PlayStation Network ‘expanding to other hardware', says Sony
What other hardware?
Sony’s answer to Xbox Live hasn’t been the shining star it had hoped, mainly because there aren’t that many PS3 owners (zing!), but just as it’s been doing with the PSP lately, Sony finally appears to be getting behind its product.
“Next we will be expanding the PlayStation Network to hardware other than the PS3,” says Sony boss Howard Stringer, “because the number of PS3 units sold puts a limit on the scale of the network possible.”
An excellent idea, but we have to wonder what hardware he’s actually talking about. Naturally this hardware will need an internet connection, and since the PSP already has access to its own area of the PSN, he must be talking about something else.
It could, perhaps, be a connection through the PC, though clearly it’s not going to be a rival console. Gasp! Could it be the PSP 2 (or PSP Go!, if you prefer (and we don’t))? Possibly even the PSP phone, or some other Sony Ericsson mobile device?
According to Pocket Gamer’s inside source, we’ll know before too much longer, and certainly before the year is out. For now, it's good to know that Sony is showing interest in gaming again.
