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Story: Premium Themes On PSN

Published: 08/10/2008, 21:31
Category: News
Tags: Themes, XMB
Author: BeeDog

Premium Themes On PSN

It seems Sony has partnered with various publishers to bring premium themes to your local store. As of now, they appear to be up on the North American store, and there’s no word yet when and if they will be available to us Europeans. You can expect 6-10 themes each month, and it also seems they will cost a few pennies. Thanks, but no thanks.

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Comments

colossalblue [ TSA Staff ]
08/10/2008 at 21:43

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“Premium Themes” doesn’t that just mean “We’re going to start charging you for something that you should be able to do for yourself and distribute, freely, over the internet or even in handy little proprietry-format pakages over the PSN to your friends like this was the 21st century and not some closed-party bollocks, after all, we don’t live in communist China”

Yes, I think it does.
Well, you can sick your “Premium Themes” up your “Overpriced Arse” Sony

3shirts

Blimey, feeling a little troll-ish today mate?

colossalblue [ TSA Staff ]

6 days into quitting smoking, it’s bound to get easier…

karlsquell

just dont think too much about it!
its all about your psych gauge…

Gamoc

An MGS4 joke! I love you.

I hope it was an MGS4 joke, anyway. Please say it was?

karlsquell

hell i love you because you got it
i feared nobody would
3shirts
08/10/2008 at 21:44

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If there had always been premium themes and people were used to that then this might work but there are so many great quality freebies around (espeically on ps3themes.net) I can’t see anyone with half a brain going for this… maybe thats why it’s only North America :p

karlsquell

exactly my thought, well your last sentence at least.
i’ve never heard of ps3themes.net. maybe because i dont give much about themes.

3shirts

Sorry, got that address completely wrong anyway, it’s http://www.ps3-themes.com/
You can visit it on the console and download the themes directly
Gamoc
08/10/2008 at 22:01

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This is just stupid. Why would I pay for a theme? What’s that? I wouldn’t? Correct.

Stupid Sony.
cc_star [ TSA Staff ]
08/10/2008 at 22:05

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I’ve never downloaded a free one…

colossalblue [ TSA Staff ]

me neither, I don’t see the point.
nofi [ Site Admin ]
08/10/2008 at 22:06

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I would. They look cool, and won’t be too expensive. I bought loads on the 360.

crow-sama

“gasp” nofi owned the dirty x word

Pixl1983 [ TSA Staff ]

1st rule of single console loyalty. Know your enemy.
fredrikpedersen
08/10/2008 at 22:15

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These are going to be pirated in an instance
BeeDog
08/10/2008 at 22:19

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Don’t forget that artists still can create free themes for you guys. DON’T FORGET IT.

colossalblue [ TSA Staff ]

can they? I had no idea that was possible, in fact the last thing I heard about this was that it wasn’t possible. How?

Gamoc

By downloading the theme creator - go Google it.
Shrui
09/10/2008 at 6:34

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There is a theme compiler prog and from looking around there are already some nifty looking themes available (can be downloaded to a memory key or directly on the PS3 browser).

This is the same of all things on the internet though. If you know where it is you can get stuff for free that people pay a bit for (not counting illegal stuff of course).

There is always a middle man market, bringing this content to the user-not-in-the-know in an easily accessible way. Also the micro transaction way if they price it right, people will spend a dollar or two to try something out. I’ve fallen into that trap on the iTunes store and when there wasn’t much on the PSN store.

So sadly this will likely be successful for the above reasons. That and they say the content will include “beauties on the beach”. If only they could make’em jiggle then they could give the PS3 away for free and live off the theme sales to the teen market.
3shirts
09/10/2008 at 7:32

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The only thing that annoys me about themes is why the Playstation Network icon cannot be themed! EVERY other icon can and for many themes having that blue globey thing with the symbols on it spoils the rest of the theme. Maybe these premium ones WILL change it, that would suck though