Online store for the PSP

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?