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Sony Connect To Hook Up With PlayStation Portable?

Posted by simoniker on from the cloak-and-dagger dept.

An anonymous reader writes "UK video game site C&VG has posted a story rumoring Sony's PlayStation Portable handheld game console will allow both music and games to be downloaded via the newly announced Sony Connect online download store. An industry source quoted in the article says: 'PSP is intended to be able to link up with Sony Connect to offer digital music for download, but the bigger deal is the plan to put PSP games up there for download eventually, too.' C&VG says this rumor, if true, shows 'Sony's alleged drive to ultimately cut-out retail and handle distribution of software itself' - we'll find out for sure next week at E3." Elsewhere, GamePro/Famitsu interviews leading Japanese PSP developers, with Atlus producer Hideyuki Yokoyama saying: "I expect downloads and fees to be the primary business model."

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  1. Sony is tickling my inner hippie by Frigid+Monkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ok, so this is a little embarrasing but with the amount of games that were distributed for the PS1 that are now filling up landfills, not to mention the industrial waste from producing all those cds/dvds eliminating the packaging/disk/instructions might not be so bad, heck I'm going to go play my PSP in a TREE damnit!
    OTOH, eliminating the retail side of sales will cut all us little guys trying to make a buck slingin' games to pimply kids straight out.
    "I'm sorry we don't carry Madden 2006, it's availible only from sony.biz.com.monopoly"

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    "It's all just meme meme around here"
  2. pic? by chachob · · Score: 2, Funny

    funny how the nintendo gameboy is used as the logo for a sony playstation article, eh?

  3. Re:Sony wins! by nfotxn · · Score: 3, Funny
    This will put those Xbox fans back on their ass where they belong!
    Well, it's kinda hard to play those long Halo sessions standing up. To each their own, I suppose.
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    _nfotxn

  4. Not saying YOU bought an N-Gage, but ... by boarder8925 · · Score: 2, Funny
    I personally wouldn't want to pay that much for just a handheld.
    It's amazing how many people who bought the N-Gage would probably say something like this ... ;)
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    Keep your eyes to the sky.
  5. Re:Value add of retail shops? by dubiousmike · · Score: 2, Funny

    The value is getting out of your house. See some hot chicks at the mall. Duh.

  6. Re:Over Hyped by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    Just like Sony claimed the playstation 2 would be able to render toy story in real time.

    It did render Toy Story, as long as you had the disc in the drive!