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Video download service coming to US this summer

Posted on June 26th, 2008 at 09:03 EDT

President of Sony Computer Entertainment Kazuo Hirai has confirmed that the platform holder will be debuting its PlayStation Network movie download service in North America this summer.

Speaking at the company’s mid-term strategy meeting, Hirai stated the firm would be rolling out the service initially to US territories, with Japan and Europe receiving the feature at a later date.

Full details have yet to be revealed, although more information is expected to arrive some time next month.

Elsewhere, the company also revealed that over 9.8 million PSN accounts have been registered globally, with users accumulating in the region of 170 million downloads, equating to roughly 86 peta bytes of data.

“In the game segment, the two key drivers of new growth are non-game content and services in tandem with enhanced network capability,” stated the firm.

“Sony also expects to achieve profitability in this segment in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2009, a significant year-on-year improvement due to hardware cost reductions and an enhanced line-up of software titles for PlayStation 3."

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posted 9:07am EDT - June 26th, 2008
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Sounds intresting
posted 9:12am EDT - June 26th, 2008
2

This would mean that they have to start blocking access somehow to different region stores..

posted 9:13am EDT - June 26th, 2008
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Sounds interesting indeed.. Why can't ot be a global release? Or let Europe get it first, after-all, we are Sony's main territory now, and yet.. We still get shafted almost every week, I wish Sony would wake up and realise their consumers, who bought their console at a ridiculous price have been loyal to them, and yet.. WE STILL GET SHAFTED! Sony are begining to p!ss me off, they better deliver something, I'm becoming in-patient..
posted 9:19am EDT - June 26th, 2008
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qore is only on us and i still got it on europe, bring on this!

posted 9:21am EDT - June 26th, 2008
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Coming to Europe summer 2020

posted 9:35am EDT - June 26th, 2008
6

Is it not summer, already? Or is this one of those BS announcements that'll take a year to put into practice? Either way it'll be interesting to see what titles will be made availabe. I'm guessing it'll be nothing thats been released on DVD or BD in the past 12 months. Also how will this work? Will it be Peer-to-peer? Will you be able to pause a download so you can give your system a "rest" or play online at the same time?

posted 9:36am EDT - June 26th, 2008
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lol @ carl

can someone explain the stategy in giving this to america first? i dont want an answer saying because there country is bigger. but like EMO-MERCENARY says europe has been the strong area when it comes to sales and loyalty.

like you EMO im getting pretty annoyed also

 

posted 9:41am EDT - June 26th, 2008
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Doesn't the UK have some sort of service already with that deal with "play" or something?

posted 9:52am EDT - June 26th, 2008
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Yeah give it to the americans and F&&K everyone else, jesus christ did bush give mr sony sexual favours or something

posted 11:00am EDT - June 26th, 2008
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I love watch HD movies on my Full HD plasma and uncompress audio on my Dennon Receiver with klipsch audio tech. I guess I'm not buy this one.

posted 11:00am EDT - June 26th, 2008
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I love watch HD movies on my Full HD plasma and uncompress audio on my Dennon Receiver with klipsch audio tech. I guess I'm not buy this one.

posted 11:36am EDT - June 26th, 2008
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@LittleB69

OMG! that would mean only european store for me... that sucks

posted 11:42am EDT - June 26th, 2008
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I dont think the president of the u.s. has anything to do with sony's movie download service. Sony is competing with microsoft basically only in the u.s.  , so it makes sense....plus, we make all the movies you dorks!  lol   Also, I dont think this will affect region coding at all for psn, but maybe for the movies...

posted 12:27pm EDT - June 26th, 2008
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Ahh.  So this is what they've been doing instead of in-game XMB.  Well, it's a good move, so I guess it's worth it.

posted 12:35pm EDT - June 26th, 2008
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You're so right odium.... I was under the mistaken impression that a company can have different teams working on seperate tasks that they are best suited at. Silly me. I Forgot sony devs can do only one thing at a time.

posted 12:55pm EDT - June 26th, 2008
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No rush for UK, our broadband speeds are so slow it will take forever to download a movie. I downloaded 3 Kings (720p) from Xbox 360 store and it took 8 hours!!!

posted 1:46pm EDT - June 26th, 2008
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yes........the USA not us in the EU we get nothing unique from sony every1 else gets stuff before us and we get nothing good from SCEE, i'm sick of it........................... PSN ID: Jono_2007
posted 2:13pm EDT - June 26th, 2008
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Is everything in Europe so linear?  For a second, imagine a service coming out in a territory and only needing support for ONE language.  Then think about a lackluster SCEE already failing to deliver PSN goods.  And it would be an insane idea to think that the major competition between online services is in the US.

 

Silly Sony, if you want to attack Xbox Live, go to territories that have low amounts of 360s first.  And go to Europe first because they don't already have a DVR service for the PS3.

posted 3:13pm EDT - June 26th, 2008
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I think they are going to do the same as M$, and say it'll be released that night during E3...

posted 4:00pm EDT - June 26th, 2008
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awesome growth is definitely good

posted 1:19am EDT - June 27th, 2008
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So they say summer, so im going to have to wait till fall befor i can dowload any movies in the US

posted 7:11am EDT - June 27th, 2008
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@15

*

Well, Summer almost here (right now, it's still officially Spring), and we are about to get XMB and this IPTV thing.  So there were two teams.  I was being sarcastic in my post, what were you doing in yours?

posted 8:53pm EDT - June 27th, 2008
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psn id: gingo... yeah i expect europe to not see this for quite a while but when it finally comes it wll be amazing

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