PSP to Get Classic Game Download Service

Krishna Dagli writes to mention an Ars Technica story about a classic game download service for the PSP. It's supposed to work with the PS3 as well, and will at this point mostly consist of old PS1 titles. From the article: "According to Kawanishi, the new service will work either through a PC with a broadband connection, or through the PlayStation 3 itself. The user will be able to download games designed for the original PlayStation 1, which according to the Sony head works well. 'As for emulation power there is no problem,' he said, although he added that some changes have to be made to the games because the PSP only has a single analog stick and fewer control buttons than the PS1. He did not mention which titles would be made available, but he mentioned how Amazon had a list of "all books," indicating that Sony probably wants to put a large number of games on the service."

Great

[MooseMuffin]

Now I can play ps1 games on my already-backwards-compatable ps3!

Sony Innovation

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't know why Sony keeps getting such a hard rap. I haven't seen any of the other game makers providing innovations like being able to download old games.

In all seriousness though, there's a huge difference between downloading a game that's a few hundred kilobytes, and is not available in any stores anymore (Except ebay), and downloading a game that is the size of a CD, and is probably still available used at many B&M stores.

Sony fails again...

Re:Sony Innovation

[Volante3192]

Damn it Nintendo! Stop going forward in time and stealing Sony's ideas!

Re:bound to fail

[Sku-Lad]

I'd be interested to see a breakdown of how much goes to Sony and how much goes back to the designers (if they even exist anymore...)

So then I'm not the only one who thinks that Sony kills their developers after they've outlived their usefulness.