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Sony Unveils New Development Strategy For PSP

Dedication Through Light said:
So now everything is going to have "an appstore" this is getting insane. isnt there a blackberry appstore, nokia appstore, android appstore, microsoft appstore, adobe airstore, psp appstore,

I guess we can never have too many tower defense replicates and bejeweleds.
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So what you're saying is that you'd like less places to buy games from?
 
gcubed said:
Great article MCF/Develop.

Sony is definitely starting to react correctly... if they want to be serious about the PSP as a media device (and their new media players) they need their own music marketplace to accompany the video... it needs to be much easier to navigate and preferably steal a ZunePass like feature which would be awesome. This "app store" is a step in the right direction, but to prevent me from wanting to use a Zune for my music player, they need to offer me something on the lines of a music marketplace.
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Yeah, I really hope that they do a Music Store too. Makes sense, you have Game, Video, and Music. And given how well they did the Video store in just under a year, a Music one would be full of win.

ShockingAlberto said:
Unless you're looking at the price.
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PSP 3k is 170.
 
carlosp said:
as you can see PSP Go is directly positioned to fight against iphone as the #1 mobile gaming machine and looking at the price of an iphone PSP GO is a steal. You will be able to you skype anyway like already possible.
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It wont topple the iphone app store in that regard, not now or anytime soon.
 
gofreak said:
You can't look backwards. What do you want Sony to say.. 'ho-hum, we should have had this from the start, so let's not bother at all'?

Better to do these things late than never. It's one thing you can say about Sony at least..even when their stuff underperforms relative to expectations they still stick by it and try new stuff. It would have been easy to leave the PSP fizzle, software-wise - and it seemed like they were going to do that - until their next round of hardware was ready. But they're not, they're still trying new stuff with it, still 'giving it a go'.
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Indeed, this can only be seen as a positive step, even if it's a bit late.

A PSP App store + lots of smaller games at bite sized pieces is full of win.
DMeisterJ said:
Yeah, I really hope that they do a Music Store too. Makes sense, you have Game, Video, and Music. And given how well they did the Video store in just under a year, a Music one would be full of win.
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Yes it would, the PSP is a capable music player, it doesn't make sense that Sony hasn't developed a music store for it yet.
 
ShockingAlberto said:
Unicorns can fly?


I don't know why we're responding to each other's posts with clear strawmen but you started it so I assume you have a reason.
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I know you were talking about the Go price. But having recognised there is a good debate to be had on that, I was subtly suggesting that this isn't what the thread about. There's another thread for that.
 
Stop It said:
Indeed, this can only be seen as a positive step, even if it's a bit late.

A PSP App store + lots of smaller games at bite sized pieces is full of win.

Yes it would, the PSP is a capable music player, it doesn't make sense that Sony hasn't developed a music store for it yet.
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Has any gaming company ever done anything close to what would make sense?
 
There are a lot of PSP's sold out there. A ready-made userbase of >50m is a very good opportunity for a small but enterprising developer.

I think all the disbelief and anger over the price of the Go has kind of gotten in the way of the basic fact that even if the new SKU falls flat on its face, Sony still stand to make a load of $$$ if they can successfully revive the fortunes of the PSP platform's software. The razors and razorblades analogy still holds.

I'm beginning to wonder if the Go's pricing is as much as anything a stunt to big-up the perceived value of the PSP's software. I mean who's to say that a month or two after launch Sony can't slash $100 off of its price if sales are slow, what do they stand to lose? They can make some fast cash off of the early adopters but the real money is coming from software sales - and that userbase should be static at worst irrespective of the fate of the pspGO.
 
Wollan said:
Buttons!
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Hell yea! Game that will actually control well, stoked!
 
gofreak said:
The Go pricing, particularly in some territories, is steep. But it's worth bearing in mind that there is still a cheaper unit that'll have access to all this DD stuff too.

The whole strategy is definitely about profitability and curbing piracy though, absolutely..the latter in particular is necessary to bring devs back.
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No doubt, but I think that everyone who is still paying attention to this platform is looking at PSP Go. And when that pricing is jacked like it is, that is a huge problem. We'll see, but I'm seriously blown away by Sony's decision making. It's always, seemingly, one step forward and two steps back with them. Don't get me wrong...this is more forward thinking a strategy than I would have ever imagined Sony going for...but why do they always have to tinge it with some stupid move, like the one on price?
 
Sony is no slouch when it comes to copying people's concept/strategy.... except price point.
O wait, the GO is suppose to copy iPod Touch's price.
 
Blu_LED said:
But I can see it having much better quality then the iPhone App Store, which is all I care about.
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If you look at it in terms of Shit-to-Quality ratio, then probably yes.

but the sheer volume of the Iphone store will allows for a larger amount of quality games. Though they may be hidden within tons of trash, there will always be a bigger variety to choose from.
 
very low price points
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YAY
abolishing concept approval
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BOO

Sorry, but making these services "anything goes" rarely leads to good things. Expect many decent games to struggle to stay visible in a sea of fart apps and aquarium simulators.
 
Shig said:
Sorry, but making these services "anything goes" rarely leads to good things. Expect many decent games to struggle to stay visible in a sea of fart apps and aquarium simulators.
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If so, that's a problem of the service/interface, not the concept. There are hundreds of thousands of books on Amazon that I don't want to buy, yet it makes it easy to find ones that interest me.

So yay "anything goes".
 
It's not totally everything goes in that you need to still be 'big enough' to get a psp kit and i think a publisher (no?). So there's a bar there developers have to meet at least, albeit quite a low one. For qualifiying devs the lack of concept approval means they can make what they like, but they still have some low-ish level of qualifying criteria for the devs.
 
XTERC said:
pspGO has BlueTooth, my phone has BlueTooth. Does this mean I can access the internet via the pspGO?
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Blu_LED said:
I'm pretty sure that's what they are planning.
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gamerecks said:
Maybe an app from the gostore would allow it.
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i hope these are joke posts.... all PSPs already have a web browser and bluetooth has nothing to do with it. bluetooth is what motivates my roomate to wait for the Go -- he likes the idea of using his bluetooth headphones and has no problem with the $250 price.
 
Shig said:
Sorry, but making these services "anything goes" rarely leads to good things. Expect many decent games to struggle to stay visible in a sea of fart apps and aquarium simulators.
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:lol you doomsayers are ridiculous. proper organization can eliminate this problem.

open development platforms are a good thing. democratization of gaming brings innovation. the good games still get spotlight.
 
dfyb said:
i hope these are joke posts.... all PSPs already have a web browser and bluetooth has nothing to do with it.
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Technically, without a wi-fi source, the pspgo cant access the internet. Using tethering through a cell phone might be useful.
 
dfyb said:
i hope these are joke posts.... all PSPs already have a web browser and bluetooth has nothing to do with it. bluetooth is what motivates my roomate to wait for the Go -- he likes the idea of using his bluetooth headphones and has no problem with the $250 price.
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I don't think you understand. They are talking about using Bluetooth to tether your PSP to your phone to allow connectivity over 3G networks.

Before everyone gets too excited, these types of plans are usually fairly expensive (around $50/month or so), which makes it useless unless you have a lot of disposable income or you're using a business phone where price is not an issue.
 
dammitmattt said:
I don't think you understand. They are talking about using Bluetooth to tether your PSP to your phone to allow connectivity over 3G networks.

Before everyone gets too excited, these types of plans are usually fairly expensive (around $50/month or so), which makes it useless unless you have a lot of disposable income or you're using a business phone where price is not an issue.
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Bingo, its the least my company can do for having the ability to bother me 24/7
 
gamerecks said:
Technically, without a wi-fi source, the pspgo cant access the internet. Using tethering through a cell phone might be useful.
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ah, i read it like he thought that his cellphone can access the internet with bluetooth, so maybe the PSP Go could, too.

one complication with tethering would be running an app (to tether) while also running the web browser or game to access the net.
 
dfyb said:
:lol you doomsayers are ridiculous. proper organization can eliminate this problem.

open development platforms are a good thing. democratization of gaming brings innovation. the good games still get spotlight.
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what exactly is open development platform? :lol
Windows is.... App Store is not.

In fact, if people start downloading stuff on their PSP, i suspect this will become very popular with devs, as they will have smaller competition. Why do you think all these new app stores get thousands of apps almost from the start? It has a lot to do with a. thousands upon thousands of apps in App Store and b. most popular ones being 99c.
 
dfyb said:
ah, i read it like he thought that his cellphone can access the internet with bluetooth, so maybe the PSP Go could, too.

one complication with tethering would be running an app (to tether) while also running the web browser or game to access the net.
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tethering is going to be built into OS, like on any phone, you wont be running special app to tether. Its like Wifi basically, you are not running an "app" to wifi that will then block your games and web browser.
 
Hmm..never thought about bluetooth tethering for mobile broadband access..this is technically possible, yeah?

That'd be pretty awesome. Would suit me better than a PSP with its own telephony access, actually - one phone, one data plan, shared with my phone + psp. Wifi is too limiting to have me use my PSP online much. Being able to go online anywhere would be fantastic.

Not entirely sure if there's gonna be enough to attract me to a Go (not a big handheld player), but that would definitely be a plus if I do get one.

edit - a massive plus, actually, the more i think about it..
 
spwolf said:
what exactly is open development platform? :lol
Windows is.... App Store is not.

In fact, if people start downloading stuff on their PSP, i suspect this will become very popular with devs, as they will have smaller competition. Why do you think all these new app stores get thousands of apps almost from the start? It has a lot to do with a. thousands upon thousands of apps in App Store and b. most popular ones being 99c.
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App store is more open than any current console platform. XNA, PSPfuture, App store are all very much in the right direction.
 
spwolf said:
tethering is going to be built into OS, like on any phone, you wont be running special app to tether. Its like Wifi basically, you are not running an "app" to wifi that will then block your games and web browser.
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well that would be ideal, but what i was addressing was that it's very unlikely that it would be possible as a "Go App." sony would likely have to do that (or we could wait for Go to be cracked and someone could possibly write a plugin).
 
dfyb said:
App store is more open than any current console platform. XNA, PSPfuture, App store are all very much in the right direction.
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but it is not an console. And its hardly open.
Compared to Windows it is laughable.

I can understand console not being open - because they lose money on hardware and they have to recover it somehow. But Apple telling devs not to develop certain apps that they dont want them to - thats just wrong. If MS did that for Windows, they would have been sued to oblivion and beyond.
 
spwolf said:
but it is not an console. And its hardly open.
Compared to Windows it is laughable.

I can understand console not being open - because they lose money on hardware and they have to recover it somehow. But Apple telling devs not to develop certain apps that they dont want them to - thats just wrong. If MS did that for Windows, they would have been sued to oblivion and beyond.
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i don't know why you're so argumentative. being able to put games online without an approval process/expensive devkit is undeniably more open than what consoles have typically done, which is a good thing in my opinion. would phrasing it as "relatively open" untangle your panties?

i wasn't aware apple did that with the app store though -- did they deny them access to publish to the app store or was it just a suggestion? honestly though, i can see any of these publishers denying certain games -- when they're hosting their own delivery platform, they sort of have that right.
 
dfyb said:
i don't know why you're so argumentative. being able to put games online without an approval process/expensive devkit is undeniably more open than what consoles have typically done, which is a good thing in my opinion. would phrasing it as "relatively open" untangle your panties?

i wasn't aware apple did that with the app store though -- did they deny them access to publish to the app store or was it just a suggestion? honestly though, i can see any of these publishers denying certain games -- when they're hosting their own delivery platform, they sort of have that right.
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for quite a while they had a list of apps you couldnt put on app store, like nav software, email software, web browser, not sure what else, forgot... basically anything that competes with apple was forbiden. They still have approval process, but they are not testing those apps that they are approving.

Imagine if MS would deny Open Office to be published on Windows, or Firefox :-).

I am not argumentative, open is open, not open is not open... it is more open than consoles, but it is not an console :). For WinMo and Symbian apps, you have no such restrictions. So when it comes to smart phones, its kind of more restricted than other popular platforms. I can get kick ass email client for my s60 phone that might look like ass, but is fully functional while i cant do the same for my iphone.

As to the tethering, it will be built in, no need for app for it, it will be built into PSP Go!, Sony already announced the feature.
 
dammitmattt said:
I don't think you understand. They are talking about using Bluetooth to tether your PSP to your phone to allow connectivity over 3G networks.

Before everyone gets too excited, these types of plans are usually fairly expensive (around $50/month or so), which makes it useless unless you have a lot of disposable income or you're using a business phone where price is not an issue.
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or you have a phone that supports it and do it anyway even without having a special tethering plan

like any windows mobile phone with bluetooth...
 
spwolf said:
Imagine if MS would deny Open Office to be published on Windows, or Firefox :-).
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it's a little different. MS doesn't control the publication or distribution of apps (MS doesn't supply firefox or open office), whereas apple does do so on iphone. i'm not saying app store is more open than windows, but i can see why apple wouldn't want to be a supplier for their competition and/or obsene material. there needs to be a way to d/l iphone apps off the web and install it, bypassing apple's store.
 
This is the best direction they could have taken with the PSP. But I have a feeling no touch screen is going to be the Achilles heal of the system. In todays market a mobile device requires a touch screen or some kind of touch pad interface or it will be dead in the water.
 
gcubed said:
Great article MCF/Develop.

Sony is definitely starting to react correctly... if they want to be serious about the PSP as a media device (and their new media players) they need their own music marketplace to accompany the video... it needs to be much easier to navigate and preferably steal a ZunePass like feature which would be awesome. This "app store" is a step in the right direction, but to prevent me from wanting to use a Zune for my music player, they need to offer me something on the lines of a music marketplace.
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Music store makes sense, we have stores for Games, Videos and we have coming up Apps and Comics/Ebooks, so the only missing one is Music.

Mar_ said:
This is the best direction they could have taken with the PSP. But I have a feeling no touch screen is going to be the Achilles heal of the system. In todays market a mobile device requires a touch screen or some kind of touch pad interface or it will be dead in the water.
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I agree, most, if not all, high end devices nowadays have some kind of touch screen. Sony would've made a real killing with the PSP Go if they included touch, motion and a camera to go along with the built in microphone found in the 3000.
 
The Faceless Master said:
or you have a phone that supports it and do it anyway even without having a special tethering plan

like any windows mobile phone with bluetooth...
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Android G1 on T-Mobile's unlimited data plan for $35 or even $25 allows tethering without root.
 
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