People exaggerate a lot when it comes to the PlayStation Network, but there's absolutely no doubt that the service could be better. You may recall that earlier in the year we reported on a movement among users regarding the demand for a Better PSN – well, the initiative hasn't fizzled out. Fans have created a new website in which ideas can be shared, rated, and promoted on social media. It's all very Web 2.0, and should prove a useful tool for Sony if it gets enough use.
At the time of typing, the most demanded PlayStation 4 feature is the ability to appear offline, which strikes us as a minor thing. We like the sound of the second highest rated suggestion, however, which requests improved user profiles capable of displaying wishlists and gameplay statistics. Other highly placed ideas include increased cloud storage space – an absolute must – and login notifications. You can share and submit some of your own ideas across a variety of categories through here.
The big question is: what do you think would make for a better PSN? Think big in the comments section below.
[source betterpsn.com]
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It does force you offline quite a bit, I mean it's not exactly rare is it? To be told, oh sorry you can't play online for some reason, our engineers are investigating. So that should be priority one. The other ideas are pretty good as well.
I rarely ever play online, but I can see how frustrating this is. Why are we paying for online when the service is terrible ? Their main excuse for making us pay for PSN is for better servers. Yet we haven't been getting that. Either make it free again and stop stealing our money or get of your lazy butts and actually fix the dang network.
Notification when someone comes online how hard is it to add this feature seriously!!! Better ps plus service I dont pay to get crap basic kids games I pay to play online and get proper disc Base games just like the ps3 did. Download speeds when downloading need to be improved big time and again I dont pay for somthing to get crap. And what would be good is to be able to see and get more notification on what yh freinds are playing and doin.
External HDD support, ability for custom themes/pictures on the dashboard and folder support and I'm happy. The media player they added was my most requested feature and I'm glad we finally got it.
A better PSN would be great. That said I doubt they do anything. Just sit back and collect all that PS+ money.
Increased download speeds would be #1 for me if they did do anything. Most of the time I don't even get half of the speed that I pay for from my internet provider.
I'll never understand why people add a load of strangers to their friend list and then get all embarrassed or annoyed about being hassled by them. I have two friends with Sony devices and those are the two people on my friend list. I don't want to keep being informed that MastahSefiroth420 has just logged in.
People keep saying that Sony is ripping us off, which I find laughable. Yeah it can be annoying on the RARE occasions it goes down to the point of not being able to play online but, I can't remember the last time that happened.
You can't say that Sony is ripping us off when we get back are money and then some in PlayStation Plus games each month. This month we got "Styx" which normally costs £25 amongst others.
I understand that not everyone is going to be happy with the Instant game collection each month but, im sure their are going to be a few games throughout the year that more than compensate the cost of a yearly subscription that you will enjoy.
I do agree that Sony needs to get the PSN issues ironed out once and for all but, in all honesty, I can't say that its effected me anywhere near as much as it did last year.
On another note, I find it absolutely strange that both my PS4 and XB1 cannot play music CD's.
@Splat This is my biggest problem. I pay for fast internet speeds and I don't think I've ever seen my download speed go half of it. It's crap that my PS3 downloads about twice as fast as my ps4. @WARDIE the psn has gone down alot this year already just thankfully not for long each time like it did before.
Free PlayStation Plus Would make it way better and the restrictions of not being able to talk to people because if their nat type.
I'd like to be able to delete installed data and keep updates so I can reinstall alot quicker. I read u can but I haven't found out how
Put the rest of the PSP and PSOne games on the Vita store!!
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