Sony made an announcement yesterday that should make its gaming devices’ owners happy. First of all, the company upgraded the PlayStation 3 firmware to version 2.01, which will bring increased stability during gameplay and surfing the Internet. On the consoles that feature backward compatibility, the update will sharpen the graphics upscaling for the PS 2 video games and will, as well, correct a remote start error that has become quite irritating for some users.

The Japanese company also announced the release of two games that use the PlayStation Eye camera: Operation Creature Feature and Aquatopia, which became available in the PlayStation Store for $4.99 and $1.99, respectively. Sony’s PlayStation Store will also offer a Need for Speed ProStreet Collector’s Edition upgrade for $9.99 and the extensive list of downloadable Rock Band tracks.

But the most important move that Sony revealed yesterday targets the PSP owners. The company launched the PlayStation Store for PC, which will allow the PlayStation Portable owners to download games from the PlayStation Store directly on their PCs. This decision represents a highly expected move, as until now the PSP gamers had to own also a PS3 for downloading all the games they want on it and then to move them to their Portables.

For being able to get their files from PCs to PSPs, the gamers have to previously download the firmware version 3.72 and a free PC program, the PlayStation Network Downloader.