Sony document unveils PSN video download service, possible PS3 price cut, and more

A Sony document in circulation has revealed some interesting details regarding the company’s plans for the PS3 and PSP. For one, there’s the prospect of a new video download service that might be introduced to PSN by this summer. Further details are available in the full article.

Sony will be holding its Mid-Term Corporate Strategy meeting today. Based on a slide presentation we’ve picked up pertaining to this event, the company has a lot planned for PSN, the PlayStation 3, and the PSP.

For one, the company has unveiled that it’s making plans to introduce a video download service via PSN as part of a massive video service campaign for all their products, to be completed by fiscal year 2010.

A press wire from the company further indicates that this new service will be hitting by summer of this year. Sony’s slide also notes that PSN currently has 9.8 million subscribers worldwide. With regard to the PSP, Sony revealed in their presentation that there are plans to enable the handheld to access the PlayStation Store.

The PlayStation 3 is expected to receive some cost cutting measures, which include a reduction in its number of parts and chip size. While it wasn’t detailed, we imagine this has something to do with Toshiba’s plans to manufacture 45 nm RSX chips for the PlayStation 3 within this year. Gaming-wise, SCE indicated that it has several titles lined up for fiscal year 2008 (April 1, 2008 to March 31, 2009):

• MotorStorm 2
• Killzone 2
• Resistance 2
• LittleBigPlanet
• AFRIKA
• Secret Agent Clank (already released)
• Shirokishi Monagatari (aka White Knight Story)

Yup – after nearly eight months of information limbo, it looks like SCE’s going to be releasing Level 5‘s production somewhere between here and early 2009. That’s the lowdown on the bigger details that Sony’s corporate meeting presentation unveiled – those interested in viewing the rest of the slide show can access it at the Sony Global site, via the source link below.