shimrra
10-20-2008, 12:05 PM
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Pocket Gamer recently interviewed Zeno Colaco, vice president of publisher and developer relations for Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, about the PSP. In particular, he was asked how the system's latest firmware update (v5.0) with the ability to directly download games to the PSP will affect publisher models.
"It gives publishers and developers much more scope in relation to the types of games they can release," said Colaco. "If they want to make a massive game, then they can do that, as before, as a boxed product on UMD. But if they want to do a smaller game just released online, or add downloadable content such as new characters to a UMD game, they can do that too. Customization is a big part of what consumers want these days, so we want to empower developers to be able to add such features and deliver them however they want to."
"Sony's effectively the retainer for the store, so we do get a margin for handling the digital infrastructure but it's up to the publisher to set the pricing differentials for the games as they wish," he added. "There are no hard or fast rules. If publishers want to sell games cheaper digitally that's within their [power]."
While Colaco was reluctant to share specific details on what might come from this new digital distribution option, he strongly hinted that there will be a wider range of releases in 2009. "I have to be careful what I say but publishers are definitely exploring more opportunities in terms of the types of games they can release on PSP, even in terms of more female-oriented games, puzzlers and less hardcore games," he noted. "The opportunity we're providing with digital distribution will ignite those thoughts."
Link (http://www.gamedaily.com/articles/news/psp-downloadable-games-will-ignite-developers-says-sony/?biz=1)
Pocket Gamer recently interviewed Zeno Colaco, vice president of publisher and developer relations for Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, about the PSP. In particular, he was asked how the system's latest firmware update (v5.0) with the ability to directly download games to the PSP will affect publisher models.
"It gives publishers and developers much more scope in relation to the types of games they can release," said Colaco. "If they want to make a massive game, then they can do that, as before, as a boxed product on UMD. But if they want to do a smaller game just released online, or add downloadable content such as new characters to a UMD game, they can do that too. Customization is a big part of what consumers want these days, so we want to empower developers to be able to add such features and deliver them however they want to."
"Sony's effectively the retainer for the store, so we do get a margin for handling the digital infrastructure but it's up to the publisher to set the pricing differentials for the games as they wish," he added. "There are no hard or fast rules. If publishers want to sell games cheaper digitally that's within their [power]."
While Colaco was reluctant to share specific details on what might come from this new digital distribution option, he strongly hinted that there will be a wider range of releases in 2009. "I have to be careful what I say but publishers are definitely exploring more opportunities in terms of the types of games they can release on PSP, even in terms of more female-oriented games, puzzlers and less hardcore games," he noted. "The opportunity we're providing with digital distribution will ignite those thoughts."
Link (http://www.gamedaily.com/articles/news/psp-downloadable-games-will-ignite-developers-says-sony/?biz=1)