Slated PlayStation Store (US) offerings for Launch Day

Each tick of the second hand must be agonizing by now. US Launch Day, and Gaming Age’s Jim Cordeira already has a sneak peek at the US PlayStation Store. We don’t know if by “US PlayStation Store” he means that there will be country-specific content or something, but we’ll let that pass for now, at least until we have any hard stuff from SCEA/SCEJ/SCEE about that.

Okay, before we get to the slated (may change at Launch Day) offerings for US PS3 owners, let’s get to Jimmy’s impressions of shopping with the PS3. It’s definitely like iTunes, he says, scales very well between SDTV and HDTV formats, categories are organized according to the obvious, and navigation with the SIXAXIS is rather easy – D-pad to jump between hotlink selections, analog to free-move the cursor. Mouse-and-keyboard also supported.

Jim does “drill down” to a few nitpicky details, like how download file size and other details aren’t available until you select the title, and how the current build doesn’t allow you to queue up downloads or have them running simultaneously. As with the Xbox 360 Dashboard, Jim hopes Sony will improve on this with future firmware updates.

Slated menu of (US) PSStore offerings at Launch day at the full article. WARNING from source’s author: Actual menu of offerings may change on Launch Day.

Each tick of the second hand must be agonizing by now. US Launch Day, and Gaming Age’s Jim Cordeira already has a sneak peek at the US PlayStation Store. We don’t know if by “US PlayStation Store” he means that there will be country-specific content or something, but we’ll let that pass for now, at least until we have any hard stuff from SCEA/SCEJ/SCEE about that.

Okay, before we get to the slated (may change at Launch Day) offerings for US PS3 owners, let’s get to Jimmy’s impressions of shopping with the PS3. It’s definitely like iTunes, he says, scales very well between SDTV and HDTV formats, categories are organized according to the obvious, and navigation with the SIXAXIS is rather easy – D-pad to jump between hotlink selections, analog to free-move the cursor. Mouse-and-keyboard also supported.

Jim does “drill down” to a few nit-picky details, like how download file size and other details aren’t available until you select the title, and how the current build doesn’t allow you to queue up downloads or have them running simultaneously. As with the Xbox 360 Dashboard, Jim hopes Sony will improve on this with future firmware updates.

Okay, now to the slated menu of Launch Day offerings from the PlayStation Store (actual content may change at Launch Day, please “check back then for updates”). All data here cited from Gaming Age source:

Demos of Downloadable Games:

• Blast Factor – 97 MB – $9.99 normally, $7.99 for a limited time
• Cash Guns Chaos – 326 MB – $9.99

Demos of Full Games:

• Formula One Championship Edition – 678 MB – FREE
• NBA 2007 – 883 MB – FREE – (but the game itself’s cancelled… okay, how does this work?!)
• Resistance: Fall of Man – 865 MB – FREE
• MotorStorm – 456 MB – FREE

Game Trailers:

• Lair (720p, 1080p) – Unknown Size – FREE
• Cash Guns Chaos (720p) – Unknown Size – FREE
• Calling All Cars (720p) – Unknown Size – FREE
• Resistance: Fall of Man (720p) – Unknown Size – FREE
• Warhawk (720p) – Unknown Size – FREE
• MotorStorm Trailer 1 (720p) – Unknown Size – FREE
• MotorStorm Trailer 2 (720p) – Unknown Size – FREE
• Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom Cinematic Trailer (720p) – Unknown Size – FREE
• Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom Gameplay Trailer (720p) – Unknown Size – FREE

Blu-ray Movie Trailers (720p and 1080p):

• Silent Hill (720p, 1080p) – Unknown Size – FREE
• Stealth (720p, 1080p) – Unknown Size – FREE
• Talladega Nights: The Legend of Ricky Bobby (720p, 1080p) – Unknown Size – FREE
• Ultra Violent (720p, 1080p) – Unknown Size – FREE
• Underworld: Evolution (720p, 1080p) – Unknown Size – FREE

So full game demos are FREE (YAY!), but demos of downloadable games aren’t (BOO!)? We’re praying this isn’t what Sony’s planning for future downloadable game demos.