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greenmedic88 on 01 May 2009
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smbu2000 said:
greenmedic88 said:

SCE could potentially sell an external UMD drive to transfer UMD games to a PS3 HDD which would then act as a game server to upload PSP games to internal memory (like iTunes/iPod), with security/piracy issues being the most difficult problems to solve. There's no reason why such a system wouldn't allow PSP users to access their entire PSP game libraries remotely on their PS3 either.

 

Well the first problem with that is not everybody has a PS3. I have a PSP (1000) and my gf has a PSP (3000), but neither of has a PS3.

Second: What's to stop people from renting/borrowing from friends, PSP UMD games and ripping them and then just returning them. Free game right there even if they don't own it.

There isn't any more than there is a system to keep people from distributing their PSP games purchased through PSN to multiple PSPs. It could be done (already uses a hardware authentification process), just as that same system could be circumvented, but as I already said, that's the engineering challenge.

PSP games can be bought through the PSN Store via PC/media manager today. Stored on any basic PC.

In all likelihood, SCE would just have people simply BUY their games (again) through PSN which is obviously not going to happen in most cases.

I'm half expecting SCE to do this with PS2 games distributed through PSN if they ever do full software emulation (after PS2 software retail sales have run their course which could be years).