First off, the stuff, Sony telling IGN that “16,000 pieces of digital content” will be available for purchase on October 1, the day of the handheld’s launch. It’s a big number, but one that’s skewed by the 13,300 TV shows available; a more relevant figure is that there’ll be 225 games spread across “full PSP titles, PSN exclusives, UMD legacy titles and Minis”.
Next, the cards, an olive branch of sorts to stores that may or may not be upset about the prospect of stocking a console with no game downloads.
These aren’t pre-paid cards like you can already get for the PSN; instead, they’re for specific titles, with God of War, Gran Turismo, Daxter, Patapon 2, Secret Agent Clank and Twisted Metal: Head-on to be offered for sale via these specific cards.
Aliasalpha
Monday, September 28, 2009 at 11:28 PMIt’ll be interesting to see the list of games, also whether the cards will be useful for all PSPs (I assume they’d have to be)
Mario maniac
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 at 12:12 AMYay, this is exactly what I said Sony could do. ^_^ Perhaps now EB may have a reason to stock the Go systems.
dead5ega
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 at 3:17 PMYeah hopefully retailers will be getting in these Pre-paid cards to sell and maybe get some decent profit of it, my Boss at our Store is not keen at all in stocking them due to the low profit margin we’ll get off them, hopefully these cards might try and fill the UMD-less game void.
TheMoth
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at 12:23 AMCan u even buy PSN cards in Australia?