GAMESCOM: THE 3 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SONY’S PS3 SLIM/PSP CONFERENCE
1.) Sony officially announced its $299 PS3 Slim.
After months of strong rumors, Sony has officially announced its new model PlayStation 3: the 120GB Slim, to be released in just two weeks time on September 1st, at a pricepoint of $299. Starting tomorrow, current standard 80GB PlayStation 3s will see their price dropped from $399 to $299, and the 160GB models will fall to $399. The price move puts the Slim model on par with the standard 60GB Xbox 360, and $100 less than the 120GB ‘Elite’ model 360.
2.) Sony announced, ‘Minis’, a new PSP downloadable game series
As mentioned to UK outlet Develop in mid-July, Sony has officially announced a new line of exclusively digital-distributed game series to be known as ‘minis’, with a strict 100 meg size limit, and a 99 cent to $9.99 price structure, clearly targeting the iPhone’s App Store market.
That goes for its game titles themselves, too, many of which have been directly lifted from the App Store, including Tetris, tower defense game Fieldrunners, Mountain Sheep’s shooter Minigore, and Gameloft’s Hero of Sparta, all as spotted by the official UK PlayStation blog.
The blog says Sony announced 15 games will be available at its October 1st launch, with a total of some 50 available by the end of the year.
3.) Sony announced a new PSP Digital Reader, starting with Marvel, IDW comic books
Also launching for the PSP this December, a new Digital Reader app, which will let users purchase, download and read — “page by page or frame by frame” — a series of comic books coming from partners like Marvel (Spider-Man, X-Men, Fantastic Four), IDW (Transformers, Star Trek), iVerse (Archie), and a wider range of “titles from indie and local publishers.”
Cryptically, Sony also added that, according to the PlayStation Blog, “the Digital Reader isn’t just comics, though — more on that at a later date.”
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