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Sony Europe Boss On PSP

Posted by simoniker on from the not-on-pcp-as-you-previously-thought dept.

Thanks to GameSpot for posting an article summarizing the recent comments of Sony Europe boss Chris Deering about the newly announced PlayStation Portable (PSP). Speaking at the ELSPA Games Summit in London, Deering gave no official hints regarding hardware pricing for the PSP, but said the UMD format software "could retail for anything up to 60 euros ($71) - the majority of games would sell for between 20 and 30 euros ($24-35)" - but note that normally-priced PS2/Xbox games in Europe cost around 60 euros. Deering also mentioned that movies available for the PSP will have region encoding, much like DVDs currently do. Finally, the original news report at UK publication Indie Magazine quotes the SCEE boss as saying: "I think [PSP] can be in fact synergistic and dynamically collaborative with GameBoy" - quite a different attitude compared to Nokia.

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  1. Paint Shop Pro ? oh that PSP by DrSkwid · · Score: 2, Funny

    before somebody else manages

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    There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
  2. In English by Guppy06 · · Score: 2, Funny

    "I think [PSP] can be in fact synergistic and dynamically collaborative with GameBoy"

    Translation: We've seen the bones of the Game Gear, the NeoGeo Pocket Color, the Lynx, the WonderSwan, and a few others we can't identify, and we believe Tim's story about the Game Boy having big, pointy teeth. We're going to be staying waaaaaay over here, at least until we get a rock we think is big enough and...