European PSN updates for September 6th

by Jem Alexander { Sep 6th 2007 at 5:00PM }

It's that time of the week again. No real surprises here, ThreeSpeech pretty much hit the nail on the head a few days ago and called out almost exactly what was coming out on the PSN Store today. The only things they missed were the Gran Turismo 5 and Invasion trailers. Here's the full release list:

Motorstorm Coyote Revenge VIP Pass (£3.99)
Gran Turismo 5 Prologue trailer (Free)
Lair Launch trailer (Free)
Heavenly Sword Making-of episode 4 (Free)
Heavenly Sword Anime episode 4 (Free)

The Coyote Revenge Pass gamepack includes:

Coyote Revenge - mauled into a completely new experience; more technical, new routes and more skillful rivals to battle against
New Tickets - to get the most out of Coyote Revenge try to master these Revenge Weekend tickets; they cover all difficulty stages and completion will earn a nice surprise.
2 New Vehicles - a pair of special Revenge Weekend machines, chosen for your delectation.
Eliminator Mode - played online yet? In this brand new online multiplayer mode being last is a REALLY bad idea; if you can't hack the pace, the consequences can be quite explosive ...

Tags: euroreleases, motorstorm, releases

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Samuraidino @ Sep 6th 2007 5:08PM

Im just gonna say it

FUCK YOU SCEE

This is ridiculous,having just read what the US got from their update Im pretty pissed off.They got about 5 times more stuff this update than we did.

Someone really should be fired for the state of the european store....

DownwardMonkey @ Sep 6th 2007 5:09PM

Wow, that's... Below average...

Egster @ Sep 6th 2007 5:09PM

Have been playing some motorstorm again in anticipation of the DLC. Still immensely fun. Also clearly show Dirt should have stuck to rally stages instead of dirt races because it feels soulless compared to motorstorm.

upz @ Sep 6th 2007 5:09PM

http://blog.us.playstation.com/

Sorry guys, looks like it's time to finally make that US account.

Charles @ Sep 6th 2007 5:12PM

Hahahah, very funny PS3Fanboy. Now where's the real EU update? You know the one with Super Puzzle Fighter and Tekken Online.

When I bought my PS3 I didn't think I was paying to have the piss taken out of me by SCEE. If I'd have known I wouldn't have bothered.

amin @ Sep 6th 2007 5:18PM

Does the european update work with the japanese Version of the Game ?

gullum @ Sep 6th 2007 5:19PM

Blame that cunt Reeves who heads up the EU division. He's always talking shiite like "EU customers don't need a price cut" and now these measly updates. Sony is huge in Europe and their fans deserve better.

That said, while we don't have it as good as Japan, I'm glad to be a US gamer.

Joe @ Sep 6th 2007 5:21PM

Anyone care to explain how I can set up a US account so i can actually get some REAL FUCKING CONTENT. This is getting absolutely ridiculous. I've said this before, but Sony's whole "The PAL territories are going as planned" is simply their way of saying "We dont have to try with these assholes, they'll buy the shit anyway."

How hard is it to honestly put up the same stuff on both stores? Even a day later I could understand, but its fucked up.

Andy @ Sep 6th 2007 5:28PM

Why are you people so pissed off? You are getting the same Motorstorm goodness as North America. And both Super Puzzle Fighter and Tekken Online are not made by Sony so they don't have as much control over them.

This is a good update. Just have fun with your PatienceStation 3.

Dave @ Sep 6th 2007 5:33PM

So the US store gets all of this.........

The new demos include:
• Stranglehold
• NBA Live 08

• MotorStorm Revenge Weekend Add-on Pack (New track, vehicles, races and race mode) — $5.99
• MotorStorm Add-on Vehicle 1 (Wakazashi Razor bike) — $0.99
• MotorStorm Add-on Vehicle 2 (Wombat Mudslide ATV) — $0.99
• MotorStorm Add-on Vehicle 3 (Atlas Varjack mudplugger) — $0.99
• MotorStorm Add-on Vehicle 4 (Atlas Arizona big rig) — $0.99
• Ninja Gaiden Sigma Weapons Master Add-on (5 survival modes) — $2.99

• Turok “Quiet Kills” Trailer
• PixelJunk Racers Trailer
• Heavenly Sword “Making Of” No. 5
• Heavenly Sword Anime No. 5
• Lair “World in Chaos” Video
• MotorStorm “Coyote Revenge” Video
• Drillbit Tailer Trailer
• Resident Evil: Extinction Trailer
• Heavenly Sword Anime No. 5 Wallpaper

Its getting embarasing owning this console, why is the UK getting screwed constantly. This is digital content there are no excuses for this other than laziness and lack of commitment.

SCEE should give Europe more, we all paid more for this dusty box. All we're getting is delays and excuses.

Yaster @ Sep 6th 2007 5:31PM

Now we are one week behind the states on the Heavenly Sword making of and animation? How the feck did that happen?

Dave @ Sep 6th 2007 5:34PM

@ Andy

The US store got a lot more Motorstorm too.

• MotorStorm Add-on Vehicle 1 (Wakazashi Razor bike) — $0.99
• MotorStorm Add-on Vehicle 2 (Wombat Mudslide ATV) — $0.99
• MotorStorm Add-on Vehicle 3 (Atlas Varjack mudplugger) — $0.99
• MotorStorm Add-on Vehicle 4 (Atlas Arizona big rig) — $0.99
• Ninja Gaiden Sigma Weapons Master Add-on (5 survival modes) — $2.99

White_hell @ Sep 6th 2007 5:35PM

AHHHHH FOR FUCK SACK

when i read on threespeech about the motorstorm release dates i thought all well and good that they would be spread out and will be the same as the US store

AND FOR FUCK SAKE THE US STORE GETS ALL THE MOTORSTORM DLC TODAY.... FOR FUCK SAKE THIS IS THEIR LAST CHANCE TO GET THINGS FUCKING RIGHT!! THE US GETS ALL THIS GREAT STUFF AND THE EU GETS JACK-SHIT AND STUFF THAT CAME OUT 2 MONTHS AGO ON THE US STORE. THIS IS FUCKING STUPID.

You just wait until threespeech update there website with about the update im am seriously going to spam that until they do something about the eu store getting jack shit.

I am finally know the answer of why the ps3 isnt doing well in some contries in the EU because THEY DONT GIVE US ANY FUCKING DECENT UPDATES!

Egster @ Sep 6th 2007 5:43PM

How old are you guys? Start acting a bit more mature. It's just a videogame console.

If you want to enjoy everything than just create multiple accounts. Quit being lazy.

Andy @ Sep 6th 2007 5:47PM

Those vehicles are included in the Coyote Revenge VIP Pass.

I didn't know the US store was getting 2 demos. There are so many demos I can't even download them all! (is this the wrong place to say that?)

ClarkyCat @ Sep 6th 2007 6:06PM

@14 You're missing the point. It's not "just" a videogame console, it's the most expensive console out of the 3, and in the region where it costs the most, it gets the least content. Of course there's more mature means to discuss the rapeage of EU PS3 fans than writing FUCK YOU SCEE!!!111 but more often than not that pretty much summarises it. SCEE are so ham-fisted themselves that they wouldn't understand a rational argument anyway.

And it's not as simple as setting up multiple accounts, you can only get the free stuff that way. You need a credit card with a US billing address to get anything of substance. Plus, any of the demos from the US store are 60hz, EU TVs are 50hz.

@7 Correct, Reeves is a bastard. I remember all the promises when he took over from Deering, that the EU was going to be the leader rather than the follower. We've been screwed worse than ever, since that.

DownwardMonkey @ Sep 6th 2007 6:11PM

Egster you've missed the point as to why people are angry. Totally in fact.
People are starting to feel like not only did the UK get lesser PS3 hardware while we paid the same high price as everyone else but we're also getting very very shafted on PSN updates. It has nothing to do with being lazy and making a US account, why the hell should we have to in the first place? There is no way in the world you can tell me that things like the HS videos needed to be delayed for licensing or localisation issues.

Charles @ Sep 6th 2007 6:13PM

Egster, it is not case of "being lazy" the problem is that you need a credit card registered at a US address to purchase content in the US store.
Creating multiple accounts will not let you "enjoy everything" since you still won't be able to buy the games.

Of all the comments in this thread yours is the least accurate and least productive so perhaps you should check your facts before attacking other people.

Ian @ Sep 6th 2007 6:34PM

Bizarrely I have checked my USA account (I'm UK based) and can't find the published updates so can't download the Stranglehold demo anyway. I've looked through all the sections, not just the top screen - What's the score, what am I doing wrong?

Egster @ Sep 6th 2007 6:35PM

It's just how the world works. Movies get released earlier in the US, they have videomarketplace, they pay less for practically everything.

Really some of the tirades that are posted here are disconcerting.

Ste @ Sep 6th 2007 7:18PM

@19

It's definitely there, I'm downloading it rifght now. You sure you're looking at the store on a US account?

As for the US update > EU update thing, well, no matter how annoying it is, I've come to expect it now. I'll just patiently whilst SCEE play catch up with our EU store.

PooBahaha @ Sep 6th 2007 7:20PM

If you Europeans would just all speak one language with one currency then you might get content at the same time as the USA.

The USA is one unified market of 300 million people, with one currency, it is easier, faster, and more profitable to roll a product out to the US market.

SoKold @ Sep 7th 2007 1:38AM

TO ALL EUROPE AND UK GAMERS I HAVE WRITTEN A LETTER TO SONY ABOUT THE WAY THE LOOK AND HAVE BEEN TREATING US. I HAVE PUT THE LETTER ON Hi5. AND I WILL EVEN POST A BIT OF IT ON HERE IF YOU WANT TO READ THE FULL LETTER GO TO http://europeps3.hi5.com AND LEAVE A COMMENT I WILL BE SHOWING THIS PROFILE TO SONY TO.

To whom it may concern

Dear Sony,

My name is Jonathan Britton, I am 22 years old and I live in Southeast London in Lee.
I am very disappointed with the way you view us consumer in UK and Europe.
I use to stick up for you and defined the PS3, when ever anyone would put the console down. But after seeing the Japanese, Hong Kong and USA PlayStation Store; it’s now come down to me saying the one thing that every one else is.
You do not care about your consumers in the UK or Europe…!
After reading this article, it really does show people that you do not care about how we feel and what we think:

Sony executive VP Jamie MacDonald had this to say when asked by Games Industry .biz regarding later releases (or delays) in Europe:

"European consumers have shown that historically they don't mind [the delays], because they end up buying as many PlayStations, if not more, than the US and Japan. In Europe, it doesn't seem that the release of our platforms after the US and Japan-in the long run-affects how consumers feel ... If we were sitting here in five years' time, I don't think we'd really think about or notice that PlayStation 3 was four or five months later in Europe."

First thing is, that is not true.
I use to work in Game in Hamleys in London, and a lot of people were complaining about the delay of the PS3 in Europe, also a lot of gamers in the UK feel like they have been treated unfairly regarding the 20GB PS3 not being relished and now the 80GB PS3 may not be relished in Europe this year:

“Sony Computer Entertainment Europe president David Reeves isn't planning on selling that 80GB PS3 in your hood anytime soon. Writing for MCV, Reeves states that
“the larger hard drive only makes sense in a market like South Korea, which has "very high broadband penetration and the people there are used to downloading content, so they require a certain size hard drive.”
“Ouch, way to underestimate your consumers -- better start downloading more movies, Europe.”

We do not want to spend time downloading movie trailers of films on the PlayStation Store that are coming out on Blu-Ray DVD, when we can already see that on the internet.
I do fully understand that you do need to advertise them in one way or another.
But we do want the 80GB PS3.
Why…? You might ask, so we can use that space to go towards Linux on the PS3, and be able to copy the TV shows and films we have on our hard drive of our PC, and move them on to our PS3, and have more space to put our music collection, full games and game demos that we have downloaded from the PlayStation Store.

To read the Full Leater go to

http://europeps3.hi5.com