Sometimes things happen that weren’t originally intended. Sometimes an ill-conceived or under planned idea can later turn into an absolute winner simply by tweaking one or two aspects, expanding or adding a missing ingredient to help it hit the big time.

Case in point is Sony’s Playstation Network; the platform from which PS3 owners can access and download content such as games and movies. All well and good, but certainly not world-changing. At a management meeting in Japan today, Sony seems to have had a brainwave though – announcing its (very vague) plans to turn the PSN into an online service that’ll benefit a much bigger range of Sony devices.

- Xbox 360 gets Twitter, Facebook and Last.fm
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The Sony Online Service (SOS?), as it’s being called, will be an online centre akin to iTunes that’ll gladly shift e-books to your Sony Reader, Movies to your PS3 or Vaio, games to your PSP and music to your Walkman all at the same time.

It’s a neat tweak that’ll certainly add life and a new dimension of use to a raft of Sony products; not least of which the Sony PS3, which is currently locked in a battle with the Xbox 360 over which machine can turn into a truly all-encompassing media/entertainment hub first.

Details are scarce to say the least, but we’ll keep you posted when we hear more.

Link: Sony (Via Engadget)
 

Full published article at: http://www.t3.com/news/playstation-network-to-morph-into-multimedia-hawking-sony-online-service?=42373&cid=OTC-RSS&attr=T3-News-RSS

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