Accord­ing to Eric Lem­pel, direc­tor of PlaySta­tion Net­work Oper­a­tions, the new PS3 firmware update will be made avail­able very soon. Ver­sion 2.30 will include the revamped PLAYSTATION Store which – I have to say – looks really nice. There a video avail­able fea­tur­ing Grace Chen, Senior Man­ager of the PLAYSTATION Store, who will walk the viewer through the new store. The most impor­tant news here is that the new store won’t be web-based any­more. This will make it more fluid and eas­ier to nav­i­gate, accord­ing to Chen. Well, have a look for yourself.

If you don’t want to watch a video or if you just don’t have time right now, here are a few screen­shots depict­ing the inter­face of the new PLAYSTATION Store.

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