£3.49 for Bloons? £3.99 for Fieldrunners?! Obviously the prices in the US aren't the exact conversions but those two work out at around $5.50 and $6.36 respectively. The same games on the App Store are $0.99 and $2.99. Screw you Sony.
Does this mean you got a psp mini? I thought the original PSP would have been cool, but the lack of any decent games turned it into a portable sega genesis emulator and door stop for me. I really hope they make some good games for this one though, I'm pissed that they were going to release turismo for the PSP years ago, and they waited until the new psp came out to release it.
I'm not at all sure, but didn't at least Fieldrunners start out higher than $2.99? It was one of the first games I bought and I think I remember paying around $5 for it. Maybe the prices will fluctuate with time similar to the appstore.
PSP Minis are the games ("These games are under 100MB and a variety of developers will be contributing to the creation of "Minis". These games will be smaller, cheaper, and will be download only."), the new PSP model is the PSP Go, which I don't have. I saw the prices for the games on the PSN network using my PS3 I think there are some good games on the PSP by now... a few more and a price drop on the hardware and I might buy one.
Possibly, but definitely not as often. The PSN store tends to have "springtime sales" and other such offers, it's kinda rare for something to drop in price and stay there. Plus obviously the developers can't go changing it as often as they like the way they can with the App Store.
That's a good point. I guess we should count our blessings around the fact that we are so used to the most competitive of prices on the appstore (imo) Edit, off topic: Midian, I just noticed you joined TA a month earlier than I did.. but you have about 15x the amount of posts! The funny thing is most of your posts are pretty solid and insightful. I would think most people would have to spam fairly liberally to get that kind of post count in so short of time. Hat's off to you good sir for having much to say with minimal BS
PSPGo is just a redesign of the PSP, not an all new next gen PSP. It's the SAME as a PSP 1000 - 3000, just smaller and with the UMD drive removed (but with 16 GB SSD installed). It's just a PSP, so the games for the Go also work on the "normal" PSP systems (and have since the beginning...I've been downloading games from PSN for PSP for about a year now). So if you don't like the games for the PSP, you won't like it for the PSPGo, because the PSPGo is just another redesign of the PSP. Same CPU, GPU, RAM, etc. Same system. BTW, TC...the minis are much too overpriced, especially considering that for the same price or a couple of bucks more you can get stuff like Prinny, Dead Head Fred, Guilty Gear Judgment, etc. which are all full fledged PSP games.
BTW, Prinny is well worth the $10. And Guilty Gear Judgment was well worth the $5 I paid for it a few months ago. Also, there's a bunch of older PSone games that are $4.99 and up.
Yeah its quite insane really. Take a look at this article from cnet it compares the cost of several games on each platform. Look at this chart too - Hero of Sparta is more than 3x more and on PSP it has God of War to compete with! I could understand the higher price if there was extra content (doesn't Fieldrunners have a few extra maps?) or better graphics, controls, features etc, but a simple port - NO! Another interesting thing I noticed on Giantbomb was that Beaterator (from Rockstar) is $39.99 - will the iPhone version match that? Also what's that mean for Chinatown Wars?
The issue with the PSP games that are DD but also appear on UMD at retail are that Sony apparently doesn't want to price the games lower on DD than at retail in order to not piss off said retailers. If they're older games that aren't really available at retail anymore (as the case with stuff like Dead Head Fred, etc.) the prices are lowered. PSN for PSP exclusives, however, have always been lower than the games that appear on retail. So stuff like flOw, Super Stardust Portable, Unbound Saga, Everyday Shooter are $10 or less. The only PSN for PSP exclusive game that I've seen priced more than that is that Ape Escape RPG, for which all three "packs" in one compilation are $20. Oh...wait...Unbound Saga was originally $15. This is the sort of thing that might not help Sony's DD. The games have, in most cases, the same MSRP that they do at retail on UMD. So why would current PSP owners "upgrade" to a Go? Especially since they can already use the DD without buying a Go. And for new prospective owners, why buy it rather than a cheaper PSP 3000, which has access to the PSP used game market? And I doubt iPhone/touch users would be swayed, as they bought an iPhone/touch for other things, and gaming was just an addition, which is different than PSPs purely game centric focus (yes, there's now movie downloads, etc., but it's a game device first and foremost). Besides which, the games that iPhone/touch users like are priced for less on iPhone/touch...and there's more of them.
No offence, but those prices look very reasonable to me - the App Store prices are the bat-shit crazy ones
I'm sorry but I don't give a damn how expensive they are. I got a PSPgo today and I must say, it bitch slaps the iPod Touch. I can play way better games without worrying about frame rate studders or random crashes with the same size as an iPod Touch. It's amazing.
Fieldrunners maybe, but Bloons has been free online for years now. They're lucky I paid the 59p considering I'd completed the game several times before anyway.
I'm a potential buyer of the PSPgo, and I still give a damn. All the stuff you mentioned is great, for things like the PSOne classics and the regular PSP games, but the minis... still don't cut it, regardless of how amazing the platform may be.
Too bad that PSP minis cannot use wifi/internet, that pretty much makes it impossible for us to port anything.
The iPod Touch is what the PSP wanted to be originally; a device used for games, movies, music, a real multimedia device, everything but the game aspect failed though. Apple went at it from a completely different angle, they never intended for their ipod to become a gaming device, yet they ended up with what sony could have only dreamed off.
I would expect the PSP Minis to be a little higher in price, because you are most likely getting more content, and higher quality games.
