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Joseph Rositano
18 May, 2007

Online store for the PSP

PSP News | To follow in the footsteps of the PS3 Store?
Sony has revealed at the recent Sony Gamers Day event in San Diego that the PSP will soon have its very own online store.

"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," SCEA president, Jack Tretton, stated. "Hopefully we'll have it out there by the fall."

Nothing else was revealed at the event, but it's a fair assumption we can expect the PSP Store to be similar to the PlayStation 3 Store. We'll report back once new information becomes avaliable.

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15 Comments
5 years ago
OK, so what are they going to have on the PS Store? Are they going to make full games available?

I don't really see the point of this to be honest.
5 years ago
Why bother with a store for a handheld?? The DS doesn't have a store and it constantly sells 500k units per week in the US.

I think Sony need to admit that the Playstation philophisy, which may have beaten Nintendo for the last ten years in the console market, is not coming close to Ninty in the handheld market (not saying that the PSP is a bad platform though).

Release a PSP-lite, drop the price, take out the extra functionality and get some casual and licensed games on it if they want success.

Can't imagine a price drop though. The company is doing just so **** in the short-run.
5 years ago
To follow in the footsteps of the PS3 store........so we can expect a few UMD trailers and well pretty much nothing else?

From the playstation site the psp downloads are set up through a store and thats pretty crap. Why bother with another store.
5 years ago
IF it works similar to the wii virtual console store i'd definitely be interested. Full versions of old ps1 games or arcade ports would be awesome, but it may mean losing my custom firmware.

hmmm its a big decision, we'll wait till it comes out before i make the decision between buying more games or portable sam and max hit the road
5 years ago
nihilcreative wrote
IF it works similar to the wii virtual console store i'd definitely be interested. Full versions of old ps1 games or arcade ports would be awesome, but it may mean losing my custom firmware.
That's what the PS3 store does, at least in theory - The US store has downloadable PSX games (not sure if you can actually put them on your PSP yet), but we still don't.
5 years ago
crestfallen wrote
Why bother with a store for a handheld?? The DS doesn't have a store and it constantly sells 500k units per week in the US.

I think Sony need to admit that the Playstation philophisy, which may have beaten Nintendo for the last ten years in the console market, is not coming close to Ninty in the handheld market (not saying that the PSP is a bad platform though).

Release a PSP-lite, drop the price, take out the extra functionality and get some casual and licensed games on it if they want success.

Can't imagine a price drop though. The company is doing just so s*** in the short-run.
Are you kidding me?

I am very surprised by some of the comments on this board. Itunes has a store, and it sells like crazy.

If Sony put movie trailers, music and mini games on there, there'd be plenty of impulse purchases and it would do very well.

And because the DS isnt doing this, Sony are looking to get a foothold into this market. In the US there are plenty of games made for mobile phones, if the PSP can get some titles such as Castlevania, Catan, Marble Blast Ultra, Minigolf, Pool like the Xbox Live Arcade, it would do extremely well.
5 years ago
^ Yeah you're right but it is very "iffy".

For a console its a great enhancement, but Nintendo's sales have shown that maybe there is no space for that kind of addition in handhelds.
5 years ago
Karai Pantsu wrote
That's what the PS3 store does, at least in theory - The US store has downloadable PSX games (not sure if you can actually put them on your PSP yet), but we still don't.
No, the PSX downloads were originally intended for the PSP and only worked on the PSP. Its only in the latest firmware update for the PS3 that it can actually play downloaded PSX games.
5 years ago
Ah, my mistake. I thought that even though they were meant for the PSP, they were only currently playable on the PS3 for some reason. Guess not.
5 years ago
Announcing an online store for the PSP is one thing, but i'm yet to work out how this feature has been "long awaited". Certainly not by PSP owners who dont even have a clue what exactly is to be offered on it. I remember that the WipEout Pure downloads (which were fantastic) were offered as an initial trial by Sony to try and see how well a download store would take, but to be truly successful it really needs to have more than mere mico transactions.

The real seller here would be to allow PSP owners to finally obtain PSOne games onto their units without a damn Playstation 3. A feature that was originally promised to the PSP community a long time ago. Or, as suggested earlier.. the ability to obtain older games ala XBox Live and Virtual Console.

I think Sony are holding back because their security attempts for the PSP are consistently chewed to pieces by the modding community and with the PSP performing less than stellar; they fear that threat of total software piracy would kill it completely.
5 years ago
Karai Pantsu wrote
Ah, my mistake. I thought that even though they were meant for the PSP, they were only currently playable on the PS3 for some reason. Guess not.
Yeah, maybe you should check your facts before you come along and make yourself look like an idiot. Again.

Are people actually going to argue that we should have NO store instead of having one? Personally I wouldn't mind the option. As in, YOU DON'T HAVE TO USE IT IF YOU DON'T WANT TO. Jesus Christ.
5 years ago
Wow.. what's with all the aggression today people?

Can't we all just pretend like there aren't any lawyers in the world and get along?


Yes. Having an options as a consumer is far better than being herded into one purchase avenue. Both ends of the table win.
5 years ago
The Brett wrote
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, YOU DON'T HAVE TO USE IT IF YOU DON'T WANT TO. Jesus Christ.[/quote]

i agree and i believe there is potential in this so hopfully sony wont mess up

it would be cool if they made it s u ca downlad arcade games
5 years ago
F-I-N-A-L-L-Y!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My god they release a US PS3 store with games meant to be played on the PSP and yet didn't have a PSP store? I mean what the hell were they thinking? It's about time they released a PSP specific store.
5 years ago
A PSP store is great, but it's not the thing we need. What we need is a single PS store that you can access regardless of platform and retieve media appropriate to your device. Sounds like it's pie-in-the-sky, but we can do this. We have the Remote Play fuction, which demonstrates that any of the 'ancilliary' media delivarable to a PS3 can be repurposed to a PSP.

It's kinda funny, at Game'06 I asked about region coding and Epharim (and co.) all insisted it was about TV standards. Now, when the new consoles are equipped to to display regardless of TV standard, it's clear that's not the case. While licencing and classification may be obstacles you still have cases like PS1 games where the licencing is already determined and the classification is already determined and yet we still don't have access to entire categories of content.

What are our advocates (and people like Epharim are our advocates!) doing to ensure we get the same breadth and quality of content?

Aside from my PC I don't have a sigle gaming machine that wasn't made by Sony, but I'd deny the title of 'Sony fanboi'. I expect a solid return on the money I've spent, and thus far Sony could be doing a lot better. I'd be shocked if Sony were left for dead in the PS3 (and X360) generation, but there's no doubt that they'r enot helping themselves. They're not much helping themselves in ths US sphere, let alone the AU sphere where entgire catagories of content are unavailable.

The stunning thing is that Sony is, without a doubt, in the best postion to offer an online network. They have the music and movie connections to provide dominance in the 'ancilliary media' field that they and Microsoft have defined as a battleground. At the least thay could provide, each week, the Sony Pictures trailers for that week, which have already been licenced, already been rated, and would provide a distinct advantage over the Microsoft offering. For some bizzare reason, they choose not to do this. Likewise thay already have a transaction and billing system in place that could be used for the vast catalog of Sony Music properties, with a modicum of negotiation. Again, there seems to be no action on this front.

At the same time they (currenty) own the casual gaming field Nintendo seem to be aiming for. It will be interesting to see how games such as My Singstar effect the Wii's apparent dominance of this field and music licenticng in general. If Sony are granted a general distribution licenece for every track or album avalible on My Singstar, Microsoft may find it has a probem it can't respond to directly.

Sony is currently demonstrating a great deal of potential, which people like me have paid for, that they aren't realising. They're not dropping the ball so much as they're willfully hurling it into the chasm at their feet. Honestly is one month an acceptable delay just because we live in aother country? Three? We have to be willing to be vocally sick of this treatment. Can PALGN provide us with contact email addresses for people to lobby?
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