The Chief Executive Officer of Sony Computer Entertainment has stated that the PlayStation Portable Go, which lacked a UMD drive or a removable battery, had a poor launch and subsequent sales because of the smaller market it catered to.Kaz Hirai, who is the leader of SCE, told MCV in an wide ranging interview that, &... |
13 September 2010
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The CEO of Sony has stated that despite being on of the leaders when it comes to pushing digitally distributed video games and content the company does not plan to make any of its consoles to completely eliminate the physical disks that are now so ubiquitous.Kaz Hirai, who is the Chief Executive Officer of Sony Compu... |
30 August 2010
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The good news is that North American players now have access to the DSi XL handheld from Nintendo, which has a significantly bigger screen than the regular version. The bad news is that all of the videogames that players have already bought from the DSiWare service cannot be in any way moved to a new XL, because the ... |
1 April 2010
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The PSP Mini program has just debuted on the PlayStation Portable Go and there are already rumors saying that the titles offered through it might also be available on the PlayStation 3 home gaming console for all those who are interested in bite-sized portions of gaming designed with a more casual audience in mind.Mu... |
7 December 2009
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The PlayStation Portable Go, the new handheld from Sony, was released on October 1 and along with it Sony also outed the first games in the PSP Mini range, which is set to offer small, easy to download and play and, more crucially, cheap titles for the fresh device. Unfortunately, it seems that their pricing is a maj... |
9 October 2009
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It seems that Sony was well aware that some retailers and some players would not be too pleased with the PlayStation Portable Go and with the lack of transfer for UMD games to the PlayStation Network. But the company is saying that until now, it is mostly satisfied with how the public has received the new handheld.Cl... |
2 October 2009
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The PlayStation Portable Go, Sony's most recent handheld, is out now and one of its major selling points is that it gets all of its content from the PlayStation Network, which means that players do not need to carry around any UMD disks in order to enjoy their favorite videogames or videos. The console is equipp... |
1 October 2009
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Sony seems to be abandoning all the plans to allow gamers who own titles on the old UMD format for the PlayStation Portable to get them as a digital download on the new Go console, which is set to be released on October 1. Initially, Sony said that it was looking into the possibility of setting up a program allowing ... |
28 September 2009
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Concurrent with the release of the PlayStation Portable Go!, which is set to be launched shortly, Sony has announced that it plans to introduce a new line of small titles called PSP Minis, which are set to be quick-to-create, easy-to-approve and -to-download by the player, offering experiences akin to those offered b... |
21 September 2009
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One of the reasons for the PlayStation Portable not doing as well as it could against the Nintendo DS was the fact that piracy drove away some of the developers from creating videogames for the platform.Sony seems to be catching up with the PSP Go! and one of the steps that it has taken to reduce piracy has been to m... |
1 September 2009
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Sony has placed a big bet on the success of the PlayStation Portable Go, the new device, officially unveiled at E3, which is set to be released this fall. Designed in part as the firm's response to the success of the new Nintendo DSi, the PSP Go still has some problems, in the eyes of analysts, like the price ta... |
15 July 2009
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Sony has long said that it does not want to compete with the iPhone and the various clones of the Apple product that make it on the market. The official position of the Japanese company is that the existence of such products only emphasizes the “premium” position on the market that the PlayStation Portabl... |
30 June 2009
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Microsoft and Sony have long said that the multimedia possibilities of the gaming consoles that they offer make them ideal to play movies, watch TV shows and get content until now only available on the PC or on the TV. And, given the fact that the former’s sales seems to grow month by month, Sony is decided to ... |
29 June 2009
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