Sony's PS3 now lets you pre-buy and pre-download new games

Unless you have fast interconnection, downloading games through the PlayStation Network can take forever. Sony is adding a new feature to their PlayStation Network that lets gamers pre-download un-released games in advanced.

If you ever used Steam's pre-download and pre-load feature to download games, then you are at home. On the PlayStation Network, you can download the un-released game to your PS3's hard-drive. This does not mean that you can play the game early because the game will be locked until the game is released.

The benefit of this feature is that it allows users to download the games faster (because not everyone will downloading it at once). Rather than trying to attempted to download the game in one go on the games release date.

It is ready to go on Europe's PlayStation Network. The feature will be making it to the North American PlayStation Network soon.