you, and I suppose more broadly, how it feels to browse?

 

[Tsukishima]

You kind of captured how I feel browsing the Playstation Store. It captures the same feeling as doom scrolling on websites like Twitter.

Nintendo storefronts at least had some sort of magic with wonderful themes for the Eshop. They stopped that now, which incidentally says a lot about how even running a thought about customers is all but knocking on the door of a vacant lot for them.

 

[JellyjamLu]

I don't have a massive problem with it, but some menu's are unnecessarily hidden, Like demos for example.... this should be more immediate to find, it's silly how I have to type out the game, navigate and click on it, then click on the three vertical lines for a drop down menu THEN you can grab the demo.

 

[Regular Waterfall]

I don't have a massive problem with it, but some menu's are unnecessarily hidden, Like demos for example.... this should be more immediate to find, it's silly how I have to type out the game, navigate and click on it, then click on the three vertical lines for a drop down menu THEN you can grab the demo.

I agree, it shouldn’t be a mission to trial a game

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You kind of captured how I feel browsing the Playstation Store. It captures the same feeling as doom scrolling on websites like Twitter.

Nintendo storefronts at least had some sort of magic with wonderful themes for the Eshop. They stopped that now, which incidentally says a lot about how even running a thought about customers is all but knocking on the door of a vacant lot for them.

It certainly does feel like doom scrolling. I think Steam has managed to address this feeling as it feels fun to browse games, though I just wish their categorization was good and there was less crap to wade through

 

[Nebulon_Galaxy]

Its crazy the original bubble ui for PS Store is still in the code and still accessible via the in-game option. and yet they rather redesign it with that god awful ui that is slow as a glacier. the bubble ui they had at the beginning of the ps3 era is so fast and fluid.

 

[Advil Lavs]

I don't browse the built-in stores of consoles usually because I've given up on them. I usually use third-party sites.

 

[Vexicrypt]

Can't really comment on PS5's store, but I hated the PS4's store since very beginning. Its unintuitive, cluttered, slow and made my console's menu lag after I close the store. They changed some things throughout the years but never fixed it.

 

[Kovlak]

I don't browse the built-in stores of consoles usually because I've given up on them. I usually use third-party sites.

I did that too, but since the dynamic pricing scandal I stopped buying digital games in the store.

It's an awful experience scrolling the store. There's far too many games and store begins to lag after a while.

 

[pang]

agreed with how bloated they all are, the sales are so massive and the discoverability so poor that it feels pointless to actually find new things on it

 

[Regular Waterfall]

I did that too, but since the dynamic pricing scandal I stopped buying digital games in the store.

It's an awful experience scrolling the store. There's far too many games and store begins to lag after a while.

Plus when you’re scrolling through it’s like you’re scrolling through a bunch of pngs, it feels like a waste of time haha

Can't really comment on PS5's store, but I hated the PS4's store since very beginning. It’s unintuitive, cluttered, slow and made my console's menu lag after I close the store. They changed some things throughout the years but never fixed it.

I distinctly remember feeling like I wanted them to just go back to the ps3 store when I got a PS4