Just a heads up, guys! If you have been looking forward to downloading comic books for your PSP, today is the day to do it. At 3pm EST and 5pm GMT, Sony's much-lauded PSP comics service will launch, allowing you to browse and purchase comics for your PSP's digital reader.
The service will be available in North America, the UK (exclusive Ireland for technical reasons), Australia and New Zealand.
Hundreds of comics are said to be available, spanning such publishers as Marvel, IDW, iVerse and 2000AD. For a full list, you can check out Playstationcomics.com after the service launches. Should be quite an interesting new feature to check out, and I will certainly be making sure I do so. What about you? Want some Iron Man in your pocket?
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11:20 AM on 12.16.2009
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"We’re not quite ready for you yet.
We do plan to launch the service in as many countries as possible, we just can't be certain when. Please check back here now and then, and who knows..."
And of course, your opinion should be the end-all/be-all of human choice, right? Who the fuck cares about what other people like? Or the real issues plaguing humanity.
-With my pirate hat on, it's incredibly easy to go and grab comics online for free, more than I could ever read.
-Without my pirate hat on, if I'm going to drop money on comics, I'm going to go ahead and get a newsstand edition, or better yet a trade ppb. Easier to read, better looking, and you can lend them to anyone who's interested. Can't really lend e-PSP comics to anyone who doesn't have a PSP, which makes them less fun.
-A device like this really mangles the strong points of the media; you just can't slowly take in a splash page, you have to scroll and zoom -- you can do it, it's just discouraging.
-A lot of the stuff I read is indie anyways and won't ever make it here.
Ahh, well. Baby steps, I suppose.