@Witzbold: Actually the Tanya Grotter ones after the first one are more interesting than the Harry Potter Series... if you read Russian.

SSJPabs

Hopefully, this gets used for more games like n+. I'd rather see a bunch of independent game developers use this to get their original ideas out there that they didn't want to gamble on with the high cost of production than for the big game companies to use this as a way to be guaranteed profit on whatever they can throw out there, no matter how crappy it is.

ceilingFANBOY: got shrinkage

I just hope this turns out positive for the consumers.. I don't care if developers are saving money on making games when I could be on buying them. Cheap PSP games to get us all through the recession I say.

Jericho114

@Teggles:

... for instance it seems that I was not successful at being funny.

sigh.

Wyld

@Teggles:

If you say so, depends of what do you believe.

I think successful really means something when you say in what you´re being successful at, otherwise is ambiguous. So if I don´t say in what, I can interpret as I like.

Anyway my point was just to be funny, not to earn a "hey you missed the point award" because I know they are making money.

Wyld

@Wyld:

PROTIP: "Successful" doesn't mean beating a sole competitor, it means earning a lot of money.

Teggles

@Marlor: Yay popcorn games!!! the name alone screams shovelware...

Sinnbox

that means cheaper games?

@ComradeStalin:

lol he said "penetrate"

tamago007

@Marlor: A higher power has saved me once again from the pits of hell I see. ;D

Witzbold

@Witzbold: I thought it looked similar to a Wii game I had seen on Amazon and it is the same game w/a different name per IGN. It was re-released as Billy the Wizard b/c the first title was too close to Harry Potter.

[wii.ign.com]

Spartan1308

@Witzbold:

Welcome to the wonderful world of European shovelware.

The Barry Hatter franchise is indeed real. I was going to direct you to the website of Data Design / Popcorn Games, so you could see their other great titles, but it's currently down at the moment.

Marlor

Yeah yeah,
"pretty darn successful."

"I took second place in our race!"
"Cool, how many there were on the race?"
"2."

Wyld

@pandafresh: I had a Wonderswan back in the day (first game/console I ever imported) and lemme tell you, there's not a lot to check out. Riviera, a few Final Fantasies and lots, lots, LOTS of garbage. Which is to say nothing of the system itself. People complain of the miniscule ghosting with PSP screens but playing the Wonderswan version of FF4, flying on the world map gave me motion sickness. While sitting down, on a couch.

Nobuyuki

What wouldn't I do to get $20 new PSP games.... well alot but Id still really like to have them.

Sollus

whenever i get a bit more money to piss away, i wanna buy a wonderswan color, just for kicks. anyways, awesome, hopefully we'll get some real odd psp games. because i just love games that make no sense (see stretch panic)

pandafresh

It's definitely good. The PSP is selling extremely well now since the release of the slim and this just attracts developers to make games for the system which has a fairly large user base growing.

Kyle81

I think this is great. More indie games for teh win.

Ashurahori

Well RELETIVELY they've done well. Considering that Nintendo's place in the handheld market is an entrenched fortress with titanium walls and gun emplacements Sony is lucky they managed to scratch the paintwork.

Odin

@Sinnbox: "i jsut bought a Neo Geo Pocket color a few days ago to check that out."

YES.

VERY YES.

You are my new best friend. Go get King of Fighters R2, and Dive Alert, and then report back to me.

TalKeaton: Totally an orange Prinny

@Witzbold:

Just wait, some bright spark at SCEE will look at that and say "OMFG LOLZ we MUST make this game, its looks uberrr"

Well thats how I expect the marketing people at sony speak. I mean looks at the adverts :D

Azrial

@StevenRafael: with Handhelds being so cheap, im suprised more people dont go mulit handheld. I bought MY DS a year ago, my PSP a few weeks ago and i jsut bought a Neo Geo Pocket color a few days ago to check that out. you can buy several handhelds for the price of a console, so why not do it...

Sinnbox

@bangbangblah: lol...

Sinnbox

Cool, I guess. If they create more arcade style or portable sized games to aim at the casual market, then maybe the PSP's software sales will pick up. But they'll never catch on to the DS's.

I still don't play anything on my DS except NYT Crosswords, and Chessmaster & Beats on my PSP.

Not the greatest games, I know, but my hardcore gaming time is better spent on consoles.

StevenRafael

Oh, joy to the world! Brain games galore!

bangbangblah

@Witzbold: Tis sad, tis sad indeed....

PaintedMidget

Exciting stuff.....

Soyerz

@McWhertor: D::: Thats almost as bad as that fake harry potter book. The one with the "female" harry potter or whatever.

Witzbold

Oh my God.

I've been waiting for months on the latest news for Barry Hatter.

We finally have cover art! Game of the Year, confirmed.

Saint Anima: Kotaku's Poetic Massacre

@Kirbytheslayer: Thinks AAA is a great term: *Somebody* forgot to type "million." I won't mention any names, as it would be in bad form.

@Witzbold: Well, fake for the PSP. Real for the PS2! :O

McWhertor

What in the name of god is that image?!

Mr. McWhertor please tell me that is fake. D:

Witzbold

@Kirbytheslayer: Thinks AAA is a great term: The same people who buy the .4 games that show up on those attachment rate comparisons.

Ampillion lives a life much like No More Heroes.

This could be very good. No offence to Sony though, I love my DS and there is still much fun to be had on it. Too many games coming out now for it as well and I still need to pick up that import "Beat Brothers" or whatever it's called.

PaintedMidget

Kinda surprised they just now are doing this. Not that they haven't done well in a handheld market dominated by Nintendo, but it seems that if they wanted to push for a larger piece of the pie sooner, they'd of done this say, around the launch of the slim model.

Ampillion lives a life much like No More Heroes.

"making it even more competitive against the Nintendo DS"
hah you monkey...i got my ds christmas 2004, had 10$ down payment, and ive loved every moment with my baby

last_dread

Wait, who's releasing .9 games?
Or is that supposed to be sales? Really, I'm not sure.

But. Cool. It means cheaper PsP games than can be good too. More Patapon-type games!

Kirbytheslayer: Thinks AAA is a great term

heh...penetrate

ComradeStalin

"Sony's attempt to penetrate the handheld market has been, comparatively, pretty darn successful."
What kind of BS is that. The PSP is being demolisihed LTD by the DS and won't even sell half of what the GBA did in it's lifetime!!! This is after Sony claimed that it will bring the PSP out of the "ghetto" and into mainstream. The PSP is as successful in the handheld industry as HD DVD is to the video industry. Which both still alive because of stubborn fanboys even in the media industry!!!

oni-link1

well.. not all cheap games suck.

i'll read a review before i buy a game, so more games on the market for psp can ONLY be a good thing, from my perspective.

i just won't buy the games i don't want. easy enough.

joelface

Ok, I'll confess... I actually worked on the Billy The Wizard game for the Wii. Im sorry. The rest of the "games" can be found on Amazon here - [www.amazon.co.uk]

All the ones labeled "Popcorn Arcade" should be avoided.

PirateGrum

That pic is awsome, I feel like buying the game :P It's great that they will cut the prices in half for devs, hopefully more titles will pop up. But I will stick with my DS :)

Irenicus-the one and only

Sounds good. I would not mind cheaper games, even if they had less content. Similar to 360 live arcade stuff would be great.

Now all we need is to make it downloadable.

JojoTheSlayer

@Sinnbox: Oh I've got both current portables. They're so different, it's nice to have both. I could really use some more worthwhile PSP titles though. It's like 16 to 5 in DS's favor on my bookshelf.

brello

this is great news. i am im pressed by how well psp is selling considering the lack of titles compared to ds. this might be the year for sony to come out swinging after all.

zanzibarlegend