I've got a few PSP Minis in my collection now, and I've often thought it would be nice to also play them on the PS3. I love that whole added value thing I get with the PSOne Classics titles, and adding the same functionality would probably help Sony more more Mini games.
Sony has confirmed that the new firmware update coming this month will add the ability to play the little PSP titles on your PS3. After the update, simply go to the PlayStation Store and download that Mini onto your PS3. No word on how these games will looked scaled up, but I'm not expecting miracles here. Again, I still play the PSOne games. They look nasty sometimes.
Also coming with Firmware update 3.15 is the ability to send data from one PS3 to another. Nifty for those upgrading or adding a second system.
[via Sony EU]
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9:50 AM on 12.08.2009
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I'm looking to get a new PS3 when moving to Uni (the one I have now is shared with brothers) and i've been worried about data transfer... this solves everything!
Oh and I'll be buying Blast Off =D
(do you see minis as PS3s equivalent to Community games?)
Apparently according to the ps blog post: Content such as games, game save data, and videos downloaded from PlayStation Network can be transferred to the new PS3 system and deleted from the current PS3
So I guess if you want to use both systems you're going to have to redownload and reactivate the old system then go through the process of reinstalling all the games.
Although it probably wouldn't help that much, given the stupidly high price of the console and the stupidly high price of the games.
just backup the ps3 to a portable hdd.
That'll work right?
Guess what I just read on the US Blog.
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2009/12/yakuza-3-marches-west/#comment-302777
Yeah it'll work, I'm selling my 60gig after I transfer everything off it though.
So my advise in invalid.
Still I don't know about those "locked" saves.
Any must own Minis yet?
Is this only Mini's, or if they have, like, God of War PSP on the store, could I buy that, stand alone?
All you need to do is plug in a external HDD to the one you want to upgrade.
Go to the PS3 settings and choose to back up everything to the external HDD.
Then take the old HDD out of the PS3 and put the new one in.
Then go to the settings on the PS3 again and choose to restore from the external HDD.
Has anyone heard/read that this other backup utility will
A)Transfer locked saves such as Demon's Souls and Street Fighter
B)Only ADD data. I've already played a bunch of new games on my slim and don't want to have to erase all my tekken progress when this comes out.
kthxbi its back to work guys
and at least somehow play PS1 games that is stored in my PSP via the PS3 to the TV again..that would rock my boat
what?i have two boats so what
Yup. As long as you are still logging into the same profile you'll be able to play every game you previously downloaded without having to re-download.
All save data and game updates will be saved as well.