Playstation Store to Receive Revamp Mid-April

If you thought that the current Playstation Store was ugly, then you are in for a treat. The entire store will be revamped and unveiled mid-April, via a firmware update. Although the current store works, I never found it to be visually appealing, and for such a great console, you’d imagine that the built-in store would at least reflect the clean styling of the rest of the PS3s UI.

Well… that’s exactly what the forthcoming update is going to tackle, as you can see in the below screenshot. Nice use of curves and gradients along with a cleaner template make for a store that’s far easier to look at, and one that could very well be fun to navigate.

The downside in all of this? Absolutely no new content will be unveiled between now and the updated store’s launch, which essentially means I have to go weeks before being let down by the fact that Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko still isn’t available as a downloadable title!

Customers will be able to access, browse, shop and download content as usual prior to the store’s re-opening. However, no additional downloadable content will be posted prior to then, including this Thursday, April 3rd, and next Thursday, April 10th. Regularly scheduled content updates will resume with the Store’s re-opening, at which time additional games and game-related items will be added, including the downloadable version of the highly-anticipated exclusive PS3 title Gran Turismo 5 Prologue.

Source: Playstation Blog