Why is the PSN store so slow?

Don't know the answer, but I agree. The old PSN store may have been bland, but it was fast. The new one is slow, choppy, and harder to navigate. What was the point?

- Jer

Weird....I find the new PS store to be pretty fast and much easier to navigate. But if Im browsing through it for like 10 minutes or so, it will get MEGA slow, like to the point where it stops responding to inputs. Overall its still so much better than it used to be though.

I agree, but the nice thing to me is you can now do it all on a PC or tablet without even bothering to fire up your PS3: http://us.playstation.com/psn/playstation-store/

use that, buy, and then just go to your downloads list via the XBM. So much better!

Downloads are a bit slow but the navigation of the simple store page is such low bandwidth there really isnt a good excuse other than inefficient coding. I think Sony is aware that the PS4 has to have as good or a better interface than modern tablets do, the public expects a modern console to be on par with the latest IPad and certainly should be able to do what the IPhone did back in 2007. If a low powered phone cpu from 6 years ago can display wepages quickly, there is no excuse it cant be done on hardware that is 50x more powerful.

There are a wide variety of experiences with PSN speeds. Those without problems tend to think that those of us with problems are wrong, stupid, or simply "doing it wrong." So as a heads up, you might expect to hear that from a few posters in a thread like this.

Anyhow, there are a few things you can do to help slightly with speeds (rebuilding your file system and whatnot through the maintenance menus), but unfortunately it appears that once you have slow PSN speeds, you're stuck with them. The hope is that Sony is rebuilding their network for PS4 and can justify charging more (or more people) for PSN service.

Hmm, I hadn't heard of the "rebuild database" option before. I have no complaints about the performance of the PSN store, but I have a 300 GB drive and it could probably benefit from a cleanup. I may give this a try.

I would agree that the new PSN store UI is both easier to navigate AND responds more slowly. Though my DSL is only 1.5M, perhaps on a faster connection the UI would seem snappier. But my PS3 remote (and my Sharp remote through my smart TV HDMI pass-through) does not work in the new PSN store, worked fine in the old PSN and works fine in the PS3 console UI.

Don't forget how it takes forever just to load it and see the front page... before you get to slowly and sluggishly navigate.

I presume that's by design. Suppose you deleted a game after finishing it and then, many months later, decided to re-download it to play it again. It'd be way too much trouble for the PSN store to keep track of everything that's currently installed on your hard drive.

takes long time to load but once your in the store moves fast and easy to download stuff better for plus, and buying stuff.

That's only for PS+ subscribers, and only for games that you have launched after becoming a PS+ subscriber. Until you launch it, PS+ doesn't know about it.

the PS3 knwos what games you have on your HDD becuse it DISPLAYS the games you have on your HDD -- it just needs to be told to provide that information as a filter.
As far as PSN speeds go -- i have a 150 Mbps download, yet the highest i ever got on the PS3 using a wired connection is 12 Mbps -- the store is choppy and sluggish and crap.

I understand why they decided to go with the more flashy approach compared to the old style but eh it's sluggish and choppy. It also doesn't seem to fit with the rest of the aesthetic of the system either. It seems like a rushed attempt at making a more eye catching store. What's worse is the screen shots from the PS4 UI videos I've seen so far look more like the style of the old PSN store so what's the reason for the total redesign? In the end it doesn't really matter sure, but eh I wish they'd go back to the previous design.