God of War: Chains of Olympus and Patapon are among the ten new PlayStation Portable titles joining Sony's Greatest Hits lineup next month.
Ten new titles receive special packaging and a special $19.99 retail price come April 5th as part of Sony's 2009 PSP push.
PSP editions of major titles including LittleBigPlanet, Assassin's Creed and Rock Band are on the way, says Sony Computer Entertainment America, announcing what it calls an "unprecedented" lineup for its handheld. The announcement at SCEA's annual Destination Playstation retail and publisher event in Scottsdale, Arizona seemed aimed at putting to rest the primary criticism about Sony's handheld: that it lacks software support from publishers.
SCEI today announced that the cumulative worldwide sell-in units of PSP (PSP-1000, 2000 and 3000 series) reached a total of 50 million units as of January 2009.
PSP made its debut in December 2004 in Japan, March 2005 in North America, May 2005 in Asian countries and regions, and September 2005 in Europe/PAL territories. 2,000+ titles on UMD are available worldwide, with cumulative software sell-in units reaching 200 million to date (Dec 08).
@oznerol, I didn't downbid your post. I didn't agree with your suggestion, but I didn't downbid you. I don't do downbid, unless it is double post article.
@oznerol, I don't agree with RSS feeds from Kotaku and Joystiq. Those are general purpose website, with any kind of news. I prefer reading simEx news, since it is mostly focused on the sales related news.
Personally, I don't believe PSP2 is coming soon. Sony are bleeding money on their PS3, and PSP are not bleeding money. If they launch PSP2 in very near future, they will also bleed money on PSP2, which doesn't make sense. It is in Sony's interest to prolong PSP usage as long as possible, to get more benefit from it. It (PSP2 coming soon) could happen, but the probability is low.
It could be a fake statement from Sony. I'm not sure about the credibility of the MCV site that posted the response.
As for posting a Kotaku article and not the IGN one directly - it's because most people here just scour the gaming blogs and rehash their articles (which in turn reference another site).
Really, SimEx should just add RSS feeds from Kotaku and Joystiq and around 90% of the news articles posted here would be irrelevant.
That's an interesting response from Sony. I'm not sure why they would insult the media since they rely on sites like IGN to push information about their products to the public. It is particularly odd as well because PR people tend to be very careful about stepping on toes. The more I think about it, I don't think that could be a real statement.
On an aside, why is this submission a Kotaku article about an IGN article? All sorts of hearsay floating around the web :).
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