Sony to launch PSP app store

Author: Joe Martin
Published: 15th July 2009
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Sony to launch PSP app store

Sony wants the new app store on the PSP to compete directly with Apple and already has some ports lined up.

Sony has confirmed that it will soon be launching a new section in the PlayStation Store that will sell apps and games for the PSP, all as part of a renewed attempt to compete with Apple's own app store.

While there have been full, digital games available for the PSP (and soon, the PSP Go) for a while now, the selection has been quite slim and has struggled to really take off. By launching a newly rejuvenated app store and mobile gaming platform, Sony hopes to remedy that.

Speaking to Develop, Sony's Zeno Colaço claimed that there are already more than 50 studios signed up to create games and applications to populate the PSP app store with. Those developers have likely been wooed in by Sony's promise of a much faster release pipeline than Apple, with no concept approval, lower price points and shorter QA processes.

"It is still a professional environment, you still need a development kit and you still need to have investment and a team. But it can be a small team," said Sony's head of developer relations Zeno Colaço. "We don't see any of the restrictions on the disc-based space being in this space."

One of the initial 50 developers will apparently be Subatomic Studios too, the makers of popular iPhone game Fieldrunners. Subatomic's first game for the PSP app store will apparently be a port of the tower defence hit.

"You don't see this happening at Microsoft and you even don't see it happening at Nintendo yet," Subatomic's Ash Monif said about the Sony approval process.

Is the promise of an app store enough to get you interested in the PSP Go, or do you still think it's too expensive? Let us know your thoughts in the forums.
Quote Blademrk 15th July 2009, 13:13
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Quote kenco_uk 15th July 2009, 13:23
Won't work. Anyone can make an iTouch App. That's why there's an app for any and everything. Are they just blind or living under a rock or something?
Quote Paradigm Shifter 15th July 2009, 13:55
Sony seem to have lost their spirit when it comes to trying new things. You can't innovate by copying someone else's work. :(
Quote Elton 15th July 2009, 14:05
This is.....

To little to late to say the least.
Quote I-E-D 15th July 2009, 14:58
Tbh. No company is going to beat the Itouch/Ipod. But together they can. I would say... Samsung, Sony, LG and Sony Ericsson all working together would bring down their app store/market domination of Mp3 players. AND I HOPE THEY DO! Even though i have a iPod, i want competition because the accessories are soo expensive. (Like a mains charging cable, for like 20 quid, when you can get a mains to USB for £5!).

Then some decent headphones by Sony, Good built quality from Samsung, good looks from LG, and usability from Sony Ericsson.
Quote storm20200 15th July 2009, 15:56
Hate to be so negative but it's Sony, it's gonna be as expensive or DARE I SAY IT! WORSE! Than steam pricing ^_^
Quote HourBeforeDawn 15th July 2009, 19:00
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Originally Posted by Paradigm Shifter
Sony seem to have lost their spirit when it comes to trying new things. You can't innovate by copying someone else's work. :(

wait you mean what Apples has always done since its birth??? lol

anyhow I think it could be a neat little feature, but I need to sell my two old original PSP for a newer model with that nifty video out feature ^_^
Quote Paradigm Shifter 15th July 2009, 22:11
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Originally Posted by HourBeforeDawn
wait you mean what Apples has always done since its birth??? lol

anyhow I think it could be a neat little feature, but I need to sell my two old original PSP for a newer model with that nifty video out feature ^_^

:)

I wasn't even thinking about Apple actually. I was thinking about Sony as it used to be... coming out with kit like the original Walkman and the Discman (Music on the go? Impossible!) or the Trinitron screens. They've let others take the risks into new areas (MP3 players, online application stores, persistent world avatar mechanisms) have seen them succeed, tried to copy them and then fallen flat on their faces in the process. The Playstation was an attempt to lever into the apparently lucrative console market... they succeeded in killing Sega, but dropped the ball when competing with the second Microsoft console and are now struggling to regain enough momentum to see it through.
Quote HourBeforeDawn 15th July 2009, 23:42
ya its a shame the PSP was and still is in all respects an amazing handhelp but I dont know what happened, I still love mine but I will admit since I got my netbook lol I havent touched it much ^^'
Quote xaser04 16th July 2009, 08:30
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Originally Posted by storm20200
Hate to be so negative but it's Sony, it's gonna be as expensive or DARE I SAY IT! WORSE! Than steam pricing ^_^

To be fair their prices on the PS3 store arn't too bad and at least unlike Microsofts retarded points system you know what you are paying for something.
Quote docodine 16th July 2009, 23:06
If the original PSP accepted SD cards, this might have worked.

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