European PSN updates for December 13th

by Andrew Yoon { Dec 13th 2007 at 7:00PM }

Europe finally gets some games the other territories have been "enjoying" for a while now. Check out this week's update to the PLAYSTATION Store:

Game: Piyotama (£3.49)
Game: High Stakes on the Vegas Strip (£4.99)
Add-on Content: Folklore Christmas Present (free)
Demo: NBA 2K8
Demo: Burnout Paradise
Demo: Conan
Game Videos: Dark Mist trailer, High Velocity Bowling trailer, High Stakes Poker trailer, Piyotama trailer

Additional store updates are featured after the break.

Guitar Hero III Songs

Velvet Revolver Pack (£3.99)
She Builds Quick Machines
Slither
Messages
Foo Fighters Pack (£3.99)
The Pretender
All My Life
This is a Call

Tags: releases

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Wild Pegasus @ Dec 13th 2007 7:54PM

Burnout Paradise is just..... AWESOME!!!! Online was great really fluent, no lag me and three other guys were just racing/ destroying each other for near enough an hour. Not bad for a Demo, Wasn't planning on getting this but Roll on January :D:D:D

Richie @ Dec 13th 2007 9:03PM

i guess conan wont be on the german ps store like kane&lynch demo and some other demos with "gore" :/ but i don't care since i have an american account :P

Brodiesan @ Dec 14th 2007 4:10AM

Andrew, maybe you'll reply to my perennial question as your colleague Jem won't.

Why is European PSN content priced only in sterling?

Ok, I'll get off the fence. When will this content be reported about in Euro?!?!?!

Apologies for the exclamation marks as I normally hate it when people post in such a manner but I've had enough. This is just lazy journalism. The euro is more ubiquitous in Europe than sterling is. As I'm sure a lot of your reader base is from the U.K. I think you SHOULD be showing the prices in British pounds but it is an affront to other Europeans to not also report this information in *their* currency.

Please please please, rectify this as it's quite easy to remedy. I've seen people over at Joystiq complain about this as well. I like coming to PS3Fanboy and I really think the vast majority of articles here are well researched and presented. This just infuriates me as it smacks of a casual disregard to a lot of your fans.

Thank you,

Brodiesan

mint400 @ Dec 14th 2007 10:22AM

what brodie-san says

RMF @ Dec 14th 2007 4:43AM

I'm in Europe, and so far Burnout is not in my Dutch online store.

M3ntal @ Dec 14th 2007 5:03AM

My god sterling again, When will you let us know the price of things in Mongolian!! :(

deadmoshun @ Dec 14th 2007 5:28AM

i think when u select other country's that r pal region but not in eu it will display them in dollars like uae it's eu store but all in dollars which i think is much cheaper

Epux @ Dec 14th 2007 6:45AM

I live in Europe (Norway) and this is the second update which did not come to Norway :S (sory for the bad English)

Danney @ Dec 14th 2007 9:09AM

Stop complaining about what currency the prices are being showed. The prices are different for every freaking country in the whole EU, would you like the ps3fanboy-site to post the costs in all the different currencies? I feel that they could use that time in more important stuff, like finding more cool stuff and information about games.

Brodiesan @ Dec 14th 2007 9:19AM

@M3ntal.

I would be joining you on the picket demanding prices be displayed in Tögrög if the title of the post was "This week's PSN Mongolian updates".

I know you were being facetious but seriously, even though it's a small thing (afterall, I can convert sterling -> euro in my head) it can be easily corrected and it would be nice to be treated as my U.K. neighbours.

@RMF and Deadmoshun

So it sounds like this is the "U.K.'s" PSN update for this week. Then they should bloody well title the article such.

Richie @ Dec 14th 2007 9:18AM

i would like to see it too in euro since i'm from germany :) and the german ps store updates aswell

Brodiesan @ Dec 14th 2007 9:38AM

Hi Danney,

No, I won't stop complaining about the currencies not being in Euro but thanks for your input. I've mentioned it in a separate post where I stated that I appreciated and understood that not every currency can be accommodated due to the different currencies in Europe but the fact is: the euro is used by more people than sterling. So, it makes little sense *not* to display it. The information as it stands is not valid for the majority of the audience reading it. (320 million Europeans use the euro Vs. 60 million people who use sterling).

You make a valid point about "using the time to find out about cool games and such." This is a legitimate argument but the fact is: the people who are writing on this site are not only gamers, they are also journalists. And as a journalist they should be aiming to make their copy as accurate and on point as possible.

Maybe I'm just being pedantic. Maybe just retitle these posts "U.K. PSN updates for this week". It least then it will be accurate.

Once again, I still think this is an excellent site and I'm not trolling or ranting for the sake of it. I just think it would be fantastic that if you're going to call a post "European", and there are prices to be reported, then there is actually reference to the dominate currency in that region.

I appreciate everyone's take on this as I think it's an interesting debate. I'm not interested in a flamewar or a name calling exercise. I'd honestly like to hear people's opinions for and against this idea.