Friday, August 14, 2009

Sony working on a PSP non-game app store?


Now that Sonys committed itself to downloadable games with the PSP Go, its only natural to wonder where that strategy might lead -- and the hot buzz says theres an "app store" of sorts due in August at Gamescom. The new section of the Playstation Store will supposedly impose a 100MB limit on content and set prices in the $2 - $6 range, but otherwise have no restrictions, meaning devs will be free -- and even encouraged -- to code up non-game apps as well. Of course, youll still be able to snag other PSP titles from the other parts of the store, but if this actually happens itll be interesting to see if Sony can channel some of the energy from the vibrant PSP homebrew scene into a more legit distribution channel. Well keep an eye out.