SCEE boss reveals new PlayStation Portable details
This would point at a rather better orchestrated global strategy from Sony for PSP than we've seen from them on consoles in the past, with software and hardware releases following close after one another in the key territories. Sure enough, Deering confirmed that the PSP will arrive in the second half of 2004, and suggested that the launches in Japan, the USA and Europe would only be seperated by the "slight time difference" required to get enough units of the console manufactured for each territory.
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Teresa Weaver, a spokesperson for Sony Computer Entertainment, said: "The reason we pushed it out here is we wanted to be sure there's a reasonable amount of software titles to launch with hardware,"
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The PSP isn't just a game device of course - it's designed as a portable media system, and Sony will be pushing for music and movies to also be released in UMD format. Movies on UMD will retail at a price "less than a DVD", which is just as well when you consider that UMD discs will almost certainly not be able to store video of the same quality as DVDs. Music may also be released on UMD at prices lower than normal CD prices.
Sony still plans to show the unit at this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo in May 2004.
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Some games, he revealed, could be priced "as high as €50 or €60 no doubt", but he added that the majority of games would be closer to the €20 to €30 price range, "given the time slots these will be played in". Sony has clearly learned a lesson that Nintendo has not - portable games, for the most part, need to be priced as impulse purchases.
In a stunning move Sony Computer Entertainment (SCO) has announced that the planned global launch of the Playstation Portable handheld gaming device will not happen in 2004 as previusly planned. Instead, Sony has indicated that it will launch the PSP at the end of 2004 only in Japan, with US, Eurpoe and all other regions launching before the end of Sony's fiscal year which ends in March 2005.
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Enhancing its strong platform strategies, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. announced today plans to expand its in-home entertainment to outside the home with a new, all-in-one portable entertainment platform, "PlayStationPortable" Scheduled for release in the fourth quarter of 2004, the company's goal is to extend the reach of PlayStation to a broader audience, allowing consumers to enjoy gaming and other entertainment content anytime, anywhere. Specific details on release plans and pricing will be disclosed at a later date.
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Confirmed by SCEJ executive Fumiya Takeno:
"Our dream is to see the PlayStation 2 in one room, the PSX in another, and the PSP for use outside of the home," stated Takeno-san. "The same game can be played by the end user depending on where you are. This is how the playing experience and development of a game will change."
Games for the device will be released on Sony's new Universal Media Disc (UMD) format, rather than on memory sticks as some had predicted, and Deering hinted that the pricing system for the titles would be flexible, allowing some to be priced significantly lower than others.
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"Maybe it might compete with people on the planes, but in the school yard I don't think people will be able to walk around with the PSP and treat it as roughly as you do with Game Boy," he explained. So, your PS2 (or PSX, or PS3) sits at home in the living room, your GBA is randomly carried about in your pocket or handbag, and the PSP occupies a space somewhere in between - an odd concept, but one which may well work for Sony.
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Wide range of PSP games available for download include: Action, Strategy, RPG, Sports, Driving, Adventure, Simulations Puzzles.
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Sony, in a tone reminiscent of Nokia's views over the N-Gage, sees the PSP occupying an entirely different area of the mobile gaming space from the GBA. "It's trying for a new part of the market to escape the TV, for the shorter leisure time slots that seem to be a factor," said Deering, commenting that the PSP - with all its media device trickery and undoubtedly quite high price tag - is unlikely to be a system people carry around all over the place and treat to the same rough and tumble experience most GBAs go through.
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One of the most interesting comments made by Deering during his presentation on the PSP, however, was with respect to Nintendo's Game Boy Advance - which has been fingered by most commentators as the main competition to the forthcoming system. Sony, apparently, does not agree, and Deering claimed that the PSP strategy could be "synergistic and dynamically collaborative with Game Boy".
Note the standard triangle, square, x, and o button configuration on the right, as well as the power and the multi-use eject/reset buttons on the lefthand side. The control pad on the left is the most concerning, since the company previously mentioned analog control support. The system may simply utilize a pressure-sensitivity as the current PlayStation 2 controller uses.
Just to reiterate: these are currently concept models, and may change in the year before the system's ready to ship in Japan at the end of 2004.
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In a move obviously designed to help get the movie studios on board, the device will support region coding for movies, but there's no word as yet on whether this will also apply to games. Deering specifically mentioned movies when talking about region codes, and went out of his way to point out that there would be no differences between devices in PAL and NTSC regions, so it may be that region coding is being dropped entirely for games on the system.
November 04, 2003 - At Sony's Corporate Strategy Meeting, Mr. Ken Kutaragi today revealed the first concept images of its upcoming PlayStation Portable system. The meeting focused on Sony's overall corporate strategy, so no adicional details were revealed on the PSP itself beyond an image of what the current version of the hardware currenly looks like in concept form. The images of the PlayStation Portable concept appeared in the company's slideshow presentation, indicating the ideas that Sony has for the handheld.
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There has been much speculation over the internal chipset of the PSP of late, with Ken Kutaragi commenting that people may well be surprised at the power of the machine when the specs are announced. Combined with Sony's recent demonstration of its ability to fit almost the entire PS2 chipset onto a single chip, there's an obvious conclusion - namely that Sony is planning to create, essentially, a portable PSX. It may not be the right conclusion, but it's certainly a tantalising prospect.
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A host of new details about Sony's forthcoming PlayStation Portable (PSP) console have been revealed by SCEE president Chris Deering at a summit in London, including software pricing details and the company's view on the Game Boy Advance.
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The move was even more shocking as Sony has recently touted the large number of developers currently writing software for the system and estimated the number of launch titles will be larger than the Game Boy Advance's launch.
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