PlayStation Store for PSP goes live in the US

The online Playstation Store for the PSP just quietly went live on our side of the world with two downloadable PSP titles, 16 PSone titles, and a handful of themes, wallpapers, and videos. Wipeout Pure and Syphon Filter: Combat Ops are the first two $10 PSP games out of the gate, and highlights of the PSone list include Twisted Metal 2, Crash Bandicoot, and Tekken 2, all for $6. The store requires the download of a Windows-only loader app to transfer files to your PSP -- and now, after waiting all this time for PS3-free downloads, we're kinda wondering why we can't sync up over WiFi. Eh, don't let our grumpy whining bother you -- go get your game on and let us know how things are working for you in comments.

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[J.W. @ Nov 20th 2007 5:19PM]

Windows only? Boo!

[Nick K. @ Nov 20th 2007 5:22PM]

Yup. Booo... Although, us Mac users can just boot into Windows. W/e.

[Craig @ Nov 20th 2007 6:45PM]

MAC people play video games? Oh wait, I forgot about the Nintendo DS. Nintendogs RAWKS!

[Silver R. Wolfe @ Nov 20th 2007 8:53PM]

Us Window PC users can boot into Windows too!

[cbhwr @ Nov 21st 2007 12:19AM]

>>Us Window PC users can boot into Windows too!

Well, at least occasionally.

*ducks*

[riggs @ Nov 21st 2007 8:51AM]

*duck* *goose*

[Jamesology @ Nov 20th 2007 5:36PM]

YAY!!!! Ever since I bought an Ipod Nano my 8gb MS was useless until now YAY!!!

[Jamesology @ Nov 20th 2007 5:49PM]

I just made an account and for sure it's cheaper than EB and Gamestop.... for now.

[Jonathan Keim @ Nov 20th 2007 5:57PM]

Been waiting for this!

[Fank @ Nov 20th 2007 6:09PM]

Good job on a job well done way too late.

[Brian B @ Nov 20th 2007 6:21PM]

This is great news. I dusted off my PSP for the GOW demo and I'll definitely check this out and check out some stuff like Castlevania for $10.

On another note, the site itself is TERRIBLE. They break the back button randomly and they're using HTML to scale large images down to 100x100 for the thumbnail navigation. That's like Web Dev 101. Sad.

[Espiox @ Nov 20th 2007 6:36PM]

It's also available in Europe.

[matt @ Nov 20th 2007 6:39PM]

i swear ive been running ps1 games for like..a year now?

[Vizion @ Nov 20th 2007 6:47PM]

legally?

[matt @ Nov 20th 2007 7:14PM]

obv hacked

[ark_v2 @ Nov 20th 2007 7:15PM]

Surely he can. There's the ps3 you know.

[Chris_3D @ Nov 21st 2007 7:26AM]

No....not the PS3, it's called PSP custom firmware.

[Mark @ Nov 20th 2007 6:48PM]

WTF? Games via the "Canadian" interface are $15.99/$10.99?

Doesn't Sony know the dollar is pretty much at par? It's certainly not a 60% increase in prices!

[Robert @ Nov 20th 2007 6:59PM]

Isn't the Canadian dollar worth more than the American dollar still? lol

1.00 CAD = 1.01869 USD

Too funny.

[Silver R. Wolfe @ Nov 20th 2007 8:55PM]

Actually, the CAD is kicking the USD's ass all over the place.

[ark_v2 @ Nov 20th 2007 11:27PM]

Damn it. It doesn't work in Mexico (HA! What a surprise). I hate this. I can only order small things from Amazon and Mercado Libre (ebay in Latin America) and all the music I buy comes with DRM since the coolest stores (Amazon's beta and Zune Marketplace for me) aren't avalible here.

[Ronturon @ Nov 21st 2007 2:45AM]

finally!!!

[Supraman8402 @ Nov 21st 2007 2:51AM]

At last, they finally bypass the PS3, about bloody time. I'll probably end up buying a PS3 on Black Friday anyways so it's a day late (and from the look of the website) a buck short. Now if they can just hurry along FFVII quicker than they did the website I'll be happy :)

[Reader @ Nov 21st 2007 3:22AM]

Wow, why wasn't this done when the psp LAUNCHED?? I would have probably bought it.

[Brandon @ Nov 22nd 2007 8:24PM]

MS needs to at LEAST support the older OS' a little bit

[masa @ Nov 21st 2007 12:16PM]

This is a good new, even for french people like me. Because in the Euro playstation there aren't a lot of game. In US playtstation store, i bought castlevania: symphony of the night ;)

Europe is always the old continent .

j@ne
cedric

[matt @ Nov 21st 2007 5:33PM]

il sell my psp for a pound

any takers?

[Marty @ Dec 6th 2007 1:54PM]

NICE!! Maybe I can find some old PS1 games to play... cause I still haven't found a *great* game to play on the PSP. I really need to utilize my PSP and all it's functions more. It's really a pretty loaded device when you add it all up. I used to have a DS and got bored with it... so much more you can do w/ PSP. Downside being the sucky games of course.