Peer-to-Peer downloading on PS3?

At the moment, people downloading videos, games and other content from the PlayStation Store do so using a direct connection to the servers at Sony. Ultimately, this means downloads can be on the slow side and can take an awful long time to complete (and that’s before the installation).

However, some news inside Gran Turismo 5 Prologue reveals that this might be about to change.

The other day, GT5 Prologue received a hefty update which improved online play, added new music and backgrounds for the menu screens, fiddled with the handling model a little, sped up download times for updates and launched the video-on-demand Gran Turismo TV service.

GTTV bundles together automotive documentaries on the world of cars (featuring insights into development of cars and tours of factories, etc) as well as motorsport from Japan and episodes of TV shows such as the Japanese motoring show Best Motoring and the UK programme Top Gear. Some content is free, but the commercial content retails for 69p/99¢ for a 2 week rental period.

Currently, the downloads are performed with a direct link to Sony’s PlayStation Network servers, meaning videos are downloaded using a direct HTTP connection. This means that downloads are nippy when nobody else is using them, but otherwise they chug along at a pedestrian pace. After the recent update download speeds have been improved (and background downloading is supported from inside the game as you play; GT5P is one of the first games to support this feature) but Sony and Polyphony plan to take this a step further, as far as I can see.

Read the whole article @ Sarcastic Gamer

Get a Free PS3! Yes, that is correct! Stay away from the hassles of earning enough to pay for it for you can get it the simple way .... straight to your doorstep! Free! Interested? Then find out how to get a Free PS3!