Sony launches MyPSN on PlayStation.com News

It's the future!

Basic as feck!! ... But sure most stuff will be coming!!! ... as always! :D

I want to see the trophy.

Do you want to see my trophy Sanduixe?

Well, at least that's a small fraction of the functionality Microsoft had three years ago. Good work Sony!

I wonder where they got that idea from?

"The next generation starts when we......er, copy Microsoft."

ha ha ha

Postive news gets negative feedback...suprise suprise.

NorSoSlim you're forgetting that Microsoft have never copied anything. Ever.

Did this just launch in Europe? It's been on the US site for a while.

Nice but i want to have trophy support from there.

@Thermoganator

"The next generation starts when we......er, copy Microsoft."

Yep because avatars were ALL Microsofts idea weren't they. Oo little versions of youself on screen no one has done that lets be the first :) haha

Lets face it this gen everyone's copying the best ideas off each other which is by no means a bad thing.

Glad to hear Sony are doing this, though I would have preferred them to spend time and money on this than perhaps all the time and effort on Home. ;)

Not only that but people usually forget the PSN is free,
sony is doing a lot of similar services without charging us unlike microsoft.

About time, but sure this is welcome. Live has really changed the way I view my gaming and Sony has been feeling left behind. This is a step towards evening the experience.

the link doesn't work. has any one used this yet?

@jonnyelsby go to the Euro website and then I think the Link is My Sony Network, login with your PSN account info and then you can create a card... works perfectly fine for me.

its good to know that they are thinking about it but no way as good as PlayFire.

"What Sony has done in the space of 2 years is nothing short of amazing."

They've had to run *very* fast to catch up as much as they have, yes. Still, competition is good, and I wouldn't want either corporation to become the overly dominant one. While they're fighting over features we stand to benefit, especially those of us with both formats.

Good stuff, but you can't expect people not to poke fun when both Steam and XBL have had a superset of this functionality for years. Sure Sony have had less time, but who's fault is that? They should have been working on this sort of thing *before* the PS3 was released, not playing catch-up 2 years later.

It's so obvious that Sony is a hardware company and Microsoft a software company. Microsoft messed up the hardware, trying to patch it later and failing. Sony got the hardware sorted but their software & online services were clearly not planned well, being 'assembled on the fly', leading to inconsistencies and holes in the feature set, retrospective additions like trophies etc. Why couldn't these guys just get together and do what they each do best? A Sony designed box with Microsoft designed online software would have been killer. Tsk.

Edit: well, ok Sony make hardware mistakes too, like the Cell, which turned out to be a bit of a white elephant that had to be supplemented with an underpowered GPU when it turned out not to be as awesome as they thought. But they sure now how to design sleek, quiet boxes.

I'm fed up of people moaning about companies copying eachother, without it the industry would be pretty much dead. If no-one copied the idea from the company who made the first games console, imagine what it would be like today.

"While they're fighting over features we stand to benefit, especially those of us with both formats"

I agree with that, except that Sony isn't really in the fight yet. PSN's major selling point right now is "it's free", which isn't what I would call competing. But yeah, if they finally catch up and can start pushing things we haven't seen before (like user created content maybe - they've started with that although it's been a little rough PR wise so far with the moderation) then maybe there would start being a reason to challenge the XBL Gold subscription fee, which can only be a good thing.

I think Microsoft planned the Xbox Live for Xbox 360 very well when it was released three years ago. Sony has added many of Lives features, which is not a bad idea. It only shows that Sony hadn't thought that much of its services as Microsoft.

I found this accidently yesterday when going to update my profile.

2011

Its pretty simple both Ninty and Sony didnt realise how big online would be. At least Sony are trying and doing something different with Home.

This integration with the official site is long overdue but its in the process now.

@"What Sony has done in the space of 2 years is nothing short of amazing."
I'm still waiting for my PS3 to amaze me :|

Microsoft have basically marketed and pushed online console gaming with Xbox live. They've added value to home broadband connections in the same manner as Youtube Hotmail and Facebook have.

At the same time, broadband penetration and affordability has skyrocketed. M$ has created this space, and is now broadening it. As Sony develops their online strategy (very late and reluctantly, it seems), they're just adtding to this market.

Sony have been slow and silly in respect to online up to this point, as they've been happier selling electronic boxes and optical discs so far. It worked well for two generations and since the change, they haven't adaped very well.

Their progress is welcome, but they still look like dinosaurs right now.

They can rescue some dignity by getting the video store out in the UK and Europe sometime soon... but this doesn't improve gaming in any way either...

pssst... reintroduce PS2 BC and sell the games online ala Xbox Originals...

/is damn near impossible due to the emulation nightmare that is the PS2.

PS2 emulation will always be hard due to the bandwidth of the GFX chip on the board (it was fantastically high) so if they don't put the EE back in then it won't happen. In all fairness a new console provides new games and new experiences so PS2 games may be a thing of the past but there's a fair few that want it still.

PS3 are predominantly a hardware company so kudos for catching up in the online world where Microsoft has ruled the roost for years (and quite right their net code is awesome).

But there's plenty of room in this world for Microsoft and Sony to co-exist with the same online infrastructure. They will both innovate and imitate in there own ways but end of the day it only does us (the consumer) a better way of gaming.

@Zero_Cool

be a saint and fuck off!

All this stuff about playstation have stolen ideas from ms, Lol has anyone played the new nintendsoft experience with the new mii's I mean avatars?

Sony will sell PS2 games over PSN once support for PS2 stops and PS2 stops selling. They may also do it once the PS3 is mass market price. Seriously how many people actually buy xbox originals?

@deathdealer if you want to be that pedantic then Sony have done the exact same thing with their new miis I mean avatars in Home.

Avatars were around long before miis.

@metalnut

What do you mean Sony aren't competing because the PSN's only selling point is that its "free". I can guarantee that for the vast majority of people, PSN is adequate for their needs. It may not have as many features, but all most people want to do is play a game online, something the PSN does fine. I was happy enough with the PS2 version...

And many people don't want to pay 50$ to play online game once every two weeks :)

^did you just say 50$/week?!
Tha'ts crazy!


I'm glad Live is 50$/year!

Wow... 1995 called!

Jeez. Software company makes borky console but excellent online software.
Consumer electronics company makes reliable console, but has to catch up with online software.

Who'd a thunk it. :/

Personally, I don't give a monkeys about a website with my pathetic gamer stats on or a geeky forum signature, but if it's free and works, no harm.

Is EG going to integrate it into Eurogamers like Live?

nice

now can we please the option to sign in multiple accounts at once, so that when your playing split screen both people playing can rack up trophies and in game xp

"Yep because avatars were ALL Microsofts idea weren't they. Oo little versions of youself on screen no one has done that lets be the first"

Well, they did it before nintendo - if you are implying that nintendo invented such a concept - but you are correct, those concepts come from the pc.

Along with just about any 'original' idea to appear on consoles I might add. Without the pc, consoles would be dead in the water.

"Along with just about any 'original' idea to appear on consoles I might add. Without the pc, consoles would be dead in the water. "

Obviously all stuff comes from PCs. It is an open platform and has been for 20 years. people can experiment like crazy on it. Avatars where big in the 80s during the "VR"-bubble ;)

ZERO_COOL What Sony has done in the space of 2 years is nothing short of amazing.

Umm thats a very positive way of looking at it.
Basically Sony have had the whole of the PS3's development time plus 3 years while LIVE had been out to look at and crib ideas then 2 years to actually only match (not exceed) the basic functionality that LIVE has always had.

Its only a frontend upgrade they can do them easily within a few months.

Well, it seems to deny that my PSP exists. I guess I'll try again later.

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@Zero_Cool

be a saint and fuck off!
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I hate kids in the pub!!

@Zero_Cool

Oh the irony! How about you do us all a favour and stop acting like one!