Sony are releasing PSP Remasters, HD versions of top selling PSP titles like Monster Hunter. Most importantly (for us with an interest more in tech) the games are claimed to run on both PS3 and PSP. A single download executable running on both platforms, that scales properly on PS3 to an HD screen rather than being an image upscale, points to a brave new world.
Is this PSS in action? Or something of a PSP 'emulator' or cross-compiled API? the fact it only works on remakes points to the need of a middleware for the games, and no low-level trickery, so it can't be a plain vanilla emulator. But similarly it has to be pretty effective middleware for the PSP games to compare to their native PSP versions.
This also suggests strongly to me that next-gen, starting with NGP, will be more a case of games, not platforms, and these will run on both console and portable versions of Sony's PS platform. Downloading a game on PSN will be an entitlement to play the game on any PS device you own, and it'll be portable across them. At least, this'll be a taster of that, although releasing games that have already had success on PSP is going to impact buyers of the remakes, so it won't demonstrate the appeal of added value.
Is this PSS in action? Or something of a PSP 'emulator' or cross-compiled API? the fact it only works on remakes points to the need of a middleware for the games, and no low-level trickery, so it can't be a plain vanilla emulator. But similarly it has to be pretty effective middleware for the PSP games to compare to their native PSP versions.
This also suggests strongly to me that next-gen, starting with NGP, will be more a case of games, not platforms, and these will run on both console and portable versions of Sony's PS platform. Downloading a game on PSN will be an entitlement to play the game on any PS device you own, and it'll be portable across them. At least, this'll be a taster of that, although releasing games that have already had success on PSP is going to impact buyers of the remakes, so it won't demonstrate the appeal of added value.