Harry Potter to headline Sony PlayStation video store

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will be available to download on Sony's brand new PlayStation video store upon its pre-Christmas launch later this month.

The adventures of everyone's favourite young wizard will join Bruno, Casino Royale, Star Trek, Transformers 2, Angels and Demons and Crank 2 as inaugural titles which will be downloadable to the PS3 and PSP.

Sony has inked deals with all the major studios, including Warner Bros, 20th Century Fox and Universal meaning we're likely to be greeted with all the major blockbusters (and Hannah Montana) as they're released.

 The store is slated for a November launch with HD and SD versions available.

Sony PSP Go sells just 28,000 on first day in Japan

The Sony PSP Go, the company's great hope of reviving its handheld gaming fortunes, appears to have fallen short of expectations after sales figures revealed a meagre 28,000 units were shifted in Japan on the first day.

The console, which ditches the unpopular UMD format for a 16GB hard-drive and downloadable games, hasn't performed nearly as well on home soil as the first two incarnations of the PSP. The original PlayStation portable sold 171,293 on day one in the land of the rising sun, with the PSP 2000 shifting a lofty 130,000 handheld beauties.

The good news for Sony is that the PSP Go performed 28-times better in Japan than it did in Australia, where it flogged, yes you guessed it, 1,000 consoles.



We don't have any UK (or US) figures yet, but we'd imagine the lofty price tag of £200 means it's unlikely to have performed any more triumphantly.

Digital Contents Expo Tokyo: Sony’s flashy stereoscopic 3D display (video)

Sony is demoing a 3D display at the Digital Contents Expo that takes place in Tokyo right now, and today I went there and made a few pictures and shot a video of the device, too. Two of the 360 stereoscopic displays were displayed to the general public, and the tech is pretty impressive.

The specs aren’t that great (96×128 resolution, 24-bit color palette), but this is just a first prototype.

Here’s how Sony thinks we one day could use the display: