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Interesting. Have to admit I'd never heard of it until just now.
08/24/09
Personally i like ngmoco's star defense better.
08/24/09
Seriously, they need to bring Zenonia or Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition to PSP now.
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About a pack in, it would be possible, but i think the game is long enough to be on it's own. Then again, the final fantasy bundle on the GBA was very good.
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PSP Minis port of Zenonia. HELL yeah.
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Home brew cant be anything but free anyways because they have no way of charging
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It's homebrew not because they want to, but they can't sell it on the PSP so.
07/16/09
Despite what a lot of people are saying I believe that in the end this will be good for the industry.
First of all it makes gaming even more mainstream which is always a good thing.
Secondly it allows developers to try new things and for consumers to try out new IPs/ideas without the cost of spending a lot on a game. If the game tried something new but wasn't that great you are only out a few bucks.
Lastly I believe this will get a lot of people into game development. The iPhone has a very nice development community (full disclosure I am a registered iPhone developer) that for the most part is really enthusiastic. Free game engines such as Cocos2D for iPhone, make development very fast and easy and allow people who aren't big programmers to develop new high quality games.
I just hope Apple realizes this and doesn't make any (more) bone headed moves (transparency in app selection) and makes things even easier for future developers to get in on action.
07/14/09
I would still get this game on the iPod/iPhone for 2 reasons:
1.The touchscreen interface works wonders for tower defence and strategy games.
2.The way apple handles their online store in Mexico offers a better value.
Firstly because apple actually gives you the option to pay with credit card, while sony's system for now ONLY allows you to use PSN cards, wich are not even easily obtainable and a lot more expensive than they should.
And secondly because Apple's maniac obsession with numbers that look pretty and easy to learn is actually working for the consumer this time. They are not only NOT charging taxes, they are actually lowering the exange rate almost 40% so they can equate 1USD==10MXN.
This makes the 5 dollar games on the Appstore almost 60% cheaper than the 5 dollar games on the PSN.
Edit: Great! Kotaku does automatic line breaks again!
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I'm aware that they accept debit and cretid cards on other PSN stores in the world, but for some odd reason, they ONLY accept PSN in the Mexico's store, wich is kind of stupid because it makes games MUCH more expensive than the competition, at least talking of Apple and Nintendo.
It also is kind of an odd decition since the only way to buy the cards is on sony style stores, wich are a rarity on the country. So the only way for most people is Go online, pay with a credit card for a very expensive PSN card, then wait a week or two for it to arrive and then enter the code so you can buy online stuff!
So we have to use a credit card to pay online and wait because they won't implement an onlime credit card on their download store?
It also doesn't help that they update the store only once a month with very little content.
Ok That ends my ranting for tonight! =D
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Make the dev kit cheap enough and let the games be sold at the same price and they would definitely steal some of Apple's thunder.
07/14/09
There are certainly a plethora of iPhone games that would probably work better with the controls available on the PSP, but I just don't think they're going to be able to come anywhere close to apple's pricing model.
07/14/09
I just think it would make sense to compete against the iPhone because they could do that on top of their regular releases.
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Offering the games to the same price range as the iPhone/iPod apps will really open up the PSPGo to a bigger market than the usual hardcore gamers.
Yes, most of the times you get what you pay for.
But sometimes, silly/simple/1-dollar games can still be entertaining. And it does help add further value to the PSPGo.
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I would be interested in picking up a development kit especially since developing for the iPhone you quickly miss having buttons, would make some games much easier to build :(
07/14/09
As of now, it's an amazing platform with a high quality-to-crap ratio. Let's keep it that way, please.
07/14/09
Too bad regular PSP is holding this back!
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Hopefully more companies will follow this trend.
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