PSN Copy & Paste From Xbox?
I question my own sanity and then realise it should be Sony's I'm questioning.Published 07/11/2009 at 1:42 by colossalblue
Picture the scene: It’s late on a Friday evening, I’ve spent the afternoon talking sarcastically over trailers for games in an effort to amuse people. There may or may not have been some alcoholic beverages imbibed.
So I thought to myself that it would be a good idea to have a look on the PSN for some high quality game videos to use in some as-yet unimagined video production. I found a little title called Nier which I had heard of briefly during E3 but had since slipped out of memory. So I hit the little button to download said video and when the information screen popped up I thought I’d have a little read, just to whet my appetite.
Imagine my surprise when I read the following sentence (which is actually just a part of a weirdly long sentence full of commas where it should have full stops), right there on the PlayStation Network Store.
Nier will truly be Square Enix’s arrival on the 360
I think I may have actually done a comedy double-take. I definitely re-read the sentence three or four times to try to work out the context because I was sure that I must be misunderstanding it. I don’t think I am though, it looks to me like whoever enters the information text for this video copied and pasted the text directly from… well, I don’t know where because at the time of writing I can’t seem to find that particular line of text anywhere.
Here’s some photos I grabbed with my phone. More to prove to myself that I wasn’t hallucinating really…
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C_S15 | 07/11/2009 01:45
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NFS Shift had cross platform Arcade/PSN store compatibility(ish). Why not trailers?!
kassatsu | 07/11/2009 01:51
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Not the first time. 3rd Parties seem to do this all the time.
colossalblue | 07/11/2009 01:57
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really? I was amazed at the fundamental stupidity involved in letting that appear on on the PSN. It’s like Like McDonalds telling you that the Coke in Burger King is delicious. Sure McD’s sell Coke too but why talk about your biggest (only) competitor in space you’re paying for?
I’ve since searched for it a bit more and found a reference to this error by a Kotaku commenter and a couple of comments at the PS Blog but nothing else so it’s not even lifted from Xbox.com… in fact, I couldn’t find the video on the XBL Marketplace at all. It’s just weird.
davidjmclare | 07/11/2009 02:05
always on easy
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does burger king have coke? i thought pepsi… i guess the point stands either way but lets get this cleared up!
kassatsu | 07/11/2009 03:46
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I am trying to find a picture I took and put on GAF. It was from the HK Store.
kassatsu | 07/11/2009 03:50
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Found it!
http://i33.tinypic.com/296ozuw.jpg
lol
Quinlank | 07/11/2009 02:27
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I pointed this out yesterday!
Seems to be just laziness on Square-Enix’s part putting together a description, but even so, you’d have thought whoever at Sony puts these up on the store would hae caught it before posting it. Come to that, is it even the ‘correct’ version of Nier on the video? I know the PS3 and 360 get two different versions of it, but I don’t know which is which so can’t be sure.
hazelam | 07/11/2009 13:52
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it shows ps3 at the end, don’t remember it showing anything about the xbox.
i don’t think you can blame square, the video seems to be the ps3 version, it’s obviously scee’s fault, the us store doesn’t have this error, scee must have just copied the text from somewhere without checking it.
something they do a lot of.
a inferior race | 07/11/2009 03:11
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Own goal!
gurglesletch | 07/11/2009 03:31
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WOW thats fail
Adiemus | 07/11/2009 04:20
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youd think a proof read would of been done or just a simple autocorrect from ‘360′ to ‘PS3′ liek in word! but nooooo!
KwietStorm | 07/11/2009 06:30
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That’s just bad/lazy. It actually seems like this is happening with higher frequency lately.
jacklum | 07/11/2009 07:42
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Maybe it’s a desperate attempt to generate some news regarding Nier.
skibadee | 08/11/2009 00:54
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i bet
Mutt | 07/11/2009 08:26
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There’s usually an error most updates, I’ve seen stuff like “this download takes up XXXXMB” the store generally seems to be done very sloppily.
Oh and can anyone actually read anything with the current R&C backdrop on the PSN store? I find it very hard to read with the transparent background.
Zuler | 07/11/2009 09:13
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What’s even more odd is that Nier isn’t actually a multiplatform title. There will be two Nier games, one for PS3 and one for the 360, each of them will have different characters and a partially different story, but they’ll both be essentially the same game.
hazelam | 07/11/2009 09:29
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worth pointing out that the us store doesn’t have this little slip up.
just the eu store then.
but then from the people who sold a demo for 8 quid, put a demo up that needed unreleased firmware to even work and once even put up the wrong region’s dlc, nothing surprises me anymore when it comes to how useless scee are proving themselves to be.
sure something like this isn’t major, but then this is just a symptom of the real problem, seems every week they do something wrong with the store, and it always takes them weeks to fix it.
cc_star | 07/11/2009 09:32
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SCEE keep telling us they have to wait for stuff to be submitted to them for approval so regardless of what was sent to them, it is them who approve and upload.
mynameisblair | 07/11/2009 10:13
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Seems like silly lazy work to get the store update out early.
Like when my teacher copied and pasted my friends report onto mines..
hazelam | 07/11/2009 13:47
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seems to me that the scee store team don’t do anything all week then it’s a last minute panic to get everything ready starting thursday morning.
then they go home, that’s why it always takes at least a week to get anything on the store fixed, though more often than not two or three weeks.
DistantHoller | 07/11/2009 10:14
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The latest Battlefield BC2 gameplay video on the PSN store show it´s the 360 version they are playing. Red B blue X etc.
gazzagb | 07/11/2009 13:08
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That happens with most gameplay trailers for some reason.
matty | 09/11/2009 00:43
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its both it shows R1 and o as well
BIGAL-1992 | 07/11/2009 11:08
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Whoops!