Tag archive: playstation portable

As reported by Kotaku earlier today, Sony is ditching plans to allow new Vita owners to download PSP titles that they currently own on UMD disc. Sony rolled out this program in Japan at launch during December 2011 and all Japanese owners can register their UMD titles on the Vita by paying a fee based on the value of the game, thus Japanese owners can avoid having to repurchase the titles at full cost on the PlayStation Vita digital download… Read More

Previously announced during early November, Sony rolled out a revised version of the PlayStation Network digital rights management policy for owners of the PlayStation 3 and the PlayStation Portable. The policy change will also apply to the Vita when it launches in North America next year. All new game purchases made on the PlayStation Network as of November 18 can only be accessed on two devices at any given time. Sony previous allowed users… Read More

According to Sony’s PlayStation director of hardware marketing in a recent interview, approximately 63 percent of PlayStation 3 owners said they would purchase the Vita once released next year. In addition, 60 percent of PlayStation Portable owners plan on purchasing the Vita before August 2013. However, no clarification was offered on how these figures were obtained. It's possible that respondents were derived from registered users on an… Read More

Sony's got some breathing room now that its PlayStation Vita is only releasing in Japan this year, with US and Europe releases to follow in early 2012. The company seems to be using that time well too, going straight to the fans to get a consensus on what the hoped-for peripherals are. Feedback is being collected on the Japanese PlayStation Vita community site (via Andriasang), which currently has 556 responses and counting. Even if you… Read More

Nintendo has the 3DS. Sony has the PlayStation Portable and, soon enough, the PS Vita. Microsoft, on the other hand, continues to have no horse in the portable gaming race despite having what is arguably the most popular video game console on the market. This is apparently by design, MS Chief Operating Officer Dennis Durkin revealed in an interview with IndustryGamers. “I’m not sure I would want to be launching a dedicated portable device… Read More

Next week at E3 we will finally learn (most likely) whether or not Sony's upcoming handheld gaming device, codenamed NGP is called “PS Vita,” as recent rumors have suggested, or something else entirely. All sorts of pre-E3 preview reports are coming out now about various games for the upcoming portable, but one fact about the device itself has emerged that ought to make longtime Sony product supporters happy. It has now been… Read More

The PlayStation Portable was never the winner Sony had hoped it would be, but some decent games have been released for the handheld gaming device in the years since its 2004 release. The company eventually got into the habit of porting PSP releases over to the PlayStation 2, both before and after the PlayStation 3 arrived. Rumors had previously suggested that the God of War PSP games would be getting a PS3 port, but now Sony has confirmed a… Read More

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Tech giant Sony issued a statement earlier this week confirming that production on its PSP Go handheld gaming device had ceased and the product had been discontinued. The statement was issued to a Japanese website, but many assumed that it applied to the worldwide availability of the hardware. Well… it turns out now that this is not the case. Sony Computer Entertainment America will be “continuing production of PSP Go in North… Read More

At least Sony tried. If the PSP Go hadn't been released as the line in a line of continually updating SKUs for the company's PlayStation Portable gaming device, it could've been something cool and different. It was those things, but in stripping away basic PSP features like the UMD disc drive, this smaller, sleeker, more expensive device actually ended up offering less. Repeated attempts have been made to sell gamers on the PSP… Read More

A new report from market-watcher Flurry Analytics finds that while Nintendo is still the dominant player in the portable gaming market, its marketshare is being rapidly eroded by the growing popularity of Android and Apple's iOS platform. According to Flurry, sales of Android and iOS games now account for 34 percent of the portable gaming market—and much of that growth comes at the expense of Sony's PSP and (to a much greater… Read More

Sony announced its NGP handheld gaming device earlier this year, an evolution of the PlayStation Portable that includes a more powerful processor, an improved HD display, a bottom-mounted multi-touch interface and twin analog thumbsticks. Though the company said nothing specific about the price, many simply assumed that a gadget with such powerful tech built in would fall closer to the $500-and-up world of tablet computers than the… Read More

There's still most of a year to go before Sony's powerful new handheld, the so-called Next Generation Portable, or NGP, comes to the hands of consumers. Assuming of course that the company hits its planned holiday 2011 release window, which can sometimes be an iffy thing in the tech world. Before the Sony warehouses can become filled with these handheld mini-PlayStation 3s however, they'll first have to be emptied of older… Read More

(check out more photos of the NGP here.) After weeks of rampant speculation over the future of the PlayStation Portable brand, Sony has unveiled the next evolution of its handheld lineup: the Sony NGP, or “Next Generation Portable.” The new handheld is not the device we saw the other day, either. Sony claims the new device is as powerful as a PlayStation 3 and has software to back it up. At the unveiling, Konami's Hideo Kojima… Read More

Video game hardware and software sales in US declined 10 percent in August, according to a report by market researcher NPD Group. Year-to-date numbers aren’t any better, with revenues dropping 8 percent compared to last year. The August numbers tell an interesting story: Sales of game software dove 14 percent, compared to the 5-percent slide for consoles and portables. Falling 12 percent, August was the weakest month for the Nintendo Wii ever… Read More