PSP to get new networking features

  • Posted September 2nd, 2008 at 11:22 EDT by
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Sony Japan has announced a few significant new PlayStation Portable networking features, as reported by IGN.

Top of the list is direct PSP access to the PlayStation Store via the handheld's web browser. At long, long last, you'll be able to download demos, full games and other media without having to plug your PSP into a PC or PS3. To celebrate this much-demanded feature, Sony will make Mainichi Issyo Portable freely available on the Store at launch (you'll have to pay for additional modes and items, mind).

Even more impressively, Sony Japan plans to let PSP owners play Ad Hoc multiplayer online via a PSP-to-PS3 connection. The manufacturer has confirmed that the hugely popular Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G will be among the first games to support this new service. During online Ad Hoc play, you'll also be able to use your PSP for text and chat messaging.

The updates are scheduled for release this fall in Japan, and will be compatible with all existing PSP models. North American and European dates are hopefully to follow.

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  1. Infernoz0 | Oblivian_92

    • 11:36am BST - September 2nd, 2008
    • 1

    intresting

  2. A_Ninja | Arabia_Ninja

    • 11:45am BST - September 2nd, 2008
    • 2

    PSN for PSP is a good thing .... but dose the PSP support backgraound download like the PS3 ???

    and the other feature ... dose they mean a reverse-remote play  ... playing ur PSP games on ur PS3 for NON psp2000 owners  !!!!

  3. The Mask | JSack20

    • 12:11pm BST - September 2nd, 2008
    • 3

    hopefully this will also work with remote play so i can play my psp in 1080p using my sixaxis as psp doesn't support vibration

  4. Strudel | Strudel

    • 12:21pm BST - September 2nd, 2008
    • 4

    [quote]plans to let PSP owners play Ad Hoc multiplayer online via a PSP-to-PS3 connection.[/quote]

    Does this mean we can play PSP games on the PS3? or just you plug your PSP into your PS3 and you can play online with your PSP?

  5. angryplaystationdude | sympozium_666

    • 12:26pm BST - September 2nd, 2008
    • 5

    Sh!t I traded PSP in

  6. Fiddlesworth

    • 12:31pm BST - September 2nd, 2008
    • 6

     It means you can play PSP games online that don't have infrastructure multiplayer. The PS3 acts as a tunneling bridge. Voice and text chat should be available on PS3 (not PSP as the story says) so it won't matter so much that ad-hoc games don't include these communication features. The PS3 is needed because extra software (not part of the game) can't run in the background of a PSP game, PSP wasn't designed for that.

  7. Staticneuron | Staticneuron

    • 12:48pm BST - September 2nd, 2008
    • 7

    What ad-hoc play is referring to is using the PS3 has a wireless hub to play online.

     

    EDIT: PSH.... how dare you respond faster "and" with more detail than me!!!!  J/K

     

    Thanks Fiddlesworth

  8. MMDs | MMDs

    • 2:15pm BST - September 2nd, 2008
    • 8

     @angryplaystationdude

    this isn't some kind of update that every old PS3 will be getting, its a feature on the new PSP-3000 models from what i understand.

  9. ephracis | ephracis

    • 2:19pm BST - September 2nd, 2008
    • 9

    Give us MSN on the PSP. And why bother with accessing the store via the webbrowser? Didn't we already go through the downsides of that with the PS3 before they decided to make the store native instead?

  10. nastanley

    • 10:24pm BST - September 2nd, 2008
    • 10

    good to see that the psp3000 will be a great piece of hardware. all these features just make the console more and more appealing.

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