Sony Japan has just formally announced its plan to introduce a comic book download service for the PSP to the PlayStation Store later this year

It’s expected that a similar service will also be made available in the US and, hopefully, in Europe too. Sony market research teams had been quizzing American PSP owners about what they’d think to a service like this back in March of this year, so we’ve been anticipating this announcement for a while now.

Unofficial PSP comic downloads have actually been around for years now, mostly for free. You can download them via a PC as a series of images then view them like a slideshow. The PSN downloads should be a little fancier than that, allowing you to pan around the page, zoom in and out, or just set it to auto-flow whereby the PSP just moves from panel to panel automatically.

Via Play Magazine