PSN Accounts Changing to Sony Entertainment Network Accounts

By Landon Robinson | 05 February 2012 | 9 Comments

Sony has announced that all PlayStation 3 online accounts, formerly known as PlayStation Network accounts, will now be titled “Sony Entertainment Network accounts.” This comes as part of Sony’s efforts to phase out older services and terminology in favor of a more over-arching branding umbrella.

For those worried, don’t. The changes to accounts are completely cosmetic, and your account will see no systematic alterations.

In a Q&A with NeoGAF, a Sony spokesperson shed some more light on the decision to switch:

“The goal is for there to be one networked log-in for all Sony services. Changing the name ‘PlayStation Network account’ to ‘Sony Entertainment Network account’ helps clarify the unity between PSN and other Sony Entertainment Network services.”

Oddly, the PSP will not see such changes, as users will still see “PlayStation Network account” upon login. That doesn’t sound like unification to me.

Then again, the PSP is, in all truth, dead as a doornail, so it’s not surprising that Sony wouldn’t allocate time and resources to altering its systems as well.

What do you think? Is it pointless, or do you even mind?

[via NeoGAF]

9 Comments

Posted by Mugenite on 05 February 12 at 1:07pm

“Where is SEN?! I want SEN!” lol
Posted by Eoin on 05 February 12 at 1:24pm

Personally I don’t mind, however I wish they would allocate their resources to allowing users to change their PSN IDs, for a price of course. I am sick of my ID, I refuse to change it because I have over 200 euro worth of content and 2685 trophies, but I’d be willing to pay up to 15 euro just to change the damn thing.
- Posted by tehking on 06 February 12 at 8:30am
  
  for super srs yo
Posted by GuyWithAbeard on 05 February 12 at 5:06pm

Get hacked once, change security a little. Get hacked twice, change your name. Makes sense.
- Posted by Flag Captured on 06 February 12 at 10:39am
  
  Shh… the hackers will never see through this clever disguise of Sony’s!
Posted by I need a cool name on 05 February 12 at 6:42pm

If only they let us delete PSN accounts. I wanna free up my email so i can have a different name!
Posted by René Mathias Rojas on 06 February 12 at 12:11am

I don’t really mind this change. Allthough when it comes to actually notifying us by e-mail I… I really don’t trust any e-mails that bears news like these. I’m probably just overly paranoid but if something big as this happens I always check the address and delete it. E-mail the company/service or actually call them directly. Query them about the e-mail I recieve and only then believe it. Or just read it on a news website such as right here which is why I check it several times daily.

Does anyone else feel like this? I always hope my e-mail service is able to pick up any and all spam or fakes but there has always been a phishing e-mail or two everywhere. Such as the Blizzard e-mails. OH HOW I HATE! The e-mails from Blizzard! I hate them, I don’t play WoW, I don’t want the Diablo III beta, and in noway is my Battle.net account accused for in-game gold trading when I don’t have it registered to an active game account!

A little rant there but I doubt I’m the only one getting these and I don’t think Blizzard are the only ones being hit like this.
Posted by Adrian on 06 February 12 at 6:24pm

In their e-mail out to PSN users they said, (Verbatim)

“(Note, this change will not be applied to the PSP (Playstation Portable) system at this time.)”

at this time are some pretty key words…
Posted by CoreyClarkYC93 on 07 February 12 at 8:56am

It looks like Sony is attempting to do with PSN what Microsoft did with Xbox and Windows Live. I have no problem with this.