SCEE on Missing PSN Titles

Anyone that has had a look at store updates from other regions such as SCEA and SCEJ and compared them to what SCEE gets, will be all to familiar with the fact we often have to wait longer for content, sometimes we don’t get it at all.

BritishGaming got in contact with developers, publishers and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe to find the reason behind the missing titles.

All the publishers they spoke to echoed the same remark, pointing blame at Sony for the independently run retail hubs in each of the Playstation Store’s regions.

“Sony’s process for getting titles on PSN varies in North America, Europe, Japan and the rest of Asia”, said Joel De Young, COO of Hothead Games, the Canadian Developers behind Penny Arcade’s episodic RPG. Capcom, when quizzed about Street Fighter’s appearance on the PSN, told us “that’s a question better directed at the console manufacturers themselves”.

Out of the 78 PSN Originals on the American Store, 65 of them have made their way to the European shop. Disregarding obvious American exclusives, such as NFL Score Charts and games based on American TV Shows, only nine games are still exclusive to the US PSN, BritishGaming reports.

he quantity, however, is far outweighed by the quality of the missing games. Q Entrainment’s Lumines Supernova joins Penny Arcade and Street Fighter as much anticipated titles. The full list is as follows:

Cash Guns Chaos
Cuboid
Lumines Supernova
Penny Arcade Adventures: Episode One and Two
PowerUp Forever
SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Confrontation
Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars

When BritishGaming spoke to SCEE’s PSN PR Manager about the subject, he replied with “this has been an ongoing issue and we’re doing our best to resolve it.”

Fortunately, Hothead enthusiastically told us “Episode One of the Penny Arcade series should be released in Europe in a matter of days” and Battle-Cars is set for Thursday’s update. Capcom disappointingly couldn’t offer the same good news, telling us that “[We] have no updates on HD Remix’s future presence on the [European] PSN store, sorry.”

Source; BritishGaming

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