Sony PSP to Get Adult Videos

June 17th 2005 | Games Consoles

Sony’s PlayStation Portable (PSP) will soon be opened up to a new and potentially lucrative market - porn. At least eight adult videos will go on sale in Japan exclusively for the PSP, and Sony says it has no power to stop them.

“It is difficult for us to impose restrictions,” said Sony Computer Entertainment spokesman Koichiro Katsurayama. He said Sony had shared the specifications for UMDs which do not need approval by the company, unlike PSP game titles which are all licensed.

It is also up to the porn video makers whether they will impose regional restrictions, such as blocking users from playing videos released in Japan on PSPs bought abroad.

The Sony spokesman said the PSP had a locking function that would let worried parents prevent their children from seeing adult videos on the game machine. He dismissed any idea that Sony saw porn as a commercial boost for the PSP, much in the way that adult titles helped spread videocassette players in the 1970s and 1980s.

More at AFP via Yahoo.

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Sony PSP to Get Adult Videos
Published in: Games Consoles on 2005-06-17