PlayStation Network

PlayStation Network (or PSN ) is the name of the service In line of the PlayStation 3 of Sony. It allows to play in network, to reach the online shop PlayStation Store and various departments of communication. With the Spring 2008, it must accommodate the project Home, a virtual Univers conceived as the angular stone of the PlayStation community.

Online game

See also: List of plays PlayStation 3

A certain number of titles PlayStation 3 propose modes of Online game. There is, like Resistance: Fall off Man , which can accommodate to 40 players simultaneously. The online game is free for the majority of the plays. Certain plays, in particular MMORPG S, could however require a paying subscription.

PlayStation Blind

See also: List of downloadable PlayStation plays

PlayStation Store is an online shop which makes it possible to download various free or paying contents. PlayStation Store is divided into several areas: the Japan, the North America, the Europe, the Asia. The contents can vary according to these areas. One finds there:

  • Of the original plays with small budget, specifically developed for the service. This initiative, called E-Distribution (EDI), aims at making it possible independent developers to distribute their plays without having to pass by the circuit of traditional sale. Sony announced to want to privilege quality rather than the quantity.
  • Of conversions of recent plays, adapted PSP or of Terminal of arcade.
  • Of the plays PSone for the PlayStation 3 or PSP. It should be noted that with the difference of the PSOne plays on support CD-ROM, these plays downloadable are not zones.
  • Of traditional of the Play of arcade or old generations of consoles. Sony made an agreement with Midway in order to distribute of old plays of Borne of arcade and with the editor SNK Playmore with an aim of proposing plays Neo Geo.
  • Of the additional contents for the plays: updates, extensions (levels, objects, weapons…), etc
  • Of the playable demos, the Trailer S of plays or films to come to the format Blu-ray and in Cinema.
To buy paying contents on PlayStation Blind, the user must feed a virtual bank account with his Bank card. A Parental control can be exerted on this account: limitation of the maximum expenditure, restriction according to the contents,… All the prices of PlayStation Store are posted in the real currency. In Europe, plays PSN are sold between 2.99€ and 29.99€.

PlayStation Home

See also: PlayStation Home

The PlayStation Home (or Home) is a project of virtual universe Community which is predestined to become the privileged place of meeting and exchange of the PlayStation community. It must make it possible to the users to be found in an environment in 3D made up of public spaces and deprived in order to discuss, divide multimedia contents, to play, get information, etc the phase of Beta-test began in April 2007 with a startup envisaged with the Printemps 2008. The software will be distributed free on the PlayStation Store.

Departments of communication

A whole of departments of communication is at the disposal of the community of PlayStation players. The users can discuss during the parts, be informed when a friend connects himself, to be sent messages texts, files multi-media, to take part in cats audio or video, etc

Navigation Internet

Thanks to its Navigator Internet, PlayStation 3 allows of surfer on the fabric. Certain sites of plays are especially optimized for the navigator of the console.

Others

  • the access to PlayStation Network is free. It requires simply a connection High banc or more rapid.
  • the creation of a principal account is necessary in order to reach PlayStation Network. It is possible to create accounts associated for the other users with the system. The identifier associated with the account is universal.

External bond

  • Official site

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