PSP download store delayed due to DRM
For those waiting for the promised PSP Download Store, it looks like you’ll have to wait a little bit longer. Sony officials were not able to specify a launch date when asked about the PSP’s downloadable media service. The reason? Sony is still working on Digital Rights Management (DRM) to protect downloadable content from getting pirated, said John Koller, spokesman for the PlayStation Portable.
According to some financial analysts like Forrester Research’s James McQuivey, the delay is setting back the PSP from challenging the popularity of the iPod. “It could have been the first big mobile carrier of TV shows and movies,” said McQuivey on the PSP’s potential to become one of the best portable media devices should it have DRM.
Even Jack Tretton, Sony Computer Entertainment America’s (SCEA) president recognizes the importance of the downloadable service for the PSP.
I think the advent of a long awaited and quite frankly long overdue ability to deliver a downloadable service for the PSP will help us out a great deal… Hopefully we’ll have it out there by the fall.
The Sony executives did give some information about the upcoming PSP downloadable store. Short form games will be available, and once music and movies are made available in the service, Koller promises that they will be of the same quality as the almost-flawless UMD media.
For those waiting for the promised PSP Download Store, it looks like you’ll have to wait a little bit longer. Sony officials were not able to specify a launch date when asked about the PSP’s downloadable media service. The reason? Sony is still working on Digital Rights Management (DRM) to protect downloadable content from getting pirated, said John Koller, spokesman for the PlayStation Portable.
According to some financial analysts like Forrester Research’s James McQuivey, the delay is setting back the PSP from challenging the popularity of the iPod. “It could have been the first big mobile carrier of TV shows and movies,” said McQuivey on the PSP’s potential to become one of the best portable media devices should it have DRM.
Even Jack Tretton, Sony Computer Entertainment America’s (SCEA) president recognizes the importance of the downloadable service for the PSP.
I think the advent of a long awaited and quite frankly long overdue ability to deliver a downloadable service for the PSP will help us out a great deal… Hopefully we’ll have it out there by the fall.
The Sony executives did give some information about the upcoming PSP downloadable store. Short form games will be available, and once music and movies are made available in the service, Koller promises that they will be of the same quality as the almost-flawless UMD media.
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