Curmudgeon Gamer: PSP: Now with 25% more demos!

30 January 2007

PSP: Now with 25% more demos!

Today Sony released firmware version 3.10 (wonder why?) and announced the availability of a Killzone: Liberation demo. This brings to five the total number of demos available directly from Sony:

LocoRoco
World Tour Soccer 06
LocoRoco Halloween Demo
LocoRoco Christmas Demo
Killzone: Liberation

I've been saying for a while (here and here) that Sony needs to put out PSP demos regularly, and I'm pleased that today's announcement says they'll be doing just that:

[Sony] promised that more first- and third-party demos would be released on an ongoing basis. In the coming weeks, Sony expects to offer demos for Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror and SOCOM: US Navy SEALs Fireteam Bravo 2.

Well, that's a start, but hardly the best the PSP has to offer. I hope Sony breaks the system wide open for third parties, especially smaller ones, to put out demos of their games. My own choices for demos would be:

Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops
Lumines 2
Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee
Field Commander
Tekken: Dark Resurrection
Pinball Hall of Fame: The Gottlieb Collection
Every Extend Extra

You've got some big names, some system exclusives, some niche titles. The ability to download and store demos like this is an advantage the PSP has over the Nintendo DS. Given Sony's situation nowadays, it needs to start exploiting every advantage it can get.

Labels: business, psp, sony

--jvm at 20:34

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