If you have a PS3 or just got one chances are you’re ready to get down to business and enjoy your console, but outside of the games you have what else is there? Well luckily Sony in their infinite wisdom gave gamers a service to connect with one another and find things called the Playstation Network. It offers a vast wealth of free PS3 downloads for your viewing pleasure. Let’s take a look at what they have to offer.

To start things off you have access to the Playstation network. This is where you will get most of your downloads from. They have everything from game demos, preview movies, movie previews, and games. Yes you can download games via the Playstation network. You can even Hook up your PSP to your PS3 and transfer stuff back and forth between them.

This can unlock a few things for games on the PSP but mainly it allows you to load it with some games. The Playstation network has what they call PS1 classics. There are the classic games we played when the original Playstation was at the height of its glory. These can be put on the PSP and taken on the road.

As you can see this is a neat thing to do. Everyone loves to be able to take games with them. But in addition to this you can also play the classics on the PS3 console. In addition to that you can also store music on it and make it an mp3 player until you get the money to buy some games. The games themselves are getting kind of cheap now so you will be able to grab a few eventually.

Registering with the PSN is a breeze. Once this is done you have access to the network and can stay in contact with friends. Updates are performed quite frequently so do not be alarmed if it looks different next time you log on. Nice little service for being free isn’t it?

If you have any games that support downloadable content then you’ll be able to update them here. Every next gen console can connect to the internet and developers have taken advantage of this. You will be able to find maps and patches via the PSN and apply them without hassle. In case you don’t know what patches are they are small pieces of programming released by the developers to fix bugs in games.

To wrap things up the am mount of free PS3 downloads is quite staggering. All you need is an internet connection and hard drive. The amount of media available to watch is quite staggering. Remember its not just games anymore you can watch movie clips now.