14 DAY TRIAL // Sony has announced that it has entered into a partnership with publisher Electronic Arts aimed at offering a new PSP Madden NFL 11 bundle. Pairing up the handheld and the new version of the American football title has been a tradition for a few years now. The newly announced Madden NFL 11 PlayStation Portable bundle will include: one black colored PSP-3000 handheld video game console and the UMD based version of Madden NFL 11 and the official PlayStation blog from Sony says that it will cost players 169.99 dollars. The bundle will be launched on August 10, the same day when the regular edition of the game will arrive.
[ADMARK=]Sony is also hinting at more initiatives aimed to rise the profile of the PlayStation Portable and make the handheld a threat to the Nintendo DS again. At the E3 trade show the company has its new spokesman, Kevin Butler, introduce a protege, named Marcus Rivers, who will be doing the same type of publicity for the PSP. The consoles performance in the latest NPD Group numbers for North America have not been great.
Madden NFL 11 is set to introduce quite a few changes to how the sports simulation plays. The big addition is Game Flow, a new concept that offers the gamer choices related to his game plan based on the way the match has been developing up until that point. The developers at EA Sports are saying that the new system will reduce the time it takes to complete at game while also offering a deeper level of tactical play. The game also has a new Swagger stat that governs how players perform under pressure and changes have been made to how Madden NFL 11 looks.
Madden NFL 11 is set to also arrive on the PlayStation 3 from Sony, the PS2, the Xbox 360 from Microsoft, the Nintendo Wii and Apple powered devices.