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Sony’s PSP Go is Go

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Sony’s new $250 PSP Go gaming handheld debuts today. With its slide-out control pad, it’s the first PSP that’s truly pocketable (closed, it looks and feels a little like a BlackBerry Storm). It’s also dumped the tiny UMD optical disc drive of early PSP models, making it the first digital gaming portable from Sony or [...]

PSP Go is Real, PS3 Price Cut is … No Go!

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

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First, the bad news: Sony’s Playstation 3 will continue to sell for $399. Next, the sort of bad news: the PSP Go, a smaller, lighter handheld dubbed “the worst-kept secret of E3″ by Sony’s Kaz Hirai, will cost $249 — far more than a Nintendo DS or an iPhone. But hey, maybe the handheld will pay for [...]

PSP Go is All But Official

Saturday, May 30, 2009

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Marketing photos, video and details on a new Playstation Portable have leaked three days ahead of Sony’s E3 press conference. The source of the material is Qore, Sony’s official interactive magazine for Playstation Network members, so this was either an intentional leak to preempt the other console makers or a major foul-up. We’re beyond rumor territory [...]

Sony May Cut More PSP Middlemen

Thursday, May 21, 2009

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At this point, everyone but Sony is talking about a redesigned PSP that ditches physical media in favor of digital downloads. Whether you believe that or not, several reports suggest the PSP will eventually focus more on Web transactions with a download-to-rent service. The evidence came from Joystiq, which reported on a survey gauging interest in [...]

Is Sony’s Next PSP a Go!?

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

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First off, that’s not me getting really excited in the headline. It’s just the dilemma you get when a product name comes with its own punctuation. Sigh. Anyway, 1UP heard from unnamed inside sources that Sony’s next handheld console will ditch the UMD drive and get a spunky new name, likely the PSP Go!, but possibly [...]

What Does the PSP Want to Be?

Monday, April 20, 2009

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Ask Sony for some thoughts on the state of the PSP, and it seems you’ll get a profoundly different answer than that of third-party interests. In an article titled “Sony’s Forgotten Console,” Edge did a bit of quote gathering on what’s wrong and right with the handheld, and though the authors don’t explicitly point this out, [...]

Downloadable Games, With the Inconvenience of the Store

Monday, April 13, 2009

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A solution for the digital download squeamish: Go to your local video game store, buy a boxed version of a digital download voucher, go home and use the Internet to install the same product that’s being sold cheaper to those who don’t want to leave the house. Ars Technica’s Ben Kuchera has word from a “reliable” [...]

Silly Sony, PSPs Are for Kids!

Monday, April 6, 2009

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Though I try to abstain from fanboyism, I’m addicted to the console wars. And I’m not talking about insults flung around by loyal customers; only official company statements from Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony will do. The more ridiculous, the better. Spin factor is always high, but the latest remarks on the Nintendo DSi by SCEA director [...]

iPhone Games? Sony’s Not Worried

Thursday, March 19, 2009

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Oh, Peter Dille. The Sony Senior VP of Marketing has a great acid tongue (he recently said game publishers want to “sell razor blades” while Sony shoulders the net loss on console sales), but his latest attempt to bolster the Playstation Portable in the face of the iPhone is off the mark. Dille said Sony’s not [...]

5Words for February 26th, 2009

Thursday, February 26, 2009

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Good morning–news is served: Lots of Windows 7 tweaks. Nokia might make Symbian laptops. Google Street View’s user photos. Google News gets ads. Finally. Find iPhone vulnerability, get money. The president isn’t Tweeting nowadays. LG phone sports detachable keyboard. Jeepers, more Microsoft-Yahoo speculation. Rumors about PSP successor persist. Is Windows Mobile 6.5 obsolete? Vista SP2 release candidate imminent. Dell’s 10-inch netbook arrives. Intel: Psion doesn’t own “netbook.” No feeware [...]