And it's about time too. Sony has revealed today, during a Strategy Meeting in Tokyo, that the PSP will finally be getting direct access to the PSN Store. That means no more having to deal with cables, memory cards or PCs. Good news for Mac lovers. It also means that you'll be able to download content from any WiFi hotspot. Pretty tasty.
There's no real release date, other than "this fiscal year," which could mean anything up to next April. The service was announced at
GDC earlier this year, but no timeframe was announced. There's a chance we'll be hearing more about this at E3 next month, so stay tuned for that.
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6-26-2008 @ 11:04AM
drdre74 said...
Never gonna happen. I'm tired of Sony putting this stuff out and it never happens. it will be great since Im on a mac. But come on. Sony has been talking it up for along time and they havent done anything.
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6-26-2008 @ 11:32AM
Brandon said...
Oh really, the PC store was a step towards this, and that was something the delivered on pretty quickly after they announced they would be doing it. I expect it to be a 5.0 sort of release. With a psp accessible store. The only thing that keeps the psp from being the perfect digital device is the lack of a harddrive or onboard flash storage. The I believe will the biggest feature of perhaps the next system (whether it be a redesign or the psp2).
6-26-2008 @ 11:14AM
daniel-kun said...
The content that would drive me to the PSN store is missing, anyways...
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6-26-2008 @ 11:20AM
Duff_B said...
This would be great news - if Sony ever put anything worth downloading onto the bl***y site. Sony (SCEE/SCEA) should start giving us that back catalogue of PS1 games we are all after and then I'll be happy with direct access.
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6-26-2008 @ 5:45PM
Hashbrown Hunter said...
Did you just censor 'bloody'?
6-27-2008 @ 3:18AM
Duff_B said...
Yes... But thinking about it, it's not that bad. I tend to censor anything like that in case someone's offended.
6-26-2008 @ 11:25AM
Alien said...
So we will get this on March 30 2009 ?
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6-26-2008 @ 11:47AM
Jonathan said...
SONY needs to sign some contracts to get some DECENT PS1 games for us!
WTF sony
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6-26-2008 @ 11:49AM
Jonathan said...
they need to get some contracts signed with sqaure-enix to get some JRPG's up in the psn store.
WE NEED PS1 CLASSICS!!!
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6-26-2008 @ 2:42PM
theMediaman said...
Everything Sony says is coming for the PSP or PS3 is "coming soon". They've said the camera, GPS and keyboard are "coming soon" for the last two years. I'm not holding my breath on this one either.
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6-26-2008 @ 4:34PM
Phil said...
Yay, now I'll be able to log onto the PSN Store and download the ABSOLUTELY NOTHING that Sony bothers posting there.
The sheer difference between the JPN and US PSN Stores is unbefreakinlievable.
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6-26-2008 @ 5:11PM
SparkyJ23 said...
What they^^ all said
Call this strange but wouldn't direct access from the PSP to the PSN Store be the FIRST thing you'd think of?
6-26-2008 @ 6:00PM
henry said...
hopefully it doesn't take 30 mins to download something...
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6-27-2008 @ 1:14PM
required said...
I don't know, if it takes ~time I'm okay since I won't have to sit in traffic and dispose of shrink wrap.
6-27-2008 @ 2:42AM
Jacksons said...
I suppose this might mean something to mac users, but it doesn't mean much to me. There's a lot of games on PS1 I'd love to have portable, but they're not in the US store. I'm not talking obscure stuff either, I'm talking first party.
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