PSN: Capcom Plan To Bring PSP, PSOne Games To PSN Store!
Over at the Capcom Unity forums, Christian Svensson - Vice-President of Strategic Planning & Business Development at Capcom has given a heads up for what the company has in mind for the PlayStation Network Store in the future.
Sven states than "Sony has recently approached us about getting more of our legacy content up on the PSN store" - being their classic PSP and PSOne titles. The difficulty right now is getting the masters of the discs - it cannot simply be burned from your regular retail copy in the case their are small errors, or slight version variations as there were with some earlier titles. Sega's Sonic The Hedgehog for example, has 3 ROM variants fixing numerous bugs. Many Capcom masters are over in Japan, so it is not such a simple job.
Sven' goes on to say that "The first titles you see appearing from us will be some of our better PSP titles that are difficult to find at retail". Which is essentially everything outside of the Classic Collections or Monster Hunter franchise, titles like Mega Man Powered Up, Mega Man Maverick Hunter X, Street Fighter III Third Strike, Ultimate Ghosts 'N Goblins, Darkstalkers and a whole lot more.
If Mega Man Powered Up does come to the PSN as strictly the PSP version, this would dowse hope of a port of the game to the Xbox Live Arcade and as a PSN title, which I believe a lot more people would be hoping for.
After a few PSP titles, they would then plan on releasing some classic PSOne titles on the service, so Strider 2, Mega Man Legends, Tron Bonne and the Resident Evil titles might get a breath of fresh air once again.
Right now this is only planned for the North American store - and if that is considered a viable platform would then move to the European store - however, PAL masters might be that little more difficult to track down than their US counterparts. Japan has already released some PSOne games in the Resident Evil and Dino Crisis franchises, and in terms of PSP games, only games published by SCE have been released online, so this is a step forward for them.
Source: Kombo: Capcom Bringing PSP Games to PSN via Capcom Unity BBS
Comments
I didn't think that SFIII was on the PSP. Only SF Alpha Max. Still considering that the game is only available in Arcades and on the Dreamcast in PAL regions then this would be a fantastic incentive for us.
Posted by: Daniel Primed | June 17, 2008 5:05 AM