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Piracy Protection Is Why PSPgo’s Battery Isn’t Removable
10:30AM Owen Good | In reconfiguring their portable, Sony paid attention. Pandora’s Battery made modding the PSP firmware, and thus software piracy, very easy. SCEA’s John Koller said the PSPgo’s battery was made internal-only for just that reason. More »
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Sony: Market-Boosting Slim PS3 Will Phase Out Old Models
8:40AM Stephen Totilo | With three key changes to its guts, the new PlayStation 3 is more cost-efficient and poised to boost Sony’s market share, Sony told Kotaku today. Oh, and the slim has no rear power button. More »
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The Great Experiment
12:00AM Brian Crecente | In a week full of startling gaming news, from Microsoft’s virtual controller to Nintendo’s biometric add-on, Sony’s launch of a digital-download only gaming system has the greatest potential to be a game changer for the industry. More »
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Sony: 2009 Best PSP Software Year Ever
2:00AM Mike Fahey | With a handful of big name titles announced and more on the way, Sony is confident that 2009 is going to be the PlayStation Portable’s best software year ever. More »
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SCEA: PS2 Price Drop Will Cut Into Wii, Eventually Help PS3 Sales
1:00AM Brian Crecente | With a price drop to $99, the Playstation 2 is being repositioned as a family friendly video game console for the casual gamer. More »
Sony: PS3 Still For ‘Early Adopters’
3:30PM Luke Plunkett | The PlayStation 3 was released in North America in November 2006. That’s over two years ago. So we’re well out of the “early adopter” phase, right? Not according to Sony we’re not! More »
Sony Have NO PLANS For A PSP2
7:00PM Luke Plunkett | Time for another episode of “No Plans Watch”! This week, we feature Sony’s John Koller, who takes recent reports that PSP2 games are already in development and does his best to pooh pooh them. More »
Sony ‘Interested’ In Downloadable PS2 Games, Not So Much Netflix For PS3
8:40AM Michael McWhertor | With PlayStation 2 backward compatibility a thing of the past for PlayStation 3 owners, dreams of downloadable last-gen games may seem dashed. Or maybe not. Sony says it’s “interested” in offering downloadable PS2 software. More »
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Sony On LittleBigPlanet For PSP
6:00PM Luke Plunkett | There’s been a LittleBigPlanet rumour this year that’s been so strong it’s popped up twice, once in April, and again last week. Said rumour involves the popular (if a little oversold) platformer making its way to the PSP. MTV asked Sony’s John Koller about it, and his response was: LittleBigPlanet’ is so expansionary. I think the developer’s really concentrating on right now making sure that the launched product is everything it could be and can be. We’re watching the UGC [user generated content] and seeing how that’s playing out. But for the future, I think certainly, we’d look at a wide variety of opportunities. Whether that’s the PSP or not, I can’t really say. We certainly look at ‘LittleBigPlanet’ franchise as a going forward franchise for us, and that speaks to the PlayStation brand overall. More »
