Like anyone with a PS3, waiting until Thursday can be a bit of a drag. Seeing demos and other content pop up on Xbox Live in a steady stream only enhances the obnoxious wait for Sony to play catch-up. Well, beginning in May you won’t have to wait anymore. At least, you won’t have to wait until Thursday.

Joystiq has recently discovered that PlayStation Network updates for the US will now take place on Tuesday (Wednesday over in Europe for some reason). So that means no more waiting that extra day or two for some DLC or highly anticipated demo. I suppose this can be seen as Sony finally deciding it might be in their best interest to attempt to compete with Microsoft’s (better) schedule for releasing content, but it just seems like a case of too little too late.

Of course the flip-side to all this is that we still have to wait six days between updates. Sure we get those updates at the beginning of the week as opposed to the end, but the fact remains that once PSN is updated there won’t be any reason to bother with the store for another week. And I, for one, am getting tired of anxiously waiting for a PSN update only to be disappointed when I discover it’s full of videos I could have just watched on my computer, PSP minis I’ve never heard of (and they have no demos/videos/screenshots for) and one, maybe two Playstation Classics. Playstation Classics that only serve to remind me how much I despise Sony for holding back the likes of X-Com, Parasite Eve or Vagrant Story (which is on the European PSN right now, for cryin’ out loud!), to name a few.

But yes, now I’ll get to experience all of this earlier in the week. Hurray!

[Via: Joystiq]