Sony Corporation and several major record companies on the PSP portable music download service for the talks. Playing music is the key functions of the PSP, the talks will likely PlayStation presage the birth of online music stores.

According to Cnet Web site reported that Sony and the record company is only a preliminary discussion, but also did not sign any substantive agreement. However, Sony hopes PSP as a portable iPod competitor, but also with the future GPRS/EDGE/3G phone support as well as iPhone, Nokia MusicXpress, Nokia N Series and Sony Ericsson Walkman music phone to compete.

Sony will next month launch a new PSP. The new PSP will be dedicated to abandon the former UMD discs, and built-in 8GB or 16GB flash memory to store game data and multimedia. The new PSP portable design with the PSP is very different: the game design of the control button to the bottom of the slide on the screen part. Changes in the new version of PSP is very large, it is said it will be named the “PlayStation Portable Go!”.

PlayStation Network to join the music download service, PSP users can not only use it to download music, PS3 video game users can enjoy the convenience. In the future will be a PS3 game developed into a powerful multimedia centers.