The PlayStation network experience has become horrifically bad for myself and others I know here in Germany. Just constant “please wait” when trying to do many actions. Really frustrating.
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I don’t think speed is the issue. It’s routing to Sony’s servers. I have gigabit download and half that for upload. It’s pretty quick and PS5 downloads are fast but all the other stuff is very very slow.
Hey John. I'm also from Germany and Deutsche Telekom Fibre customer. I had the same issues recently with difficulties connecting my Playstation Portal to my PS5 within my own network. However, after manually setting the DNS to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 all problems are gone
For me it's the transfer speed. I just redid all the LAN cables in the house before I bought the PS5 and I was so happy with the ~80-100mb/s download speed. These days sometimes the download speed goes even below 10mb/s. On the same cable my laptop is just fine.
I'm in Canada and I had to wait about a minute for the achievement screen to appear for Astro Bot. I'm surprised just how clunky the general interface for the system is.
I can't believe how opposite in direction that these big three keep rushing in. Sony & Microsoft? The slowest and most complicated UI you've ever seen in your life. Nintendo? The most boring but quick (outside of the eShop).
And yet they've all got one thing in common: NO user experience. NOTHING.
The "On Console" experience has gotten real bad over here ye, you can sorta circumvent by using the web store, but even the web store is not ideal honestly.
I have that problem on PS4 in Japan, I never really knew if it’s a PS4 issue or Japan issue. The friend feed is next to useless. Game info is slow to load, if at all, on the XMB. Cloud gaming also gets the please wait treatment when reconnecting after being kicked off. I hope PS5 is better, PS3 is!
The "please wait" is horrible for me as well (also Germany). A huge thing that got me to go away from consoles even though I originally planned to go away from PC this gen lol
Same experience here. More often than not, it takes a long time for it to log into PSN and browsing the store or achievement just takes "forever" to display content. Especially frustrating when you have physical game and digital dlc, game loads fine then you discover your content is unavailable...
Is there some special system in place for Germany? Never noticed “please wait” notifications or signs, but then again I could just be used to them and that’s why I don’t remember
Its such a bummer that consoles are so internet tethered now that their basic functions are kneecapped by server issues FROM THEIR PAID SERVICES, like it really burnt me out on the PS4 and switch and I don't think I'll ever again buy a mainstream console.
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Arrogant Sony is back baby!
Removed it and everything feels back to normal.
The Saturn network experience is far superior.
And yet they've all got one thing in common: NO user experience. NOTHING.
I know it sounds too easy but it solved their problems immediately.