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EA Pushes Sony on PSP, Price Cuts Possible

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the psproblems dept.

GameDaily reports that EA has been pushing Sony to be more proactive with the PSP. The software giant feels that Sony is 'letting the DS win' by failing to adopt an aggressive strategy for the handheld console. The article mentions a piece run on CNN's Game Over column, where Chris Morris talks about the possibility of a price cut by the end of the year. From the EA article: "'There is a price cut coming in the second half of the year,' said P.J.McNealy of American Technology Research. '[The PSP] has lost momentum. Nintendo has had a great run since it launched the DS Lite and Sony needs to regain some ground.' In the meantime, though, EA has been thoroughly encouraged by the DS and DS Lite and conversely discouraged by the PSP, to the point where the publisher is apparently reconsidering its strategy in the portable market."

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  1. Not completely correct by Brianech · · Score: 3, Informative

    This original version of this story is about a week old, and the article fails to mention that Sony just publicly denied that a price cut would occur in the near future (URL:http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php ?aid=18944). While I think a price cut would help out a lot, its almost as if Sony could care less about recovering their market share, and almost seem to be just moving on to the PS3. While I bash the PSP as much as anyone else, I do have one, and it is nice for media. Also the recent DevHook with 2.71 firmware emulation is pretty cool (keeping homebrew capabilities while gaining access to the web browser, RSS, and all that fun stuff).

  2. Re:Oh for the love of by decadre · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, the DS has sold 20 million units: http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/24/ 126203

    PSP had shipped 17 million last time I looked (from this years E3 Sony keynote) Keep in mind that here in Australia you just cant get your hands on a Lite without placing an order, and seems to be the same in Japan (My GF just moved there and is trying to get one), I have heard it is much the same in other parts of the world, the PSP seems to have plenty on the shelf tho.

    Not bashing the PSP, just kudos to the DS