Among the major announcements from Sony’s Gamescom press conference including video-on-demand and PS3 Slim, the highlight was PSP Minis. Sony announced a new range of downloadable PSP games, each of which comes in at under 100mb ensuring superfast download and installation.
Sony is making a big play about Minis on PSP. With the iPhone storming ahead in the handheld gaming arena, it clearly wants in on the action and used its Gamescom press conference to show off forthcoming tie ins with the likes of EA and a host of small time developers. From the press release:
“Fifteen games will be available initially, across a wide variety of genres including arcade-style games, racers, parlour games – and a few that defy categorisation! – with more than 50 games on offer by the end of the year in Europe and the PAL territories.”
The official line is, in fact, incredibly close to that of Apple’s App Store gaming policy. Sony says Minis on PSP is “designed to open the door to a broad range of developers,” bragging about smaller devs who are already hard at work on the platform.
The PSP Minis titles will be more affordable, in addition to smaller in size of 100MB or less. PSP Minis will debut with 15 titles, totaling 50 by the end of 2009.
Comic Reader Application
The PSP will also be getting a Digital Reader in December with various comic book publishers onboard to offer content. Marvel will be providing Spider-Man, X-Men, and Fantastic Four comics to start, with Wolverine, Captain America, Iron Man, and the Hulk all to follow.
This new service has been named Digital Comics and users would get the ability to download hundreds of new and classic comics from PlayStation Store to the console using the Wi-Fi connectivity.
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