PlayStation Network Gets ‘Connect’ed
PlayStation Network users have been longing a more connected experience. Is Sony finally bringing us that ability to ‘Connect’? A certain website, owned by SCEA suggests just that…
A simple whois lookup of the website PSN-Connect.com, returns the results that SCEA owns the domain. Sure this could mean nothing at all, especially considering that according to the same whois lookup, Sony Computer Entertainment of America owns a total of “about 441 domains”.
So what makes this PSN-Connect domain so special? Sony could have just purchased the domain to make sure they own the right to anything that could be associated with their trademarks. But that doesn’t seem to be the case.
All whois lookup’s give you first and foremost the website’s title. Which reads ‘Welcome to PSN-Connect”. Webpages aren’t given a title if there is nothing found on the server. For example, our recent finding of Sony San Diego owning playstationcloud.com, the page title turns up a “The page cannot be found” as the title.
There is more evidence that PSN-Connect is some sort of website/service that Sony is prepping for PSN users. This domain, is currently hosted on a dedicated server. That means this domain, is on a server all by it’s lonesome, which likely means this bad boy is expected to get some decent traffic. Not something a “parked” domain name would need.
When I first heard PSN-Connect, I thought instantly of Sony’s now defunct music-download service. However this could be anything from a music service, to a social networking service for the PlayStation Network. Or it could be merely a way to access your PSN account via the web, and message friends, etc.
Whatever it is, it’s definitely something as SCEA has invested some time, and money into it. The domain was registered a couple months ago in early April, so maybe it still needs more of that time, and money to finally come to fruition.
Thanks to Romo12 for the tip!
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July 13th, 2009 at 3:44 PM
Nice, wonder what it’s going to be in the end… Sounds more like a Social Networking thing, or maybe just offering a better experience all around on the PSN.
Seems like we’ll have to wait this out and see if anything comes around.
July 13th, 2009 at 4:25 PM
Could be a way to provide much wanted features.
July 13th, 2009 at 4:41 PM
Interesting. Hopefully this will come into fruition and initiate a new service.
July 13th, 2009 at 4:52 PM
good news.
July 13th, 2009 at 5:03 PM
i hope for a place to keep access your PSN friends list, chat, send messages, trophy tracking for sigs
Stuff like that
July 13th, 2009 at 5:05 PM
Cool original news, thanks Sev!
July 13th, 2009 at 7:28 PM
If it’s somehow … for the lack of a better word … connected to the old PSP Connect service, it will be a site where you can download free and paid music and music videos, teasers, trailers, and behind the scene videos of upcoming games and movies. Maybe they fully integrate the PSN Store this time around so you could queue up downloads like on the Xbox360 Marketplace integration, or even send them directly to a Remote Play ready PS3, just like you could with the PSP.
July 14th, 2009 at 4:25 AM
Damn that’s what we call investigative video game journalism.
I would have expected a place like PS3fanboy to post “Well the domain PSN-Connect is registered. Now what Sony connection features would you like to bombard our post with? Wishful thoughts below! Maybe we’ll FINALLY get our Xgame voice chat”
I don’t read PS3fanboy much… I guess it’s joystick.ps3.something or another but I don’t like a lot of their writers.
July 14th, 2009 at 4:32 AM
They better give us more,we’ve been demanding things like this for awhile.Give us new avatars too,now!
July 14th, 2009 at 3:02 PM
Sweet, I hope its a way to connect to PSN via PC like you say
That’d be great to be at school and finally be able to message my friends.
July 15th, 2009 at 4:42 AM
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