While the download service allows Sony to exploit its library of ageing PlayStation code and link together its current console and handheld offerings, many gamers are up in arms that the downloaded games can't be played on the PS3 itself. Although the PS3 is backward-compatible with older PlayStation discs, the downloaded games have been coded to run only on the PSP.

Of course, gaming enthusiasts outside the US and Japan can't take advantage of any of this yet, as the PS3 isn't scheduled for international release until March 2007.
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