Sony Computer Entertainment has unveiled the digital reader for PlayStation Portable (PSP), a new service that will allow PSP owners to access a range of media on their PSP.
According to Sony, the digital reader will be available with the Digital Comics service in the UK, US, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and SA PlayStation stores this December, with other phase alternating line territories to follow in 2010.
PSP users will have access to digital comics and other graphic novels after downloading the digital reader from the PlayStation Store. This will include content from Marvel Entertainment, IDW Publishing, and iVerse Media, among others, the company says.
More titles will be added with monthly content updates, which users will be able to download when they are connected to a WiFi hotspot anywhere in the world, Sony adds.
Isabelle Tomatis, European marketing manager of hardware and platforms for Sony Computer Entertainment, says: “Digital Comics will sit alongside the new PlayStation Network video delivery service as yet another way that PSP offers a whole world of entertainment in your hands.”
Ira Rubenstein, executive vice-president for the global digital media group at Marvel Entertainment, adds: “PSP's new digital reader will extend the world of Marvel from print pages into the hands of fans around the world.”
According to Sony, the intuitive Autoflow feature of the PSP allows users to zoom in and move from frame to frame on each digital page, mimicking the way their eyes would move across a print page from left to right.
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