Sony announces prices for downloadable PS1 games

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news via engadget

Hot on the heels of the big 3.0 firmware update for the PlayStation Portable, Sony's finally let loose its pricing plans for the forthcoming PS1 game downloads, although the downloads themselves are still apparently a few weeks away (unless you're in Japan, in which case you can get your Tekken 2 fix today). When they do show up, however, you can plan on dropping between $5.99 and $10.99 for the games, with each taking up between 140MB and 550MB on your Memory Stick Duo. The biggest sticking point for many PSP users, however, is that, as previously reported, you can't just download the games directly to your PSP -- instead, you have to download them onto your PS3's hard drive first and transfer 'em to your Memory Stick Duo from there. No problem for some but, last we checked, there's a heckuva lot more people with PSPs than PS3s, and at the rate things are going, that looks like it'll be the case for a while yet.

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[Makaveli777]

WAYYYY!!! Too much for the games. 5 dollars or less sounds more like it.

[LilSwish722]

wow. 5.99 - 10.99 for games plus 599.99 for the system then 249.99 for the other system and 2.99 for the usb cable but thats prolly not involved here. either way WAY too much for games. SCREW SONY

[punkypine]

wow. 5.99 - 10.99 for games plus 599.99 for the system then 249.99 for the other system and 2.99 for the usb cable but thats prolly not involved here. either way WAY too much for games. SCREW SONY

YEA LETS ALL BUY WII'S AND PURCHASE THEIR SIMILIARILY PRICED VIRTUAL CONSOLE GAMES.

[Hiei311]

cant u use ur own copys?

[mikebeaver]

YEA LETS ALL BUY WII'S AND PURCHASE THEIR SIMILIARILY PRICED VIRTUAL CONSOLE GAMES.

Not a bad idea, atleast the games availiable are to be played on the Wii, the whole point of a pSone emu for PSP, is to play PSone games on your PSP - there should be NO requirement of owning a PS3.
Wii = old games at x amount, playable on Wii
PSP = PSone games at x amount, downloaded onto PS3 at $500-$600 ( and thats if you get one off the shelf not on Ebay!), playable on PSP, might aswell just go to your local used store and buy a PSone, a small LCD attachable screen and a PSU, just as portable, lol.