Sony has revealed it will demand punters pay a penny under £150 for the basic PlayStation Portable package when it launches here on 22 March. Announced last week, the box contains just a PSP and a mains adaptor, unlike the bundle-heavy Value Pack that launched in September 2005.
Sony has announced that the basic level of its online service (just like Xbox Live and Nintendo WiFi) will be free (at least at first). The new service, given a working title "PlayStation Network Platform", will readily support the PS3 at launch in November 2006. However, it is not known to what extent the new service will support the PS2 and PSP.
The PSP Content Pack is a download (presumably monthly) that will feature PSP optimized media, including trailers, videos, pictures, and wallpaper.
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Just in case you were busy and miss out the nice games that came out during the previous week, you still have a chance to recap some of the titles here.
The Sony PlayStation 3 and the PSP have the highest percentage of brand awareness amongst consumers according to Forrester's latest report on the video games industry.
According to a Japanese Samsung website as covered by GamersReports.com, Sony Computer Entertainment is not only asking them to ramp up flash memory chips for Sony's use with the current PSP, but also stated that the PSP2 (PlayStation Portable 2) will not use UMDs, but "flash memory hard disk drives". ...