Sony’s finally figured out PlayStation Network name changes and cross-console play, so it’s time to divert our pleading to a different topic altogether: wishlists. For those of you who don’t know, the PlayStation Store does have wishlist functionality – but it’s buried, reserved only for the browser-based web store. You can’t see your wishlist on any of the Japanese giant’s consoles, which is a mind-boggling oversight.
The wishlist that we do have is bad as well. We’re not sure how widespread the issue is, but this author can’t add anything beyond 90 or so items. You can sort your wishlist by price, but it never takes into account discounts, meaning that a game reduced from £49.99 to £0.99 will still display as one of the most expensive items on your list. And while you can browse the wishlists of your friends to some extent, it’s buggy and worthless without a gifting option.
Look, we appreciate that wishlists probably aren’t top of PlayStation’s priority list, but it’s such a staple of online shopping that it’s bizarre the manufacturer hasn’t improved this yet. The wishlist is there to encourage consumer spending, which is something Sony presumably wants to maximise across its platforms. Why then is this still such an oversight? C’mon, it’s such a simple fix – let’s get a proper wishlist on the PS4 and pronto.
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I would have thought implenting a console based wish list would have been a priority over name changes. The ability to gift games should also be added.
The store has never been any good and needs a vast overhaul. I only use it because there is no other choice for digital sales.
Why also not recieve an email everytime that a item in the wishlist have a discount? Like GoG does...
And an alert when an item on your wish list has been reduced - Steam can manage it, why can't Sony?
Agree with all the comments so far. The thing is all of these features will improve spending on the PS Store, which you'd imagine is one of Sony's objectives.
Agree. Also, if you buy something from your wishlist that item should disappear automatically.
Also buying games from a friend wishlist... it seems like a logical thing to do if you want to give them something.
Plus it'll help Sony take more money out of my pockets.
Agree with all the ideas mentioned so far
Yeah a lot of stuff I put on my wishlist is stuff I will look into purchasing after a price drop so an email letting me know an item on my wishlist is in a sale would be very helpful.
Yeah, that’d be much better. Same notifications are good too. And I don’t know why they don’t have a gifting option. It would just be there to help people spend money. It needs to happen.
Agree 100%! It would be nice to have the wish list that you can put on the ps app moved to your Console!
All I want is to be able to create a list of games that I want and for me to get a notification telling me when it's on sale. I don't think that's too much to ask.
The fact that you can't gift a game is just mental. It makes zero sense from a business point of view.
Imagine all the crazy anime fans spamming their friends with their favourite franchise which totes deserves more love.
Completely agree with this article and others’ comments! It may seem like ‘little things’, but life is made up of little things, things that can make a difference either way. A nice, solid structure like a house? That’s made up of little important things called bricks 🧱
Edit: Also, the back arrow of the ps store app rarely works, which is a bit frustrating...
And a better layout, and a frame rate that isn't laggy as sh*t.
Why they ditched the old PS3 store design for the current, god-awful one is beyond me. It was speedy, easy to read the icons, and organized much better. This new one was atrocious from the day they switched it on PS3, and carried it over to PS4. >_>
I would really like the ability to gift games to friends, like you currently can on Steam or Xbox.
While I agree for wishlists. Isn't this article more of "Soapbox" rather then news?
"but this author can’t add anything beyond 90 or so items"
I assumed it was a thing with wishlists after I hit the 200 cap on Switch eShop. Granted, 200 is certainly not 90 either.
I'm not bothered much by the wishlist and (read: probably because) I don't use it often, but not being able to access it on the consoles at all seems quite odd indeed. Even 3DS has the feature. I'm indifferent to gifting, though - the one time I've needed the function myself so far (on GOG), the game in question turned out to be an exception. I couldn't even tick the box during checkout. XD
@EVIL-C I do wish they used something loading visibly rather than all these scripts and whatnot that have you stare at a page for seconds and wonder if this pause is your cue to retry unregistered input or your risk of, say, going back several pages instead of one (if not outright ending up all the way back on Chrome's home page). Although nowadays it's never easy to tell what part of these hijinks is fancy site layout and what part is software acting up on your end.
The PS4 storefront via the console sucks. I've only accessed it a handful of times.
Whenever I bought anything digitally on PS4, I did so via the much more intuitively designed web store.
also the baskets on the web store and console store are different
Me and my friends have always said it was so dumb that it wasn't there.
Sony needs steam like notification for discount, it should send us email if there are games that's discounted on our wishlist.
i think if you've got 90 (or 200) games on your wishlist, you should probably prioritise a bit more.
I hope they do add a wishlist to the ps4 as trying to refund some games sometimes can be really hard. You can make a wishlist online but not on the psn ps4 store.
Even the nintendo wii u had a wishlist so i am shore sony can do it lol
The PSN store layout is a disgraceful mess and it's shockingly slow, especially when using the PS4 to attempt navigation.
I'm mad for list-making so I'd love a decent PSN wishlist! Atm I have a Kindle doc and use Amazon for my visual games wishlist, but rarely buy games from there because PSN is always having sales and the UK has an abundance of reliable small game-selling sites which offer better reductions as well as lower prices on preorders than Amazon, so often wished my PS4 had an easy to use wishlist function.
Amazing article. You were that close from hitting the Article of 2018 I wish it was about Nintendo. They dont even have a wishlist, you can't have all items in one cart.
By the way: sony wishlist is l8mited to 100 items! Also, why are we having trouble buying free games through the website with error msgs popping the whole time!?
A search function that gives good results and allows you a proper filter to whittle the 500+ results with avatars to the 20 or so games on a specific system. Also a cart that syncs between platforms. If we got that the store would be so 2010 and it'd be great
@MistressTonberry Which small game-selling sites do you mean? There are ones where I can get cheaper indie titles than on the store?
@get2sammyb Actually you can add up to 99 (not 90). Yes, I agree as I wish I can add more titles to my wish -list.
@NeoTokyo404 I usually use gamecollection, base, or simplygames depending, and sometimes shopto (and all have a base in the UK so delivery is free here). I use the pricespy UK site to compare. Preorders aren't super cheap, but usually at least £5 cheaper than Amazon and often more in my experience, and the prices of games tend to drop faster there than on Amazon and they send sales notification PR emails if you want them...though I'm not saying it's bargain basement, just generally better deals for the most part than Amazon (except during Prime Day and BF which are massive for Amazon of course) 😀
Edit: PSN has some epic sales too - I get lots of stuff from there when it's dropped enough, but sometimes I want a hardcopy.
@MistressTonberry Thank you so much for the detailed information. That'll be really handy in buying physical copies, especially as I'm from the UK too. Regarding digital games, is there any way to buy cheaper copies than on the PSN store? I know that Humble Bundle sometimes does have PS4 bundles, and of course those end up being way cheaper. I'm very new to the PS4, but for example, I'm currently looking to buy Inside and Hyper Light Drifter, and they are really cheap on PSN at the minute, but I was wondering if I could get digital games even cheaper now and in the future, or if I could even get cheap physical copies of indies - which of course you've given me some helpful links towards.
Discount alert as @whizzkidd said! And the Store is kinda slow to navigate...
@NeoTokyo404 No worries - glad I could help, I love a good bargain! I envy you being new to PS4 as you probably have a lot of great PS exclusives yet to play! You may already know about https://psprices.com/region-gb/index which lets you know the cheapest price a digital game has ever been in a PSN sale on UK's PS store. I don't know about getting codes from other sites for use in the PS store, but @get2sammyb or one of the other Push Square journalists(sorry, I'm good with names but bad at remembering handles) probably know one way or the other 😀
@NeoTokyo404 Keep an eye out for sales is the best way to get digital games cheap. There's usually new sales on the PS Store every week.
@MistressTonberry @get2sammyb Yeah, I thought the PSN store was probably the best way. Thanks for your help. A wishlist really is a completely baffling omission - like the article states. I've been keeping tabs of titles I'd like to purchase in a Notepad file... haha
@NeoTokyo404 Just a heads up, the best PSN sales are almost upon us - Black Friday period sale and then the post-Xmas sale (especially latter one) tend to offer great discounts on AAA fare, and then there's the yearly Big in Japan sale (was in July 2017 and started end April this year I think), which is great if you like niche-in-the-West Japanese games. As I said, you can use psprices UK site to see the lowest a game has been on PSN store...haha and then record it on your doc like I do! ...indie titles tend to have good sales all year round btw.
@Sevein @mightyquin @whizzkidd @hotukdeals Agreed with all of your ideas.
I'd love to see ability to gift games to friends, buy games for friends, get emails when games drop in price, and also games being auto removed from wishlist after you've bought them/been gifted them.
I never see the wishlist at all...is that when you highlight the thumb on a game page?
I actually use the ‘Wanted’ in the Games Collection section from PushSquare as my own personal wish list!
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