PSP to get its own PlayStation Store

May 19th, 2007, 05:01 Posted By: JKKDARK

via Game Digest

Speaking at the Gamers Day event in San Diego this week, SCEA president Jack Tretton dropped hints that a portable version of the PlayStation Store would be coming to PSPs soon. "I think the advent of a long awaited and quite frankly long overdue ability to deliver a downloadable service for the PSP will help us out a great deal," he said. "Hopefully we'll have it out there by the fall."

Yep, being able to browse, download and buy content right from your PSP, especially whilst to in a Wi-Fi hotspot would be pretty smart. There’s just one minor thing Sony needs to do first: put some bloody content on the PlayStation Store!! I know that US PS3 users have access to a pretty healthy array of PSOne titles and PSN titles already, but those of us living in Europe are stuck here twiddling out thumbs (or, rather, not twiddling our thumbs) with pretty much bugger-all to play.

I can’t believe that it would be that hard to leverage the existing PS3 system into suiting the PSP browser – the trick would be making sure that content purchased via the PSP store would also be recognised on the PS3 store as well so you wouldn’t, for example, end up paying for a PSOne game twice. So fall seems a pretty fair time scale, even if Sony hasn't started working on it yet. This will probably also be used as another excuse to upgrade the firmware and keep the incredibly dedicated PSP hacking community at a disadvantage.

Whatever the reason, I sure wish Sony would stop put the means to sell games in place and, y’know, actually start selling the games.

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