PSP Mini's to Become Bigger App Based

 

Sony recently talked about PSP and the future rumored handhelds coming from them later. While they pretty much summed up PlayStation Phone and hinted towards a tablet, they also mentioned how this gameplan will be differnt than PSP. Since PSP first launched, smartphones have becoming bigger, and Apple began to throw app based games at us. Well Sony plans to take that boat and travel further.

"The PSP being a proprietary platform was more concentrated I'd say core gaming segment rather than the light game, but now we are addressing that market as well," said Kato.

"I cannot be specific as to how we will introduce new products to address these markets," Kato added, "but one thing I can say is that we have those markets addressed and we will come out with products and services to capture the broader gaming market."

The PSP Minis store on PSN comes to mind here. This store was supposed to be smaller based games that come with a lower price and take up less space on the handheld. While Sony touted 9 million sales within the first months, the store has been somewhat quiet, along with a slow decline of PSP sales in general.

However the rumored PlayStation Phone was noted to be using a newer Android OS. Of course Android is one of the leading smartphone OS with a massive app based store, so this could possibly be Sony noting their reasoning behind using Android. Hopefully Sony can find a good mix between casual and core gamers though.

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