Saturday, January 29, 2011

Sony NGP Gets Priced, While Nintendo Reacts

As Sony Computer Entertainment unveils its Next Generation Portable (NGP), the second era of PlayStation Portable , its chairperson Kaz Hirai certified that its cost will not be on the unreasonable side.

In an talk published in Personal Computer World, Hirai did not especially settled how ample the NGP will cost, but he did confess that the handheld gaming device was built with its cost label in mind.

Sony has had a story of bad pricing when it comes to video diversion devices. In 2006, the firm launched two PlayStation 3 models that cost US$499 and $599, that was finally lowered with the let go of its slim version. Three years later, Sony was heavily criticized, this time is to $249 cost label on the PSP Go, that was moreover finally lowered since bad sales.

The talk moreover overwhelmed the NGP's insufficient of 3D features, that is arguably the tip trending technology in entertainment and the prominence of competing Nintendo 3DS . Hirai certified that Sony did ponder adding 3D to the NGP, but motionless to jump over it is to time being.

Speaking of Nintendo, its boss Satoru Iwata waste unfazed about the foreword of the NGP. In an talk with Associated Press, he settled that what other firm is carrying out is the smallest of their concerns, as they would rsther than concentration on "drawing newcomers to gaming and attractive to a far-reaching operation of people."

Source: USA Today

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