Another slow week as we sit squarely in the dead period between the flurry of November releases and the flurry of Q1 2010 releases of all those delayed games that were too scared to go up against Modern Warfare 2. So today we feature The Legend Of Zelda: Spirit Tracks for the DS. Sure, it’s not the full-fledged Wii game people are waiting for, but it’s Zelda, so that’s something.

I like how Sony’s PlayStation Network is free, just another value proposition for getting a PS3. But Lord love a duck, sometimes you get what you pay for. I just upgraded my PS3 to replace the woefully inadequate 40GB hard drive with a 320GB one. Great. After struggling a bit with the update and restore, I find myself having to reactivate some of my downloaded games (thank you, DRM). Ok, I kinda knew this was coming, so now I’m starting the process of doing this, except one needs to connect to the PSN and get onto the store to do this. Which is a problem when the PSN isn’t being very responsive. I’m fighting through slow connections, intermittent connection losses, and general shenanigans. I’ve finally called it a night on this attempt, frustrated at my experience.

Let’s couple this with the currently known issue of trophy syncs not always working. Supposedly this might be fixed by Wednesday, December 9th, even though this issue has been going on probably over a week now. Sony, you’re absolutely killing me here. And it’s not my connection, I ran a test using the Internet Connection test on my PS3. Internet connection is fine, PSN… FAILED.

All I want is to get my PS3 working like it was before, so I can download the Bayonetta demo and stare at the lead characters, er, assets. Why must this be so hard?