Developers told of PSP rental plans at GDC |
Apparently Sony’s been thinking of doing a PSP games rental service for a while. A recent consumer survey that Joystiq discovered yesterday gauged interest in a PSN-powered games rental service for the PSP. The theoretical service would have PSP owners pay a monthly fee for access to a library of new and archived games on the PlayStation Store.
According to a report by Develop, Sony unveiled plans of a rental service to developers at GDC last March. A PSN-centric PSP would be far more attractive to developers who have shied away due to piracy or other concerns. This news re-enforces that rumor regarding music downloads for the PSP.




The Storm Synth watch never ever wants you to know the time. So it hides it from you by mixing in the real hands with six fakes. The real hands both have tips. This means that glances won’t do. You’ll have to stare down your watch and actually focus to find the time.
Looks like Sony will be releasing a 400-disc ES Series Blu-ray “Ultra Player” soon, for people who never leave the house. If this isn’t big enough to hold all of your movies, you need to get out from in front of the TV more. Do you think anyone owns 400 Blu-Ray discs yet? Maybe one guy out there.
CNET has word that Sony’s been talking to some of the big recording labels about putting their music on the PlayStation Network for download, specifically for the PSP. It makes sense. The service already has a growing library of movies and TV shows. It’s just lacking music.
Lately there hasn’t been a ton of great titles for the Wii. But there is always the Virtual Console and all the classic titles. Why not play those games with the classic controllers they were written for? That’s where Komodo’s Retro Adapter comes in.
The Apple App Store is so massive that there are apps for just about everything an iPhone owner might want to do. If you want to lose weight, there is an app for that. If you want to keep in touch with friends there are apps for that and many other needs.
SSDs are slowly starting to replace traditional hard drives inside desktop computers and notebooks. The change is happening faster in the enterprise market where SSDs can save companies lots of money thanks to their significantly reduced electricity needs.
There was so much to see at CES 2009 back in January that I missed a lot of it. Each year at the show, there are some very interesting products that define new categories and let people do things that many haven’t even thought of.
Netflix has been around for a while now with its mail order movie rentals. The service proved so popular that it has put a serious crimp in the rental business of some of the big players like Blockbuster. Netflix also offer a 12,000 title streaming library.
Fitness-oriented games continue to hit Nintendo’s systems and it doesn’t look like it will slow down anytime soon. Now Nintendo is launching their
Listen, if you actually need this, there is no hope for you at all. You are basically an overweight baby who can’t figure out how to control your food and stop spilling all over yourself. Chances are you have food stains on your clothes, all over your car’s interior and so much ranch dressing on your dash board that you can barely read the odometer. Frankly I’m surprised you don’t have a carbonite frozen Bounty on your wall at home.
On Tuesday Nokia added the 6600i slide to its roster. It’s Nokia’s smallest slider yet, with a 5-megapixel camera that includes dual LED flashes. That brushed-metal housing should get your slider some attention. It also has a tap interface for quickly waking the phone, muting alerts and ringtones, as well as turning down calls.
The Samsung S5200 has suddenly appeared on the company’s Italian website’s ‘coming soon’ section, so we should be seeing it fairly soon. The S5200 is presented as an ultra-slim, fashionable phone that features a 2.1 inch display screen, a 3.2 megapixel camera with LED flash, Bluetooth and a media player.