Sony PSP’s John Koller Talk About Upcoming Plans
With so much hype going around about the Sony PS3, John Koller from Sony PSP gives us his take on the company’s upcoming plans, as well as the success of the PSP.
First it seems as if Sony is leaning towards towards multi-functional game consoles. Recall that the PS3 is advertised as a cutting-edge home entertainent system, while the PSP is not just a gaming device, but a portable web browser as well. Now, Sony seems to explore most of its product’s capabilities by using the PSP as a remote control for the PS3. At the E3, they showed how the PSP was used as a rearview mirror for the F1 game. We could probably expect more of the PSP-PS3 team-up in the future.
But while waiting for that, we could get excited for another “inter-console” innovation from Sony. Well, sort of. Koller says that sometime this fall, PS1 games could be downloaded to your PSP. Koller also claims they’re working on the nitty-gritty details such as prices for each game downloaded or the actual date as to when these PS1 games will be made available to PSP. As for other plans, projects for the PSP2 are underway, but not much could be said about as they’re currently focused on enhancing the current version.
Regarding sales, he says that Nintendo has quite a success with the DS Lite, but there’s “no impact on sales”. He adds that their marketing strategy is different from Nintedo’s as the latter seems to target a younger audience than Sony.
All in all, Sony considers the PSP a success. Hopefully, they’ll say the same for the PS3 too.
Via Joystiq
With so much hype going around about the Sony PS3, John Koller from Sony PSP gives us his take on the company’s upcoming plans, as well as the success of the PSP.
First it seems as if Sony is leaning towards towards multi-functional game consoles. Recall that the PS3 is advertised as a cutting-edge home entertainent system, while the PSP is not just a gaming device, but a portable web browser as well. Now, Sony seems to explore most of its product’s capabilities by using the PSP as a remote control for the PS3. At the E3, they showed how the PSP was used as a rearview mirror for the F1 game. We could probably expect more of the PSP-PS3 team-up in the future.
But while waiting for that, we could get excited for another “inter-console” innovation from Sony. Well, sort of. Koller says that sometime this fall, PS1 games could be downloaded to your PSP. Koller also claims they’re working on the nitty-gritty details such as prices for each game downloaded or the actual date as to when these PS1 games will be made available to PSP. As for other plans, projects for the PSP2 are underway, but not much could be said about as they’re currently focused on enhancing the current version.
Regarding sales, he says that Nintendo has quite a success with the DS Lite, but there’s “no impact on sales”. He adds that their marketing strategy is different from Nintedo’s as the latter seems to target a younger audience than Sony.
All in all, Sony considers the PSP a success. Hopefully, they’ll say the same for the PS3 too.
Via Joystiq
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