THE PLAYSTATION NETWORK
Saturday, February 13, 2010
, Posted by gurur@j at 2/13/2010 08:20:00 AM
THE PLAYSTATION NETWORK
The best part about PSN is that it is completely free.
While Microsoft went for a paid revenue servive,sony realised that geeting users online was paramount and all revenue would be made from sales in the playstation store and through advertising.
The PSN has five main categories:sign up,Game,playstation store,Friends and internet Browser.
There are two type of PSN accounts:master accounts and sub accounts.Master accounts can be created by a regestired user of a specefied age or older,and holders accounts can adjust settings such as monthly spending limits or resterictions on voice/video chat for assoiciated sub accounts.Sub accounts can be used by anyone,including minors,and are monitred by the associated master account holder.Sub account holders cannot to pay fpr products and services.
In the playstation store,user can download and busy various content such as full games,add-on content,playable demos,thems and game and movie trailers.The PS store user real-world currency of the country that the user is in;so when you are using the indian PSN,all your transiations will be in rupees.The amount of the money you have been controlled through the virtual 'wallet',to which you can add and delete funds.
In case online transiations scare you dude to privacy concerns,playstation also has network card available that uses can buy in physical form and user the digital currency stored on them.
PLAYSTATION HOME
The idea of online avatars and social networking has really caught on with the advent of virtual worlds such as second Life,seeing their
popularity,sony wanted in on it and created playstation Home-a virtual world thats lets PSN users creat a personalised avatar,have their own apartenment(called persional space),meet other players,etc.
The avatar's clothing and accessories can also be customised using a set of standard items,bought from one of the clothing shop in home's shopping complex,or won items from Home's mini-games that support Home rewards.The user the ability to save up to nine versions of their avatar for quick access at any time.
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