Posts Tagged ‘psp store’

Buy Sony PSP Go – Quick Buying Q&A

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

We get emails everyday from people asking whether or not they should buy the PSP Go so we thought we’d place them all in one post to help out any one who has similar questions.

The most common one is “Should I buy a PSP Go?” – unfortunately there is no easy answer.

It all depends on what you are most ‘into’, do you prefer the slick styling of gadgets over price? Are you happy downloading your games?

A lot of people like physically having their games and many don’t care about what it looks like as long as it plays games. You get people declaring the ‘no one should buy a psp go because XYZ’ but that is solely based on their point of view. The PSP Go is  better than the PSP, it improves on game distribution and looks while maintaining the amazing graphics that the PSP has always been prized for.

Eventually all systems will use purely digital formats, you can seen it happening more and more with the introduction of downloadable PC games (Steam), the iTunes Store. Even in consoles which no boast ‘stores’ of their own where users can download games from.

Sony is moving towards the cutting edge of technology and, while it may not be to everyone’s taste, it certainly improves on the current system.

Another question we get a lot is “is X game coming out for the PSP Go”. The reason this is a difficult question to answer is that Sony and other distributers are staying quiet.

There will be hundreds of games available come release day but people always make specific requests, the thing is that the more successful the PSP Go is the more distributers will start putting their games on the PSP Go store. Once it has been released I imagine all those people that said it was ‘awful’ will slowly come around once they physically see it in action.

We hope this helps everyone!

Sony Confirm PSP Go ‘App Store’ Rumors

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

Yesterday Sony announced that they are planning a special addition to the PSN store which will provide bite-sized applications and games which are supposed to be downloaded in just a few minutes. Even more reason to buy the PSP Go – Sony’s newest handheld!

When talking to ‘develop’ (a software developers magazine) the head of developer relations said that Sony are “making games that are just 20MB each, that’s less than a minute to download – instant gratification, snackable content.”

This means that the PSP Go will now definitely have applications, games and utilities that (Sony hope will) rival Apple’s app store.

Sony PSP Go Rivaling iTunes App Store?

Friday, June 26th, 2009

There have been reports that Sony is going to launch an iTunes style application store.

They already have the Playstation network so the technology is all there and set up. The news is that Sony is asking developers to create smaller applications around 5-10MB in order to take advantage of the PSP Go’s new built in storage.

This could be seen as a good or bad move by Sony. The applications will work on all current PSP systems so developers have a massive incentive to take advantage of the huge market already out there. The problem is that Sony may not be as generous as iTunes with their 70% share for developers, if Sony was to squeeze developers’ margins then they could shoot themselves in the foot.