Buy your games on PSN Amazon: partnership with Sony that will hurt.

Yesterday morning, Sony Computer Entertainment America and Amazon.com have announced have launched a partnership that allows Amazon customers to purchase content available on PSN through the Amazon site. By visiting the Amazon Videogame Store, customers can now buy PSN content and then download it through a download code sent by Amazon. This service offers its opening more than 200 titles available for PSP and PS3.

Following this announcement, IGN was able to meet the director of PlayStation Network Eric Lempel, to ask him some questions about this service. Lempel said that people easily buy things they need via Amazon and that this partnership is great news for customers of Playstation.

 This partnership shows that the sales system via the PlayStation Store is not incompatible with the traditional selling system. This bridge between two platforms of sale is a glaring example that Sony seeks and finds solutions for power system show that the sale of intangible games can be done in partnership with resellers. With Amazon, Sony marked a serious point by binding with another giant and not less. Unfortunately for us, this system is currently valid only for the Anglo-Saxon, but is a good start and could be extended to the whole world if the system is bearing fruit.

IGN has the opportunity to ask some general questions on the NHP and addressed, first, the recasting of the friends list of PSN for the PS3. Lempel said that the addition of a trophy next to the username of a friend was "definitely taken into account, among other things. He also said that Sony would add more avatars and that is imminent. At the last question on the support of voice chat while playing games, Lempel said that Sony was trying to simplify the integration of this option for the current developers. So underway but no date of service has been planned.