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2 Replies | 410 Views | | Hudson Entertainment's Creature Defense Roars Loose Onto the PSP | | Permalink
Nov 06, 2009 - 2:34 PM
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This new tower defense and card game was released for the PSP system and PSPgo today.
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Get ready to defend your territory with Creature Defense,the new title that combines strategic "Tower Defense" gameplay withcard-based gaming. Published by Hudson Entertainment, the North andSouth American subsidiary of HUDSON SOFT, Creature Defense can now bedownloaded for $7.99 on the PlayStation Store.
"Creature Defense is perfect for strategy gamers who are looking forthe next step in the popular 'Tower Defense' subgenre," said Mike Pepe,Director of Marketing at Hudson Entertainment. "The beautifully drawncards will also strike a chord with anyone who ever played Magic: TheGathering, DuelMasters or other fantasy cards games."
Creature Defense will place gamers in a variety of stunninglyillustrated worlds where they will be tasked with defending their landfrom invading attackers. After creating a deck where players take intoconsideration the types, tolerability and elements of the enemy, theonslaught begins and continues until adversaries are defeated, or theland falls. Special skills and attacks are added to the player'sarsenal as the game goes along. With new levels and attributes toexplore, as well as 50 types of Monster Cards drawn by well knownillustrators available for download, Creature Defense is an ongoingadventure for strategic minded gamers.
For even more strategy, Creature Defense will feature charactersfrom the EYE OF JUDGEMENT universe! An all new collaboration betweenHudson and Sony Computer Entertainment America will enable players touse 3 popular characters in their Creature Defense lineup!
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2 Replies | 978 Views | | How Sony Can Save the PSPgo | | Permalink
Nov 06, 2009 - 2:34 PM
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Check out this very interesting article about how Sony can make the PSPGo better or even save it completely
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The latest addition to the PlayStation Portable family, the PSPgo, hit North American retailers in October with Japanese markets following this week. While reports of the domestic release have been varied and official sales statistics have yet to be released, news out of Japan this week further compound suspicions that the handheld is off to a slow start. According to PSPgo launch sales in Japan, retailers were only able to move 28,275 units, a relatively mediocre start for a country where Sony is king. Given the PSPgo's weak start in its native country, could Sony's rough start in Japan be the start of a less-than-optimal life cycle for their all-digital handheld? We'll have to wait and see, but if things do start to go south for the PSPgo, Sony may be able to save the system from the flames with a few strategic changes.
Cheaper Games
As a 100-percent digital platform, the PSPgo requires the exclusive useof the PlayStation Network's online store for software distribution.While there are plenty of alluring benefits of an all digital distribution service, there are also some inherent downsides, like that consumers have no physical ownership of the game media. If a user's purchases are lost on either their PSPgo or PC's MediaGo software, then it is gone forever. Moreover, the lack of physical media to store and keep track of, there is no competitive market for digital software since Sony has a total lockdown on the PlayStation Network. In other words, digital PSP software can only be found on the PSN, which means retailers like Gamestop and Best Buy aren't around to offer limited time deals. You also have to consider the fact that there is no capacity for resale, meaning, users cannot trade in digital downloads for store credit like they can at in-store retailers.
With the pricing locked in at either the same as or higher than in-store retailers and no way to trade the titles in later, there is little incentive for gamers to want to go the digital route. Digital games on the PSN would be much more appealing if they had a price differential over hardcopy games, even a marginal one. If Sony were to knock off 5 or 10-percent off the MSRP of digitally distributed game stop compensate for the lack of physical product in the user's hand,gamers would likely warm up to the idea a lot quicker. Apple achieved incredible success with the iTunes store when they rolled out their$9.99 album pricing while the rest of the music industry was hovering at $14.99 or more for CDs, Sony could do the same for games and move alot more PSPgo units in the process.
Cheaper Hardware
We can get why Sony keeps the pricing of the games on-par with hardcopy retailers, but taking away backward compatibility and trade-incapacity while jacking the MSRP up of the platform by $50? That's just crazy. In most cases, consumers are willing to pay more in order to get more, but with the PSPgo, the prevailing opinion is that users are paying extra only to lose functionality. Sure, the PSPgo packs some new tech that boosts production costs – Bluetooth, 16GB flash drive, etc. –but neither really provide enough marketable benefit to players to merit charging more than the PSP-3000. The extra $50 may not seem like a lot to most, but it is enough to dissuade consumers who are already pinching pennies due to the state of the economy. If you also consider the perspective of parents shopping for their children, a large chunk of the consumer market, the appeal of $249.99 system as opposed to the$199.99 PSP-3000 or $169.99 Nintendo DSi, is hard to justify.
The market impact of the extra $50 on the MSRP has been recognized by many electronics retailers, and when the system launched in October,many went ahead and cut the price of the PSPgo down to $199.99 anyway.To combat the sticker shock, Sony would be wise to follow suit.
Create a UMD Credit System
As one of the biggest problems the PSPgo faces, the simplest way to raise consumer interest in the handheld would be devise a way for them to either trade-in or get PSN credit for their UMDs. Sony announced that they were exploring plans to allow users to transfer their UMD titles directly to their PSPgo without having to repurchase them on thePSN, however, just before the system released announced that the plans were scrapped due to legal complications. While the issues of offering a UMD transfer solution are fairly clear – proving ownership of the UMD, piracy, etc. – it seems like a mail-in or in-store... [Read More] | |
4 Replies | 572 Views | | Gamestop: "Story is far from over on the PSPgo" | | Permalink
Nov 05, 2009 - 4:22 PM
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This is an interesting article I found
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Sony's slow roll out of the PSPgo has been "by design" and the story is far from over for the digital handset, according to Gamestop exec Tony Bartel.
Following the release of figures from the console's Japanese launch over the weekend - it sold 28,000 units in its first day - Gamestop's exec VP of merchandising and marketing told IndustryGamers that Sony had never planned a big launch for PSPgo.
"I think that, by Sony's admission, you can tell by the small marketing that was done for this, that their mentality was more of a slow roll than a major launch. This was clearly different than the way that Nintendo approached the DSi, and I think that was by design.
"I think the story is far from over and being written on the PSPgo. I think Sony knew it was going to be more of a slow build as opposed to a right out of the gate huge release. I'm not sure that anyone that spent a lot of time working with Sony on the launch was really surprised by the way that it's gone so far."
Official figures from the US launch of the handheld are yet to be confirmed, but Sony has said it led to overall PSP sales growth of 300 per cent.
US sales of the PlayStation 3 are in far less dispute, with the console reaching the hardware sales top spot during the month of September.
Nearly 500,000 units were sold during the month, reports IndustryGamers, while in Japan the console's sales have grown by 707 per cent since its price was dropped.
And in Bartel's opinion, its success in the US won't be limited just to September.
"We continue to see the [price drop] giving strong momentum to the PS3," he said. "Obviously we had a strong surge when they initially dropped the price, and there was a lot of excitement around that, but we still see PS3 sales as very strong through October as well."
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0 Replies | 519 Views | | Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron now available | | Permalink
Nov 04, 2009 - 9:48 PM
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I'm going to try to get back into the habit of posting news daily so here's the first piece the new Star Wars game is out
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LucasArts announced today that Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron for the PSP and Nintendo DS is now available at retailers.
In Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron, players assume the identity of X2, a clone trooper created from the DNA of a Jedi Master. Originally tasked with eliminating Jedi during Order 66, X2 decides to leave his blood-stained past behind and join the Rebellion. However, X2 isn’t the only Force-sensitive clone. X1, his clone brother, chooses a much more sinister path, leading to a confrontation that could determine the fate of both the Empire and the Rebellion.
Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron on the PSP system supports 16-player multiplayer, complete with in-depth stat tracking and on Nintendo DS, intense 4-player skirmishes across a wide number of modes are featured, including the all-new “Heroes and Villains” mode. Take up arms as some of the most iconic Star Wars characters, including Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, Boba Fett, Kit Fisto, Darth Maul and other familiar faces from Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron™ and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed™. Battle for the fate of the galaxy on some of the most memorable Star Wars planets of all time, including the forest-covered landscape of Endor, the frozen wastes of Hoth and even the mysterious Yavin 4.
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2 Replies | 725 Views | | Rockstar Announces Release Date for PSP GTA | | Permalink
Sep 13, 2009 - 11:50 PM
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Here's something for the GTA fans
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Rockstar Games just dropped an October 20 date for Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars PSP.
The official release date for the new GTA was announced on Rockstar's official Twitter feed.
Rockstar has been quiet about how they are transforming the game that launched this past March on DS into a PSP game, maintaining for months simply that the Chinatown Wars will be rebuilt for the PSP.
But how will the game look in widescreen and on only one screen instead of the DS' two? How will the touch elements of the DS game — which were used for everything from breaking out of a sinking car to dropping change in a toll booth to defibrillating a heart — be changed to work on the non-touch PSP? Will the non-vocal soundtrack get vocals for the PSP?
Nary a screen nor much answer has been released by Rockstar yet.
While announcing GTA: Chinatown Wars for PSP back in June, a Rockstar release indicated that the game will be "specifically built for the PSP platform with upscaled widescreen graphics, enhanced lighting and animation and including all new story missions."
We hope to be playing the game at Rockstar soon and will have full coverage as soon as we're allowed to spill details.
The game will be available on PSP both on disc and as a digital download. Notably, it will not quite be a PSPgo launch title, as Sony's no-disc-drive version of the PSP will launch on October 1, 19 days before Chinatown Wars hits.
Rockstar's other fall GTA content, the GTA IV expansion The Ballad of Gay Tony, as well as the compilation of that and an earlier expansion to GTA IV, will be released on October 29.
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