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Two big PlayStation 3 franchises are heading to PSP, Sony has this afternoon confirmed, with LittleBigPlanet and Motorstorm launching on the device later this year. The handheld version of LittleBigPlanet will be seemingly the same as its PS3 brother, allowing users to create and share game levels. MotorStorm: Arctic Edge, …
Read More »PSP 2 rumours are nonsense"
Clearly the rumour won’t go away until the day a new machine is finally announced, but again overnight talk has emerged of alleged details of Sony’s PSP 2 – and again, sources at Sony have completely denied them. IGN states that several credible sources” have told it that PSP 2 …
Read More »Digital distribution can ‘ignite’ developer interest in PSP, says Sony
Developer relations chief Colaço says non-retail content offers new options
Read More »Sony Q4 marketing blitz revealed
Sony will launch its Q4 marketing assault with a huge cinema ad campaign – and has told the trade to look out for a new range of bundles for PS3 and PSP in time for Christmas. Speaking exclusively to MCV, the software and hardware giant said it believed it had …
Read More »PSP strengthens digital disitribution ties
Japan to see simultaneous UMD and PlayStation Store releases of new handheld titles
Read More »PS3 sales rocket in Sony financials
Sony has revealed huge like-for-like rises in PS3 hardware and software in its Q1 financials. In terms of like-for-like sales, the platform holder’s flagship console sold double the amount it did last Q1 – up to 1.56m from 0.70m the previous year. PlayStation 3 software also fared rather well – …
Read More »Sky TV now on Sony PSP
Sony has struck a deal with pay TV giant Sky to offer video content to owners of its PlayStation Portable handheld games console in the UK and Ireland. The joint venture Go!View on-demand service will offer ‘comedy’, ‘sport’ and ‘entertainment’ programming packages via a monthly subscription, priced at 5 for …
Read More »JAPAN: PSP hits 2m this year
PSP has comfortably become the best-selling console in Japan for the first half of the year – shifting just shy of two million units in the region. According to data from MCV’s exclusive media partner Famistu/Enterbrain, Sony’s handheld was lagging behind DS Lite and Wii in January, but overtook both …
Read More »Sony: PSP can last ten years
Sony has revealed that it is backing a ten-year plan for its PSP console – with networking playing a key role in its futute. The firm believes that it needs to ‘revitalise’ the development community to get behind creating games for PSP in order to make it fulfil its potential. …
Read More »JAPAN: PSP rules May hardware sales
Sony’s PSP continues to dominate the Japanese hardware market, after clocking up 270,750 sales in May. According to data exclusively given to MCV by our media partner Famitsu/Enterbrain, the handheld took 37.3 per cent of all console sales in the month. It was followed by Wii, which shifted 220,052 units …
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