The 6.20 firmware approach in Japan

SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT JAPAN has announced a new firmware for the PSP will be available next Thursday. The firmware 6.20 will therefore its appearance and bring with him a comic book viewer that can be directly retrieved from the PlayStation Store.

More precisely, the firmware 6.20 will bring a new icon on the XMB, called Extra, which is found in the Comic Reader ... But a priori, only for Japan yet.

Playable on any PSP, these digital comics will be sold 420 yen (about $ 5) per volume. The reader will be able to recover sections of a comic book for a price ranging between 50 and 150 yen (1 to 2 dollars).

We still await an official announcement for the availability of service on the PlayStation Store U.S. and European markets, but remember that exit during 2010 "was announced for Europe.

Read on PSP soon?