I was looking through the PS3 Video Store over the weekend in hopes to rent a movie instead of driving out to BlockBuster. Specifically, I wanted to rent 21. I knew it was on the store, so it didn’t take long to find it. To my astonishment, it’s not available as a rental. You can only purchase the movie for $14.99. Wait, what?
If a movie is on the store for purchase, there’s no reason whatsoever to exclude a rental option. Having the ability to buy the movie is cool, but every single movie on the Video Store should be available to ren. I’d never seen 21 and wasn’t about to shell out $15 just to watch it once.
I know the Video Store is in its infancy and Sony will be expanding things as time goes on, but this one just seems pretty obvious. If there was a rental option for 21, I would have grabbed it. Since there wasn’t, my money went elsewhere (namely my local BlockBuster for the Blu-Ray rental). Hopefully Sony addresses this sooner than later if they want to make more money from the Video Store.
Sony dropped a metric ton of content on the Video Store this week. A ton of TV shows and a couple movies were added. Here’s what you can spend some cash on:
TV Shows
Everest: Beyond the Limit
Family Guy
Gene Simmons: Family Jewels
How I Met Your Mother
It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia
LA Ink
Land Of The Giants
Miami Ink
My Name is Earl
Mythbusters
Prison Break
The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack
Trinity Blood
Weaponology
Xam’d: Lost Memories (There’s a brand new episode every Tuesday!)
This user claims that he just got his console back from MS and it sounds like a motorboat. I’m not calling shenanigans yet, but this is insanely loud. We all know these things are far from perfect. Listen to this. There is no way he can play games with this in the background.
Wow, lots of news on the PS3 today. Sony had a presentation in Tokyo where they discussed plans for the upcoming fiscal year. Movie store is coming this summer in the US, Life with PlayStation is coming, the PlayStation Store is coming to the PSP. Wow.
I’m guessing we’ll hear a lot more about all of these services at E3, especially the video store. It’s already summer, so I would guess we’ll see a launch right around or shortly after E3 with the v2.40 firmware update.
You can check out Kaz Hirai’s full presentation in PDF form here. It’s a good read if you want to know what’s going on with the PlayStation brand.
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