Sony announces 7 downloadable games for PSP in 2008

Many PSP owners want more return out of their $169 investment. Even with the new TV Out feature for the PSP-2000 model, and a slew of great exclusive holiday games around the corner, PSP owners still deserve more. Coincidentally, Sony has announced that they are in the development stages for 7 PSP titles exclusively available for download via the PlayStation Store, with many more to come.

Currently the service is only available on the PlayStation 3, but the PSP service is set to launch in 2008. For PSP owners using the PlayStation Store through their PSPs, they will be able to gain access to original games, classic PSone games, demos for UMD-based and downloadable games, and finally TV material such as trailers, behind the scenes clips and interviews.

An SCEA source revealed that three of the 7 downloadable PSP games will be action games, two are music based games, one is a racing game and one a shooting game. They are said to be about half the size of the average UMD title, meaning that the downloadable games can span from 2 to 10 hours in length. No other information regarding the games is known, other than that they are being developed internally.

So for you PSP owners wanting more bang for your buck, this should give you more validation for your purchase of a PSP. We'll keep you informed.

Source: GamesIndustry.biz

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  1. gingo | gingo

    • 2:19pm BST - October 9th, 2007
    • 1

    psn id: gingo.. it seems fair since ps3 owners can download games so psp owners should be no different

  2. NY_Young1 | NY_Young1

    • 2:39pm BST - October 9th, 2007
    • 2

    This is cool, I just hope they're not crappy games.

  3. iToke

    • 2:47pm BST - October 9th, 2007
    • 3

    as long as these games are quality than this should definitely be interesting.  too bad we will have to wait to find out more....

  4. TH3 GAM3 | GAM3OV3R003

    • 2:51pm BST - October 9th, 2007
    • 4

    I don't know about that one. 10 hours would be worth buying.

  5. SecretSquirrel | SeventhAxes

    • 2:54pm BST - October 9th, 2007
    • 5

    This will be huge! Imagine carrying like 10 games with you at once in a portable system, WITHOUT the need to change any discs? Sweet! I hope they keep it simple, yet in good. ;-)

  6. Syphon_Filter | Syphon_filter2

    • 2:59pm BST - October 9th, 2007
    • 6

    Its to realy to do this so $tupid of sony. There are some Ps1 games they were great, until now, sony just gave the Syphon filter and Takken and rest of the ps1 game that are at the playstaion store are garbag. And many people converted some of the old games to play them on thier psp.

  7. SolsticeZero | SolsticeZero

    • 3:17pm BST - October 9th, 2007
    • 7

    I've been wanting this for my PSP for so long, however, if the store actually installs on to the PS firmware, it could possibly detect if people are using custom firmware or not

  8. mustang750r | MUSTANG750R

    • 3:52pm BST - October 9th, 2007
    • 8

    finally they start listening to us

  9. Mecha_Daddy | mecha_daddy

    • 4:14pm BST - October 9th, 2007
    • 9

    Any of us that has a PSP knows it's got a lot of potential.  It's about time they started realizing it.

  10. tegesh

    • 7:10pm BST - October 9th, 2007
    • 10

    heyyyy to all of you psp bashers the psp is the best technological breakthrough ever so to all of you haters shut the FCUK up,idiots. PS:south park(cartman) KICK a$S.

  11. Babiloo | XavierHarkonnen

    • 11:00pm BST - October 9th, 2007
    • 11

    7+2+1+1=11 do the math windowlicker

  12. iplayonlysony

    • 8:43am BST - October 10th, 2007
    • 12

    No, the writer was right.  3 (out of 7)+2+1+1=7.

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