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Sony Exec Talks New PSP's Upgrades, GPS Attachment, NYC Appeal and more

So the PSP, once the darling of handheld gaming, then a bystander to the rushing success of the DS, is armed for its next charge. Will it come back? Read on to find out just why Sony thinks it will...

MaximusPrime6101d ago

no news about Europe getting GPS peripheral. :(

s8anicslayer6101d ago

i live in nyc and see more kids and teens with a psp,way more then ds

Retro-Virus6101d ago

Same here. I live in NYC and all I see is kids with PSP's on the subways . Those who don't have a PSP have an IPOD.

supnub56101d ago

and all of my friends had a psp, i only met one person with a ds.

Mr_Kuwabara6101d ago

Nice Article, a long read but worth a read.

crck6101d ago (Edited 6101d ago )

I was wondering about the status of the gps.

Heepspo6100d ago

maybe click on the link and read? Just a thought.

DJ6101d ago

(mostly because of my age group) but it's definitely getting more and more popular. They've sold what, 24 million so far? God of War and FF7 are definitely going to move a LOT of units when they're released.

Fighter6101d ago

I don't think the PSP can ever replace the DS when it comes to overall sales (unless they pull off a miracle) but it will definitely gain more popularity over the next few months. You can do much more on the PSP than the DS and people are slowly realizing that, especially the PS3 connectivity feature. I actually use my PSP as a walkman.

DJ6101d ago

the remote-play functionality. Instead of buying a bigass memory stick for my PSP, I can just remote play videos off my system (and store a lot more than I ever could on the handheld). I can't wait for the 2.00 firmware update, which supposedly allows for Remote Play connectivity from anywhere in the world.

SafeRat6101d ago

You already can from anywhere in the world...

Daishi6100d ago

Well the PSP conects to two systems, PS3 and 360. I personaly love hooking my PSP up to my 360 and watching videos or streaming the music off of it while I play games. I like my DS as well but it really needs to work on its online functionality for games.

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LittleBigPlanet 3 Servers Are Officially Shut Down 'Indefinitely,' Sony Confirms

Sony has confirmed that LittleBigPlanet 3 servers on PlayStation 4 will remain offline “indefinitely” following troubles with the service from earlier this year.

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rlow19h ago

Sad day, hopefully they’ll allow a third party server solution. Goes to show game preservation is an uphill battle.

blackblades1h ago

Sad day oh wait everyone that whining about it didn't play it or haven't played it in years and never was going back to it. Funny how people start to care when this happens but when it was actually up those same people didn't even pay attention to it.

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just_looken4h ago

What needs to be highlighted by this is that the series has had 4 main games then that go kart spin off yet sony let them all die.

There is 0 games like this on ps5 and to my knowledge 0 first party main kids games no tech demo crap

Sony purchased Media Molecule studio the ip then tossed it away letting it rot for over 7 years yet the community carried on until now were we have lost 16 years on all games of content along with no replacement.

Everyone goes on about ea killing studios but sony has killed way way more but its fine its sony they can do no wrong.

Before the sony blidboys track me down again go fire up your holy boxes all the dlc they tossed out all the trophies and all the user content needs a server side handshake that no longer works. Yes offline single player version 1.0 works but that is it.

Media Molecule was not cut i know but they only made LBP and dreams it was reported they just missed the chopping block
https://gamerant.com/little...

Do not forget the dreams game was tossed out 2020 but 3 years later support was pulled
https://www.digitaltrends.c...

All in all this is another failure at sony on a long long list in the past 10 years

Inverno3h ago

It's kind of hard to disagree when SONY has a history of abandoning many of their IPs. They killed Mod Nation and turnt it into LBP Karting because of brand recognition but left it to die too. They made their own Smash Bros only to rush the studio, and turn the game into an advert for recent release at the time and still let it die. They shut down PS Home for more or less the same reason, they left it to rott till it became too broken and exploited to bother fixing.

just_looken1h ago

This right here

Playstation home is what facebook is trying to make now but in vr that metaverse deal

Imagine if sony kept up ps home development

The death of playstation forums was also a huge loss

u-bEttA-rUn2h ago

Their games were unable to attract the masses every game that came out the attachment grew smaller and smaller they advertise LBP for years the industry changed and then came fortnight... You want Sony to continue to support them which cost them money that they're not getting back from the studio.

Tacoboto4h ago

I feel bad for Media Molecule. For the ideas they have it seems they need a publisher that supports games like this and Dreams especially for as many players as possible.

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Ranking the Devil May Cry Series

VGChartz's Mark Nielsen: "Upon finally finishing Devil May Cry 5 recently - after it spent several years on my “I’ll play that soon” list - I considered giving it a fittingly-named Late Look article. However, considering that this was indeed the final piece I was missing in the DMC puzzle, I decided to instead take this opportunity to take a look back at the entirety of this genre-defining series and rank the entries. What also made this a particularly tempting notion was that while most high-profile series have developed fairly evenly over time, with a few bumps on the road, the history of Devil May Cry has, at least in my eyes, been an absolute roller coaster, with everything from total disasters to action game gold."

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VersusDMC12h ago

First to last for me...3,4,5,1,2.

VersusDMC10h ago

Me leaving it out should be telling of my thoughts on it. Better than 2 as a DMC game.

Still a good game though.

Friendlygamer11h ago

3,1,4,5 to me, never played 2. 5 gameplay is amazing but level design was really disappointing to me, just a bunch of plain arenas, the story felt like a worse written rehash of the 3rd and the charater models looked weird ( specially the ladies ). Another problem with 5 was that there was not enough content for 3 charaters so I could never really familiarize with any of them

monkey60211h ago(Edited 11h ago)

2.
Dmc.
4.
5.
1.
3.

God DMC2 was an awful game.
And in case this isn't obvious it goes worst to best

Yui_Suzumiya9h ago

1 and DmC. The rest are unimportant.

DarXyde9h ago

Order changes depending on your focus. I tend to focus on gameplay/fun factor, so...

5, 3, 1, 4, 2.

I really didn't like 4 but commend Dante's weapon diversity. The retreading of old ground was pretty unacceptable to me.

But even then... Still more enjoyable than 2 for me

SeTTriP51m ago

This right here is my order as I thought DMC 5 was amazing and obviously 3 comes after 4 was great and 1 for the nastilgic value it holds 2 was so terrible that my local GameStop gave full refunds to people who returned it.

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This ASUS TUF A16 gaming laptop deal just swiped $180 from the price of the latest model

The latest model of ASUS TUF gaming laptops has just had a price cut - check out this gaming laptop deal while you can.