In this morning's Sony press conference here at E3 2009, a lot of the excitement surrounded the announcement of the PSP Go and its design and online features and capabilities, but an interesting change on the developer side of things was mentioned Kaz Hirai's presentation.
With the new 16GB of built in flash memory and downloadable games library, it seems that Sony is going for something similar to the Apple App Store. But, to compare, they'll need a lot more titles for consumers to download. Maybe that's why Hirai mentioned that Sony would cut the cost of the PSP development tools by 80 percent today. Surely his goal is to kickstart PSP development, making it easier for developers to jump onboard and get to cranking out games.
Get to work, devs!
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5:36 PM on 06.02.2009
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So when I saw this, I could not help but shout out, "Thanks, Sony! I really appreciate it! As an average consumer, I've been dying to get one of those for a long time, but those kits are just too much money! This is the price cut I've been waiting for!"
*looks over Sony press conference* still 400 bucks? I'll pass.
This actually has ME interested in the fucking thing. Anybody have any idea how much this actually amounts to though? My internet Matlock is taking a nap.
"Hey, let's cram the start and select buttons into that little divot beside the left analog stick instead of putting a second analog stick here! Our customers do not need a second analog on this system, so we will taunt the ones who do!"
Hard lame, pathetic.
Sony will not sell me one of these.
Because it has bigger userbase than X360 and PS3 together?
Sony must do something to prevent piracy, and bring more 3rd party develeopers back to PSP. We need more games, who gives a f*ck about touch? I'm using my fone for browsing, I bought PSP for games.
Second nub would make 50 million PSPs on market non-compatibile with future games. Think.
not too hard when you think about it
I'm addicted to Hunting Monsters.