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Discussion on: Playstation Store redesign – the biggest UX Failure of 2020

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Manoel Soares • Edited

I'm so glad someone addressed this! This has been bothering me for a long time!
Not only is the store now an eyesore (this white background is awful, the old dark blue background is so much prettier and easier on the eyes), now you can no longer add any filters to your search!
As if all the problems you mentioned weren't enough, now you can't sort out what you're looking for because you have no filters! Now you can at least see the games' titles, though, but that's not nearly enough!
And to make matters worse, the PS4 Store that used to run smoothly and without any problems now is nothing like it used to be. Yeah, there are still trailers and screenshots, but the store practically freezes when you open them! They take ages to load and sometimes won't load at all! And this is not an internet speed problem, my connection is really fast! It seems like they pulled all this crap just to make you give the PS4 up and force you into buying the PS5 (which I suppose has a better performance on the store).
As for the wishlist, there is a better alternative, the site PSPrices (now that I think about it, PSPrices is actually an alternative to the whole PS Store, since you can still see screenshots and watch trailers there!) Not only can you keep track of your favorite games, you can also keep track of their prices, you can see what was the lowest price a game had wait for a sale to get a better deal and choose to receive notification by email! Sometimes the prices are a little different than on the PS Store, so it's good to double-check it (that only happened once, though), but that's about it.