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Contents 1 Centralized Server? 2 Basic Services 3 Video uploading/sharing 4 References 5 Point system VS local currency 6 Comparison with Live 7 Friends list. 8 Feature Icons 9 PLAYSTATION® Store 10 1000 Games at EU launch 11 Playstation Home 12 Merge from PlayStation Store 13 Playstation Home Page 14 Merged the PS Store article 15 Criticism Section

[edit] Centralized Server?

Anyone know if the Playstation Network uses a centralized server like Xbox Live? I have heard rumors that it dosen't.

You have to distinguish between game servers and backend servers. The infrastructure that powers the features of the Playstation Network (account logins, buddy lists, matchmaking) is no doubt centralized, at least with some regional mirrors. Additional backend servers might be provided by third party vendors that provide PS3 middleware like Demonware, GameSpy, Quazal or Xfire. The actual game servers that you play on are almost always hosted by end users and thus highly distributed. It makes no difference whether you're playing Gears of War, Call of Duty or Halo on the Xbox platform, or Resistance, Untold Legends or Marvel: Ultimate Alliance on the PS3. Only in very few exceptions (Some Novalogic games and Battlefield 2: Modern Combat on the PS2 e.g.) are console games hosted on dedicated game servers. Otherwise, no publisher (or console manufacturer) is going to foot the bill to host hundreds or thousands of game servers, not for free or $50 a year. Jschuur 07:41, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Basic Services

The comparison to XBox Live here isn't verifiable. Based on the E3 press conference presentation (where the list of Basic Services shown did NOT include online gameplay), there's no reason to believe that online play will actually be free. This should probably be modified until there is true verification on the actual pricing structure and services that will be offered as this is currently speculation.131.107.0.77 17:59, 17 May 2006 (UTC)Dennis

It's carefully worded ability for gamers to play multiplayer games online for free : it's possible that playing such games will be free, whereas Xbox Live certainly isn't free. Article includes details of where such claims where originally made. As such, I think the article is accurate. --Oscarthecat 18:08, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

I've added a sentenced refering to the disscusion area as regards to free online play. We have to understand we wont really know what services the ps3 online will offer, Untill sony says in solid stone and verifies that the ps3 online service will offer free gaming we cannot be certain. I think it would be best not to delete the sentence but provide a fair warning that this is not certain. If someone preorders a ps3 on the 100% wikipedia assumpition that they will receive free online play and this turns out no to be true or has unlisted rescritions placed upon it we have failed in our job as a information resource.

100 [1] [2] [3] Here are some links suggesting that online play will be free, and searching around finds there are many more. As of the moment, I think it is safe to say that online play will be free on the PS3, but perhaps some citation is needed on the article.

Suggesting but nothing clearcut.

[edit] Video uploading/sharing

During Sony's press conference at TGS 2006, Ken Kutaragi said that you will be able to upload and share videos on PlayStation Network Platform, so keep it on there!!! http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3153860 Amish Gramish 03:03, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] References

I forgot how to add the references, and wikipedia isn't helping me out with it, because they say to put <.r.e.f.>, (it screws up the page if I put it how they said it) but I couldn't get it to work with http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3153860 So if anyone reads this, please put that link as a reference for the video upload/sharing service. Amish Gramish 03:15, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

I assume you're pointing to this quote in that article

Videos too! PS3 clones YouTube! No, not really, but it sounds like petite vids will be available on the network for the PS3 platform. Sounds like users will be able to share them between one another? But like the rest of this conference, there seems to be lots of abstractions thrown around. Gimme something concrete!

This is really not worthy of including here if even the reporter is very vague about it. Removing the video upload stuff from the article unless more / better sources come up. -- Sirius81 | Talk 15:03, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Point system VS local currency

I have edited the Xbox Live point system comparison. Calling it a "scheme" is just plain ignorant. It us up to the readers to decide which they prefer. Sorcre 00:51, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Comparison with Live

the section is more than a bit bias can some one fix it

I have removed the Xbox live comparison and renamed it to "Features." 71.163.110.222 00:02, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Besides. Comparison with Live? Bah. It would look like this. Live cost $50 a year. No more, no less. PNP cost free until independent studios begin to nickle and dime you for use of their servers. Live is a unified service with a future. PNP is a service, and with Sony leading them, it will explode like a battery.

Ah, I could go on, but until its proven, no complaints right? - 68.228.33.74 06:20, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Friends list.

I include details about individual friends list. Some games (such as Resistance) will not use the PNP's friends list, instead, they will use a friend list specific to that game.

Quick source : http://www.ps3land.com/article-877.php Sorcre

[edit] Feature Icons

Someone who knows what feature corresponds to what icon should list them in the text below the picture at the top of the page. Perhaps after where it says“Icons of the various PSN features”add something like “From left to right” then list them or “The features are _____________ respectively”. Gerren McKnight 01:30, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] PLAYSTATION® Store

I created the page for the PS Store yesterday (surprised no one ever did). I put a link in the commerce part to the page. If anyone would like to simplify it somehow please do so.

DanB91 15:11, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 1000 Games at EU launch

Hey all I want to point out that there is a rumor about 1000 Games that will be downloadable from the network at launch. This is not true. Software emulation is going to be available to play these games on the PS3 only, there is no downloading here other than these patches. Just read the interview again here.--WhereAmI 01:40, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Playstation Home

Should the paragraph about the PlayStation Home rumor be on the page? At the moment it is still speculation, websites/blogs citing sources apparently within Sony doesn't make it fact. 193.1.36.14 14:01, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merge from PlayStation Store

Please merge relevant content, if any, from PlayStation Store per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/PlayStation Store. (If there is nothing to merge, just leave it as a redirect.) Thanks. —Quarl ^(talk) 2007-03-07 11:09Z

• Many people voted it for keep and it was merged. Its too much info for the article, but it will hopefully be merged eventually

DanB91 18:51, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Playstation Home Page

I created a seperate article for Playstation Home, the reason being is because eventually this is going to be too large for just one article. Right now the page is merely a duplicate of this article however hopefully we can A) Simplify the Playstation Home section here and B) Expand the Playstation Home Article.

Thier is a problem though, and I'm asking for the comunitys help in fixing it, when I made the Playstation Home article I simply copy and pasted from this section however that means all the reference numbers got transferred to (without the refrences) I need help in restoring the references on the Playstation Home page since I don't really know how to do it, thanks. Deathawk 22:50, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

It's been reverted, and I redirected Playstation Home to PlayStation Home.

First of, that's the correct spelling. Further, that is an article, or at least the name, I had already made. It was redirect to here from the start, because at that time, and at this moment still, it doesn't warrant it's own article yet.

When you think you can expand PlayStation Home enough, so not with the lower case s, simply copy the references section. {{Reflist}} makes that list of references. JackSparrow Ninja 23:09, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

I dont think that the PS Home article will get out of the PSN page. They denied the PS Store page for some stupid reason. If they did that, i highly doubt they'll let u make a PS Home page. But we shall see. DanB91 23:12, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I just noticed that. But, as stated below, I'm willing to fight that decission. No way that there was a merge consensus... JackSparrow Ninja 03:50, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Alot of people at first said merge, but as the discussion went on and the page got bigger, people started to say keep and an admin just decided to merge the pages. Can we start a vote?--DanB91 11:48, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merged the PS Store article

I merged it exactly how it was (except for the links and changing catagoies, etc.) With this and PS Home this will get too big. I think we should vote to make both sections their own pages. --DanB91 23:27, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Criticism Section

The manner in which the store operates has been criticised by Penny Arcade. The store has been criticized to be slow and unable to perform tasks while downloading, unlike the Xbox Live Marketplace (though this will be fixed in a future firmware update).

If we need to keep this section in, (notice Live doesnt have one) I'm at least removing the the "unlike xbox live" because honestly like other places on this page it sounds like an excuse to link to Live. Mr toasty 21:03, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

• I copy and pasted this almost exactly the original article was. So thus we should keep all sections to prove that this and the PS Home sections are too much. How do we do a consensus?--DanB91 23:45, 8 March 2007 (UTC)