{"id":7165,"date":"2009-09-07T08:01:35","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T15:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=7165"},"modified":"2015-06-01T22:57:20","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T05:57:20","slug":"sony-launches-psp-minis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/sony-launches-psp-minis\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony Launches PSP Minis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8914\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/MinisVol3-S.jpg\" alt=\"MinisVol3-S\" width=\"233\" height=\"400\" \/>SEPT. 7, 2009 \u2022 Hoping to generate some of the same success as Apple&#8217;s iPhone, Sony Computer Ent. has introduced its PSP Minis program: micro-sized games at App Store-like prices. Titles will be marketed in a Minis branded area of the PlayStation Store. To make creating games for the initiative, SCE lowered the cost of PSP development kits by 80% to $1,500. The company does not want to emulate Apple&#8217;s free kit based on worries it would attract too many &#8220;hobbyist&#8221; projects. SCE says its reaching out beyond existing PSP developers to casual online and PC studios that have done &#8216;interesting&#8221; projects.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Impact: The success of Apple&#8217;s App Store has the established platform manufacturers worried.\u00a0 The idea of the Minis program is to offer games at a lower cost so that the PSP can be effectively pitched as a system that can not only play iPhone type apps, but also full-fledged high-end games.\u00a0 In theory this makes the PSP a much higher value proposition.\u00a0 Of course, this initiative is nothing new.\u00a0 Nintendo has the DSi Ware program and all the major consoles allow for downloading small-size games.\u00a0 At the end of the day, these programs offer more options for consumers and developers, but sales for these type of products are minor compared with traditional portable and console games.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEPT. 7, 2009 \u2022 Hoping to generate some of the same success as Apple&#8217;s iPhone, Sony Computer Ent. has introduced its PSP Minis program: micro-sized games at App Store-like prices. Titles will be marketed in a Minis branded area of the PlayStation Store. To make creating games for the initiative, SCE lowered the cost of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7165"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14239,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7165\/revisions\/14239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}