We've heard rumors about them for a while, but now it's finally been revealed that the Sony PSP is getting its answer to "Apps." These freshly dubbed PSP Minis are small, 100MB games that take advantage of smaller development costs to provide quick, bite-sized games.
The service launches on October 1, and will have fifteen games when it debuts, with a whole FIFTY planned for 2009. Among the confirmed games are Tetris, Fieldrunners, Hero of Sparta and MiniGore. The latter two are iPhone games, meaning that Apple's titles are going multiplatform. Pretty hot news.
This has instantly made the PSP ten times more exciting to me. It has to be better than DSiWare, for sure.
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12:22 PM on 08.18.2009
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You are right, Sony is focusing on Digital Media/DLC. That is it for the PSPGO. You might as well get an iphone which is better than a PSP, even though the iphone doesn't have many first party games,it is just better and basically free.
The DSi can do it because every Nintendo game is fun, and there are lots of Nintendo games along with third part games.
Hopefully they'll get some exclusives soon...
Plus I like the ability to use my phones 3G. I know the PSPgo isn't meant to compete with the iPhone but while we're comparing the two...
As someone who just bought Hero of Sparta, I can say that the Go! and the Appstore are only 'kind-of' competing. If you want Hero of Sparta or a similar game, and have a choice of platform, you'd be an idiot to go for the iPhone over the Go!. Meanwhile, I'll stick to my iPod Touch for the myriad of great Tower Defense games on the Appstore, blow using a thumbstick of D-pad for them. The platforms are different enough that even with similar products, its hard to directly compare them and make any meaningful overall choice.
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