PLAYSTATION Network portable ID now available

by Alan Tsang { Jul 14th 2008 at 7:30AM }

Here's a nifty feature some of you have been looking forward to -- an official way to display your PSN ID on various websites. Obviously, you will need to have a PSN account. You will also need to sign up for a PlayStation Underground account as well if you do not already have one. Linking to the two of them together will allow you access to the PLAYSTATION Network portable ID. The PSN portable ID "is a visual summary of your PLAYSTATION®Network account, including your Avatar, "About Me" message and Online ID." There is even an HTML code provided for you to display this information wherever you please.

You can also now access your Friend List via the PSU -- in addition to the information on their portable ID, you will see their online status. If online, you can view their comment/status and what game they are currently playing. If they are offline, you can see when they were last online. At this time, you cannot manage your Friend List via the PSU. So what are you waiting for? Link your accounts up here.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in!]

Tags: playstation-network, portable-id, psn, psu

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

The1stMJC @ Jul 14th 2008 7:38AM

First one to do it now what?

Lars @ Jul 14th 2008 3:38PM

Whoopdeefreakindoo! I dunno... who cares about crap like this?

Sony, give us something actually useful like Skype on PS3 (available in-game) or something.

Pesico @ Jul 14th 2008 7:47AM

Hope they do the same on the official eu forums aswell.

stargateheaven @ Jul 14th 2008 11:19AM

It's silly we could link our PSN IDs to the eu site AGES ago, but it didn't do anything.

Ves @ Jul 14th 2008 5:39PM

I linked my PSN (EU) with it and it works. No issue (so far) with my EU link-up as well.

neilspinney @ Jul 14th 2008 8:02AM

Well what do you know it not for us in europe!!

Tried Signing up but need a USA address - might just make one up and see if that works???

lol

chezzmarlon

r-nice @ Jul 14th 2008 8:08AM

It's not working for me. It just keeps giving me instructions on how to do it, even though i've already done it.

crazypenguin @ Jul 14th 2008 8:08AM

just linked up, very nice work sony the day before presentation, i can't wait to know what they are going to do tomorrow.

neilspinney @ Jul 14th 2008 8:10AM

well it seems that I have linked accounts using a my address in the UK, but selecting USA address field for any blank fields!!!??

now just need to get the html code .........nice

neilspinney @ Jul 14th 2008 8:30AM

Yes got the html code!! time to play and up date our clan website!!

Team "TDB" come on!!!!

The Aggie CEO @ Jul 14th 2008 8:10AM

done........

now if they can get the trophies code up and running within the week that would be nice......

and I remember a while back they were talking about having to shut down the EU forums in order to do this........

if I recall correctly I didnt see any down time at all for this.......lol

Ken Edwards @ Jul 14th 2008 8:27AM

OK So I did it. So where is the site where I can see it, and where the heck can you get the HTML code for it?

One would think it would be in a FAQ. But then again this is Sony.

warlock7 @ Jul 14th 2008 8:31AM

It's on the page Ken...

http://www.us.playstation.com/PS3/Network/PID

Ken Edwards @ Jul 14th 2008 8:34AM

OK so it took a few minutes to generate it. I see it now. However, I still do not see where you can see a web page that lists your friends list and their online/offline status.

Kspraydad @ Jul 14th 2008 11:23AM

Ken needs spoon feeding....

Click on your name at the top of the page and along the left side you will see a link to your Friends List.

Ken Edwards @ Jul 14th 2008 12:12PM

That or maybe those sets of links were not there this morning when I linked my accounts.

Mo @ Jul 14th 2008 3:02PM

i got my money on:

Ken needs spoon feeding....

warlock7 @ Jul 14th 2008 8:30AM

So,where's the "friends list"? Can't seem to find it... They talk about it on the page, but there doesn't appear to be a tab as described in the page...

John Giotta @ Jul 14th 2008 10:22AM

Look in "My Account". It located at the top.

shane @ Jul 14th 2008 8:33AM

I tried to do it but when you try to access the page with the html code from a non-US server you get blocked. It's US only

R @ Jul 14th 2008 11:19AM

I'm in the UK and I can sign up and see it perfectly, you don't need to enter your address details at all for it to work.

shane @ Jul 14th 2008 9:53AM

edit: now it's working, crappy internets

koehler83 @ Jul 14th 2008 8:43AM

It keeps asking me the same security question over and over but the correct answer doesnt appear to be correct.. Like I don't know where I was born.

I really have security questions.. I know the answer, but I dont know the exact spelling and punctuation I may have used when I put it in originally.. or the database simply has the wrong answer.. which doesnt help me either.

Albanian_Killa @ Jul 14th 2008 8:49AM

Oooh, nice, everything worked perfectly. I wish they would show our recently played games though. If it did that, I would ditch my Triple tag. It's a great first step. Great to see you can access the friends list from PSU. They just need to have a list of recently played games to make it great. I wish our friends list on our XMB could tell us how long a friend's been offline :(

CaptnSpaulding @ Jul 14th 2008 9:13AM

doh... another thing us brits/europeans miss out on :(

Gate @ Jul 14th 2008 9:21AM

Worked for me. You have to wait a fair while for the html to show up. Took at least a good 3 minutes. Just keep refreshing that page it takes you to, I guess.

Gaucho @ Jul 14th 2008 9:37AM

All this technical mumbo jumbo is too complicated for me I'm just going to put a sticker on my monitor with my PSN info and that'll be that.

Tim Parsons @ Jul 14th 2008 12:03PM

what technical mumbo jumbo ?? LMAO

Mo @ Jul 14th 2008 3:06PM

sticker? what for you, and you alone to see? To keep up with whether or not you are online? or how long ago you were online?

confused... please explain

Fraser JK @ Jul 14th 2008 9:39AM

Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice!

Gemini Ace @ Jul 14th 2008 9:47AM

Put mine on my blog. http://www.geminiace.com/

klexam @ Jul 14th 2008 11:03AM

Cool. Just got signed up for mine too.

SonofaGunner @ Jul 14th 2008 9:56AM

This is good, this renders all those useless manual "card" sites ...useless. It's good since most of those guys are busy trying to make a buck off of ads rather than provide something decent.

MakaiOokami @ Jul 14th 2008 9:59AM

Great feature. just like all Sony features, it'll take a bit of time to fully impliment, but once they do we can expect great things from it.

Mo @ Jul 14th 2008 3:11PM

agreed, its just hard to see past its shortcomings... (wow i sound like the rest of the haters)

Reminds me of the first ps3 profile (before 2.4) so simple, and so useless. Im smart enough to acknowledge that this is a great first step, but it just seems so incomplete. you can put this out, which basically is a one liner with your avatar. and allow it to grow with use, but home (which will never be finished) still isnt ready for people to poke and prod at? maybe im just frustrated because i wanted trophies on my card. (not to mention to beta test home)

/vent

MakaiOokami @ Jul 15th 2008 11:25AM

You only have up to 16 trophies. I mean is it really that great to show off 1-16 trophies? There will be mroe games, more trophies, and then Sony will release features like that. Until then it's kinda moot. There will be hundreds of people with lvl2 and a trophies, wouldn't you rather see the feature when there's atleast 5 or more games out with it and we have some 30-60 trophies to show off?

Dr. Strangepork @ Jul 14th 2008 10:36AM

You can only find your friends list within your Underground account profile. It will show who is online, what they are playing, etc.

TheSh0wstopper @ Jul 14th 2008 10:46AM

Hey guys,

this is wayyyy of topic, but anyway....

So I bought Mortal Kombat 2 off the psn store friday night. But the sound is messed up. It is extremely low. But the sound is fine when I pause the game. Anyone else have this problem, or know how to fix it?

-TheSh0wstopper