PSN Store Update - 1/22

[Queasy]

Link - Skate 2 DLC = Paying $5 because you're lazy.

Price Update

Brain Challenge Expansion Pack (now $2.99)

Add-on Game Content

BUZZ! Quiz TV American Culture Pack ($5.99)
Think you know everything about living in the USA? Test your knowledge with this new BUZZ! Quiz TV quiz pack that features over 500 new questions about American culture to play in any of your favorite BUZZ! Quiz TV game modes. Download this quiz pack today and turn your party into the ultimate trivia showdown. Challenge your friends and family with new questions and ?Show ?em Your Trivia!?
File size: 243 MB

NARUTO: Ultimate Ninja STORM Pack 7 (free)
Download Storm Pack 7 and unleash the legendary Sound Ninja Jirobo as your support character in battle. The Storm Pack 7 also contains new Ultimate Mission to engage!
File size: 100 KB

Skate 2 Time Is Money Pack ($4.99)
If you are busy, or just plain lazy, ?Time is Money? will unlock all locations, skaters and gear that can be earned by playing through Skate 2?s career and online modes.
File size: 3.59 MB

Guitar Hero World Tour
For all song credits please visit www.guitarhero.com.

* ?Tomorrow? by Silverchair ($1.99)
* ?Outtathaway!? by The Vines ($1.99)
* ?Dimension? by Wolfmother ($1.99)
* Aussie Track Pack ($5.49) - Downloadable Track Pack for Guitar Hero World Tour featuring ?Tomorrow? by Silverchair, ?Dimension? by Wolfmother, and ?Outtathaway!? by The Vines. Please Note: Many songs are available both as singles and as part of a Track Pack, so please carefully consider your purchases before downloading.

File sizes: 33 MB - 44 MB (singles), 119 MB (track pack)


Rock Band
Build your Rock Band library by purchasing these song game tracks. For song credits, visit www.RockBand.com.

* ?Feed the Tree? - Belly ($1.99)
* ?I Stand Alone? - Godsmack ($1.99)
* ?Typical? - Mute Math ($1.99)
* ?War Zone? - Rob Zombie ($1.99)
* ?Wind Me Up? - Ghost Hounds ($1.99)
* ?Space Cowboy? - Steve Miller Band ($1.99)
* ?Take the Money and Run? - Steve Miller Band ($1.99)
* ?The Joker? - Steve Miller Band ($1.99)
* Steve Miller Band Track Pack 01 ($5.49) - Build your Rock Band library by purchasing this song game track pack: Steve Miller Band Pack 01. This pack includes: ?Take the Money and Run,? ?The Joker,? and ?Space Cowboy? by Steve Miller Band.

File sizes: 21 MB - 34 MB (singles) 116 MB - 79 MB (track pack)

Game Demos (free)

WipEout HD
It was there back at the beginning and now it?s taking the franchise into the future: WipEout HD is set to deliver 1080p High Definition visuals running at a breathtaking 60-frames-per-second. WipEout HD features a selection of the best tracks taken from previous versions of the franchise, meticulously crafted and fully reworked to showcase the processing power of PS3 system. Available exclusively on the PlayStation Network.
File size: 1.02 GB

F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin Demo
Download the demo today and play highlights from F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin. A routine mission turns into a fight for survival when an explosion of unknown origin decimates the city and unleashes the wrath of Alma Wade, whose terrifying power threatens to surge out of control unless Special Forces Sgt. Michael Becket and his squad can find a way to destroy her.
File size: 685 MB

Game Videos (free)

Resistance: Retribution Story Trailer
File size: 68 MB (HD) 111 MB (1080)

Lords of the Rings Conquest: Conquest Good to be Good Trailer
File size: 46 MB (HD)

Mirror?s Edge DLC Trailer
File size: 33 MB (HD)

Eat Lead Teaser Trailer
File size: 82 MB (HD)

Ski-Doo Snowmobile Challenge
File size: 55 MB (HD)
Movie and Blu-ray Disc Trailers (free)

The X-Files: I Want to Believe: ?Reinstated? Featurette
File size: 55 MB (SD)

Max Payne: Script to Screen Featurette
File size: 34 MB (SD)

Horton Hears a Who: Anatomy of a Scene Featurette
File size: 84 MB (SD)

PlayStation Store for PSP
Game Videos (free)

Resistance: Retribution Story Trailer (also available from PS3 Store)
File size: 12 MB

PSP Themes

* Kicks PSP Theme ($0.99) (PS3 Kicks Theme also available from PS3 Store)
File size: 172 KB

* PSP Premium Themes (x18) (Various; $0.99/$1.49) (also available from PS3 Store)
File sizes: 231 KB - 546 KB

 

[blurredvision]

Sweet! A Wipeout HD demo, I'm definitely downloading it. $20 is too much for me to pay for the game and possibly not like it.

 

[sswingle]

You won't be disappointed with wipeout HD. I have been playing it for a while now.

 

[Dari]

I'm not sure why they wait months after a release to put up a free demo. Why not just do it a couple of weeks later considering all those that wanted to buy it already have and those that were waiting for a demo would've forgotten about it by now?

SONY != SMART

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: Dari
I'm not sure why they wait months after a release to put up a free demo. Why not just do it a couple of weeks later considering all those that wanted to buy it already have and those that were waiting for a demo would've forgotten about it by now?

SONY != SMART

I don't remember where I read the article but, a Sony exec said in an interview not too long ago that they see better sales from titles that only have videos and screenshots available than from titles that have demos available.

The thought basically being, the consumer tries a demo and and decides that they either don't like the game or the demo satisfies their desire to play the game enough and they end up not purchasing the game.

 

[Dari]

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: Dari
I'm not sure why they wait months after a release to put up a free demo. Why not just do it a couple of weeks later considering all those that wanted to buy it already have and those that were waiting for a demo would've forgotten about it by now?

SONY != SMART

I don't remember where I read the article but, a Sony exec said in an interview not too long ago that they see better sales from titles that only have videos and screenshots available than from titles that have demos available.

The thought basically being, the consumer tries a demo and and decides that they either don't like the game or the demo satisfies their desire to play the game enough and they end up not purchasing the game.

Well, can't argue with research. But if people are easily fooled by pretty pictures and videos, then they deserve what they get.

 

[R Nilla]

It's nice they finally have a US WipEout HD demo. I just went ahead and grabbed it from the UK PSN Store a while back. And no, I haven't purchased it yet, but I definitely would never purchase it without ever playing a demo.

 

[blurredvision]

Ya, putting out a demo is such a gamble. You'll either turn people off previous hype and cause them to not buy it when they originally would have, or you really impress people and end up with more sales simply because you put out the demo.