Sony Connect To Hook Up With PlayStation Portable?

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."

Comments

i thought it had an optical drive?

[edrugtrader]

so will it use mini cd-rs? if i download it, how do i get it on the system? does the system have internal storage? if so, how much?

Re:Interesting move

[edrugtrader]

to get around pirates would be interresting. you would have to give them your "PSP ID", and they would encode the game with that as some sort of salt, so only your PSP could play it. basically same as iTunes, and basically just as easy to reverse.

Hmm...

[Oxy the moron]

Now if only there were a simple way to download music and select what music you wanted to listen to during various scenes of a video game.

*imagines listening to Linkin Park's "Faint" during a final battle scene in an FF game*