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Q&A: Sony's John Koller Talks PSP's Downloadable Future
blog.wired.com - 3/25/2009
Q&A: Sony's John Koller Talks PSP's Downloadable Future
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Sony's PSP is, as ever, a puzzling contradiction. Industry pundits thought the powerful portable game player would outsell the DS, but Nintendo's touchscreen handheld has now moved more than 100 million units worldwide, as compared to Sony's 50 million. Sales of PSP in February were ...
News: PlayStation price drop "soon"
computerandvideogames.com - 3/18/2009
News: PlayStation price drop "soon"
— computerandvideogames.com — Wednesday 18-Mar-2009 10:09 AM PS3 and PSP cuts "definitely coming soon" retailer tells CVG On the back of ongoing rumours, CVG has been told that Sony has informed retailers of a looming price drop for both the PS3 and PSP "soon", but is yet to ... (more) News: PlayStation price drop "soon"

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— gamestop.com — Rock Band Unplugged will allow players to take the game on the road with the first ever portable version of the popular music and gaming experience. Rock Band Unplugged will take center stage as it leverages the PSP system’s Wi-Fi capabilities and ... (more) Buy Rock Band: Unplugged - Sony PSP

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Destructoid:  Sony's to bring more PSP downloads, improved PSN Store

Joystiq [PlayStation]:  Sony blames legal hurdles for lack of downloadable UMD games in America

That VideoGame Blog:  Sony showing some love to the PSP with more downloads, improved storefront

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Sony's to bring more PSP downloads, improved PSN Store
Destructoid — ... PlayStation marketing boss John Koller has been talking to Wired about the PSP and PlayStation Network, where he has revealed that digital distribution is the future of Sony's handheld device. It'll be Sony's "big push" this year as the company focuses on simultaneous UMD and PSN releases for PSP games. ...

Sony blames legal hurdles for lack of downloadable UMD games in America
Joystiq [PlayStation] — ... John Koller explains that the ultimate goal of SCEA will be to mirror the content available in Japan. "What's coming out of Japan echoes the way that we look at the world here in North America. They have decided to go full-bore with digital content, and we have as well. All of that's going to happen," he told Wired. Koller blames legal issues for the current dearth of content on the PlayStation Store. "There are a few hurdles you need to jump through. A lot of them are legal, so if you have a music game, for example, you have to clear all those rights. The same goes for any ...

Sony showing some love to the PSP with more downloads, improved storefront
That VideoGame Blog — ... Speaking with Wired, Koller revealed that increasing the storefront content, overhauling the user experience and launching upcoming games like LittleBigPlanet in direct-download form will be part of the company’s “big push” to make the PSP a stronger contender against Nintendo and Apple, whose DSiWare and iPhone are dominating the downloadable games market. ...

Sony Want More Downloadable PSP Games On The PSN [PSP]
Kotaku — ... download a game and store it on a memory card. And we're not talking retro games, either. We're talking the simultaneous release of a game in a store (on UMD) and on the PSN (as a digital download). Sony have been pushing this with first-party games for a few months now - LocoRoco 2 and Patapon 2 (in Europe) were both available day 1 as downloads over the PSN - but we should be seeing it a lot more often in the months to come, from both Sony and third-party publishers. Q&A;: Sony's John Koller Talks PSP's Downloadable Future [Wired] ...

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