The PSpgo has been getting some flack from us, though when it finally landed I think we gave it a pretty fair shake. One of the great things about it is that the downloadable game service over PSN was pretty robustly supported at launch (as may possibly be discussed later today in a feature - come back to find out). However, with no UMD how the hell is anyone supposed to rent games anymore? Sony may have us covered.
While digging around on their new PSPgo, Retail Gamer discovered something interesting. On the PS3 one can sort one's games into folders, but you can't do that on the PSPgo. Finding this fact a little odd they pressed square to re-sort the folders like one does on the PS3. The PSPgo did sort the games, but the way it did it was by expiration date. What expiration date? When you download a game onto the PSPgo you own it, it doesn't expire. This can lead to only one conclusion. Much like the movie rental service on PSN a game rental service will be coming for PSP games. We wouldn't be surprised, actually.
I seriously doubt anyone finds this news truly shocking, but as the information is already built into the system at launch we probably won't be waiting too long before we can basically start demoing entire games instead of just little snippets. And who is to say this would only work on the PSP? Any system with a download service (all of them) could conceivably pull off a rental service.
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8:30 AM on 10.04.2009
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Indeed because the PS3 has had the same thing since launch.
The PS3 has this on all PSN downloads, regardless if you buy it or not. It's only there for beta's and such. Talk about making a story out of nothing, although it is Sunday, so I forgive you.
Yeah that experation without a date has been there for a long time
Maybe now they'll update the story with "correction, this expiration thing has been in place for a long time, gamer blogs succeed at instigating bs again."
Honestly, I think they SHOULD do PSP and PS3 game rentals. Demos are great, but let us download the games that can't be bought in retail so we can experience the whole thing. Then if we like the game, and we want to buy it before the rental time is up, our money for the rental can be put towards the full purchase. It's a win/win for everyone.
don't mean shit.
All games/demos/betas you download from PSN onto your PS3 has the expiration tab, whether or not it ever intended on having one.
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