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Sony keeps flip-flopping over adding music downloads to the PlayStation Network (PSN). After scrapping plans to add a music store to the gaming network—complete with the ability for gamers to port tracks to the handheld PSP—comes news that the company will indeed expand the PSN into a full digital download store, with music, books, as well as mobile apps available. It has been tentatively (and blandly) named the “Sony Online Service.”
SCEA President Kaz Hirai said the company was thinking about charging PSN members for “premium content,” since they currently can use the network to play games with each other for free; the new music and content store would be in addition to the growing library of movie and TV show downloads, as well as streaming content from Netflix that people can already get through the PSN. Full story...
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