Hi all,
As some of you may know the PSP on-line Euro store is a big joke; only a fraction of the games that are available in the US are for sale here (I'm in The Netherlands), prices are ridiculous, content appears/disappears, translation is bad (parts in Dutch, parts in English, parts in Spanish), searching doesn't work well, DLC isn't updated, patches aren't released here, etc. etc.
I do not understand this. With the Vita coming up I ask myself why Sony does this. Do they not want my money? Do they have the idea that we prefer (bad) localized content over a big choice in games in English? This makes no sense since most games are themselves in English, so why should we care if the actual store is localized if the games are not. I'm not a representative figure in this, but I'd prefer to see everything in English instead of this horribly insane automatically translated incomprehensible crap that they now put up there for game descriptions (as an example, they literally translate 'hot-seat gameplay', so people here are reading that a warm chair is a gameplay feature). Why can't we simply be connected to the US store and, if needed, select a language for the interface? If Steam can do this stuff well, why can't Sony?
Like I said, I'm afraid that Sony is going to mess this up when the Vita launches. That is assuming that the Media Go and PSN store stuff is going to be used for Vita as well. I care because I like the PSP and would like to buy the Vita at some point.
Why is Europe so unimportant to them?
Opinions and/or explanations are much appreciated.
As some of you may know the PSP on-line Euro store is a big joke; only a fraction of the games that are available in the US are for sale here (I'm in The Netherlands), prices are ridiculous, content appears/disappears, translation is bad (parts in Dutch, parts in English, parts in Spanish), searching doesn't work well, DLC isn't updated, patches aren't released here, etc. etc.
I do not understand this. With the Vita coming up I ask myself why Sony does this. Do they not want my money? Do they have the idea that we prefer (bad) localized content over a big choice in games in English? This makes no sense since most games are themselves in English, so why should we care if the actual store is localized if the games are not. I'm not a representative figure in this, but I'd prefer to see everything in English instead of this horribly insane automatically translated incomprehensible crap that they now put up there for game descriptions (as an example, they literally translate 'hot-seat gameplay', so people here are reading that a warm chair is a gameplay feature). Why can't we simply be connected to the US store and, if needed, select a language for the interface? If Steam can do this stuff well, why can't Sony?
Like I said, I'm afraid that Sony is going to mess this up when the Vita launches. That is assuming that the Media Go and PSN store stuff is going to be used for Vita as well. I care because I like the PSP and would like to buy the Vita at some point.
Why is Europe so unimportant to them?
Opinions and/or explanations are much appreciated.