Further to the emails that went out over the weekend to PlayStation Network subscribers that said accounts would be renamed to Sony Entertainment Network accounts, Sony have confirmed (to Eurogamer) that it’s wider reaching than just accounts.
Indeed, despite our article to the contrary, it’s not just PlayStation Network accounts that will be changed, but “the entire PSN platform will become Sony Entertainment Network.”
A spokesperson for Sony confirmed to the site that the PSN being changed to SEN will make it “clearer and easier” for people to associate everything that Sony does. We’re also hearing a firmware update will make some of these changes apply to PlayStation 3 in the near future.
Which is about as concrete as it possibly could be.
Update: Sony has again contacted Eurogamer to explain that they missed out a word in their original clarfication. That word was “account”, which completely reverses the meaning of the statement they made earlier.
The updated Sony statement now reads “It’s just an account name change and will be called SEN from now on. Should make it clearer and easier for people to associate the service with all Sony products and have one log-in.”
Which confirms what we originally assumed over the weekend. If we’d made this up, nobody would have believed us. Bizarre.
TSBonyman
I don’t mind just as long as they sort out the current issues and don’t introduce more problems.
colmshan1990
But will they unify all the divisions of SCE into one?
Preferably not controlled by SCEE?
yogdog
Bad move, imo, due to the brand name but we’ll see how it goes.
Jas-n
*Whistling kettle* *POP*
Mike
:D
Mike
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFZKgzg8Dq8&feature=related
Jas-n
:D.
I’m waiting for my own confirmation, as it still seems silly, and EuroGamers quote half backs up my story.
Alone though, you have to admit I made some exceptional points as to why it might not happen.
Aspects of the PSN will remain PlayStation only features (PS+, Trophies & Friends as well as the communication media between PlayStations), so makes sense for the brand to remain.
Mike
I agree with what you wrote and I don’t see why they can’t just rename your PSN wallet account to SEN and then leave the PSN name to allow you to use your SEN wallet to purchase items from PSN, Music Unlimited etc.
Will this mean the PS Store gets renamed too? I don’t get why they don’t just use a system like Apple’s and have an Apple ID and use it for all of their services.
bluetemplar
Having a Sony Entertainment Network and Playstation Network would seem a bit confusing I think, having a unified Sony Entertainment Network, of which the Playstation Store is a part seems a much more sensible idea.
cc_star
Update to the source article is that Sony’s clarification was wrong, it is just an account name change & not a name change of the whole network
colmshan1990
So is Jas-n right, or was J-SEN wrong?
I don’t really know anymore…
Mike
Lol – this is turning into a soap opera. Will it won’t it?!
gazzagb
Not doubt SCEE will still find some way of screwing up the transition.
tonyyeb
It will be 2 months after the ROW and somehow we will have to pay for it and lose functionality…
Omac_brother
Seems to make sense. Sony unifying its entire network so that TV’s, Phones, Playstations etc all have a singular network.
Graham
Does this mean that all ps3 and vita boxes will have Sony entertainment network on the top right instead of playstation network??? If so I don’t like that. I hate change haha :)
JBoo
I like the word – ‘PlayStation’ It feels me with eXcitement :P & i would stick the word ‘PlayStation’ in front of EVERY word in the World(well apart from anything MicroSoft that is) :D
nemesisND1derboy
…right.
MayContainEvil
You’re what we would call a PlayStationTwat.
BIGAL-1992
Jboo, I am starting to run out of patience with you and I already know your behaviour isn’t limited to TSA. I’ll say this once, and once only; grow up or get out. Your choice.
On topic, it’ll be interesting to see how this develops. I don’t really know how this’ll work out, but as long as the overall game experience that PSN provides isn’t hampered, then I’ll be happy.
The Lone Steven
Please stop with this, as it comes across as fanboyish and fanboys are generally not tolorated around here. And some of us are starting to get sick and tired of it. So, please stop before you end up causing a major incident otherwise i think Adam will be forced to intervene.
@maycontainevil, Insults aimed at members are NEVER tolorated on TSA. It was unesseccary. Yes, Jboo was being a big fanboy but insulting him is not the way to go about it. If you think you can’t respond to him in a civil fashion then contact a community team member about his behaviour either via PM or the TSAcom twitter account. Remeber, being respectful is one of TSA’s rules. :)
Sympozium
Yeah, dood…. no one here tolerates it, that stuff is simply immature and annoying, your hardly contributing to the site with this.
Baka..
MayContainEvil
I’d have preferred if they just changed the account name like Jas-n put forth. I like the word PlayStation, happy memories and all that.
Oh well. Provided they don’t name the PS4 the Sony Entertainment Device (SED) then I’m still happy.
IAmJacksMedullaOblongata
Sony Entertainment Xperience.
Yep – I went there.
MayContainEvil
Nicely done ;)
Sony should definitely move into the ‘stimulation’ market.
Did the Move have a vibrate function?
BIGAL-1992
I’d sign up to that.
Bankzy108
Maybe if the whole of PSN is renamed SEN then it will become a universal publish of the store update meaning everyone gets the content at the same time on a Tuesday and no more SCEE is rubbish stuff? I can hope…right?