I've been playing far too much warhawk recently than's healthy and it's great fun. I thought I'd get the pro PS3 bit out before I lay into another aspect... The PS3 store.
Is it just me or is the store really awful? It may be that I'm in a backwater of the world (the UK) and so we don't deserve content, but it's not the content that bugs me really. It's the UI.
You see the problem I have with it is that the UI is so obviously designed for a mouse because it's just a web browser behind the scenes (with red x icon for missing graphics when it's running slow). Now using HTML isn't bad in itself, but in order to use a controller to use the store it's easiest to move the pointer using the analogue stick much like a mouse and then to click to select. The problem is that the first click actually selects the control by centering the pointer on the control. The NEXT click activates the button, which is really strange.
The other problem I have is bandwidth. It feels like a web page from the late 90s sometimes with graphics coming down so slowly that you're bored before they turn up.
There's also things like the o button (which is "b" and back on the 360, and marked as back on the PS3 remote) actually quits the store when you're meant to hit the "prev" button using the pointer/moving the focus. Or the fact that downloading in the background feels tacked on.
It's not that Microsoft do such a better job really, it's that Sony is doing such a bad one. Online distribution is the future and Sony really aren't doing themselves any favours here. How many people didn't even realise that Warhawk was available through the store because there's no advertising unless you go into the store and check? Even then it's pretty hidden.
Now if you'll excuse me there's a 32 player dogfight awaiting my participation in warhawk.