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There was much confusion, at least in my head, about how exactly the new Playstation 3 background downloading was going to work.
The problem, it seems, was that the US press release and UK press didn't exactly jibe with one another. Jibe... I like that word..
So I emailed David Karraker, head of SCEA PR, to get to the bottom of things and I've got some relatively good news for you.
You can play games and download in the background, you just can't play online. So playing offline in a single player mode is doable, but once you hop into multiplayer or something that uses the network the download pauses.
When the online portion ends, the download resumes without any lost data. Hazzah!
PS3 1.6 Firmware Details Confirmed [Kotaku, thanks Tycho for reminding me to look into this.]
