SCEE gets a lot of stick for delaying downloadable games that release on-time in North America. One example is Trine 2, which is still yet to launch in Europe despite hitting the US around Christmas time.
As part of today’s PlayStation Store update, Sony’s Jawad Ashraf has attempted to shed a little light on exactly what holds up the European releases of anticipated games:
Licensing, market and a host of other business and non-business decisions all play a part. What is often forgotten is the EU consists of not just one or two countries – it includes a variety, meaning a lot more localising must be done. Certain games also retain licenses only in certain territories or have expired rights. There’s generally so many factors that can often lead to games being delayed or totally cancelled for specific regions, and sometimes this cannot be helped.
Ashraf continued that the publisher can’t simply share details about when games pass the QA process in Europe because this is “highly confidential information”.
Of course it still doesn’t clear up how XBOX manages to pull off worldwide digital releases so seamlessly. Indeed, Trine 2 is currently available in Europe on Microsoft’s platform and has been for months.
We don’t envy the challenges that face SCEE, but we’re not convinced this statement will quell the criticisms coming from impatient fans.
[source blog.eu.playstation.com]
Comments 1
I don't know about the UK/EU but the biggest complaint in the US is the store not having a set update time. My understanding is that the Xbox updates at a set time, and I know the Wii updates at noon, maybe 1 now. The PSN updates between 5 and midnight, that's a 7 hour window. There's really no excuse for that. And to make matters worse Grace Chen or her lackeys don't give us a heads up on when the store will update. I think it would be a very very simple matter for somebody there on their lunch or cigarette break to blog/tweet/post whatever about what time the store will update, or at the very least post a notice when the store will be very very late. Which happens alot, but not enough for them to just set the time late, b/c this week it updated early again. They may have an excuse for regional differences, bu there is no excuse for people not getting their work done on time, and even less excuse for the lack of communication.
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