PSP Minis brings bite-size games to portable platform

o yea. its about time. ive been thinking it would be a great idea for comics to go digital and portable for years. wowzers. its finaly happened. yussssss!

i wish if i could have all of the colors but ......i is happy with white colors .... Japan rocks

Just some mini games. As well throw your money out the window.

Boring, I don't want mini games. How about releasing Suikoden 2 or some other PS One classics to the PSN at a faster rate like promised?

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Needed to happen to compete with the iPhone

oh my dayz

If they intend to at all compete with the I-phone, they have to seve up some free games at least. I could understand paying for a simple yet lengthy game for the Mini, but the Burn Zombie Burn minigame I saw, that is not worth any money at all. I hope Sony heeds the call soon before they make a stupid decision. But then again, selling the PSP Go with nothing but the system was stupid as well....

So, we're going to have to over-pay for some very small games that can be found for free in most places on the internet? No thanks.... And this isn't me Sony bashing - ALL the console manufacturers are guilty of charging massively inflated prices for games that are worth peanuts. The digital download revolution is so far unwelcome to me. Bring down the prices, and not just a little - MASSIVELY - then we'll talk. The thing that illustrates this most is the fact that in many cases, you can buy a physical copy of a game, whether used or brand new, for cheaper than you can a digital download... and the digital download has ZERO forwarding value, whereas you can sell your physical discs. The same goes for ipod technology - you pay £170 - £180 for an ipod, and you can spend literally hundreds of £££'s filling it with music from itunes and other sources, then when you come to sell the ipod, all you would receive is the cash for the physical item, you get nothing in return for the music on it. Until this problem is remedied and digi-download represents value for money, it's just not going to replace discs completely...

sweet that means some arcade classics will be on it like Space invaders, pac-man and tetris, right?

I think this is the comeback towards Apples iPhone/iTouch Apps

Tetris for PSP...finally.

@Sothe1789 Nintendo bought the rights to publish tetris Im not sure who currently owns the rights.

@SyedMoeed i agree that 100 mb games are a lot of memory especially for games like tetris.

Will PSP Minis only be available on the PSP Go? because i am going to get a PSP 3000.

hmmm

I'll have to wait and see...

@Sothe1789 No... Nintendo doesn't. :|

Tetris on PSP????? Nintendo OWNS Tetris how would they put tetris on psp?

hmm100 mb's a lot of space and the game are just mini flash games,not that excited but the manga reader is GREAT!!!!!

So many memories. When Tetris first came out for the original Game Boy (the big boxy gray one), it was like crack in cartridge form. Everybody had to have it.

I like the idea of small arcade titles for the PSP, but it's really not something that excites me a lot. Nothing new really about the whole concept of it IMO.

@LordRaymond They better be cheap

What will make these different though. Most games for the PSP that are dl only are 100 megs or right around there. Hopefully this won't be some wii-ware like deal.

I actually like iphone apps. This might actually be pretty sweet for the psp.

100 mb is alot of space if you know how yo use it. There are some really cool Java (most Fishlabs and Gameloft games) and flash games , think of all those iphone games that range from 5 to 50 mb (hero of sparta , BIA , Assassins creed )

kewl i love tetris

100MB is not enough for make great games and apps. Sony need to fix that up or these games are just going to be rush jobs.

Great move for Sony cheap games that are fun to play.

Its like PSN games only on psp. Brillient. Now all they have to announce is the PRICE of these. Better be no more than $5. 100mb is small so the price better match......unlike the pspGO price......

i like the idea. It's very similar to what Microsoft first did with Xbox Live Arcade. Those titles were originally capped at 256MB and that was on a home theater console. With lower resolutions for the PSP screen, you can imagine that a lot of similar types of titles could come in the form of PSP minis. _

Pathetic. Worse than the Game Boy Micro

Once again genius for Sony that could really bring in the casual audience and really is the real defination of pick up and go type of games Man Gamescom is really making Sony a different company now

i saw few interesting games in the trailer...

Snore. I hope this evil spawn of corporate greed fails miserably. Get back to making games Sony. Stop with the stupid half-assed gadgets.

Opalance: Sorry, I wasn't just talking about only the announced games. It was just a general comment.

This sounds like it will rock. and thegamerguy7 if you read the report they're talking about games for the psp go and psp-3000

@ thegamerguy7. PSP go is the new PSP. PSP mini's are 100MB or less games that dont cost much.

psp minis??? I thought at e3 they were calling them ''psp go''???????????

MaryAnnBugg Developer? It's Tetris and sudoku, freakin games that have been made again and again over and over by a dozen people. What do they have to develop? It's just a reskinning.

$2? $3? That's insulting to the developer. While I agree that the price needs to be reasonable, it also needs to be realistic. I guess it entirely depends on what sort of titles they are.

Great

Well I hope they sell it at a reasonable price.

$3 is the most i will pay for these game

It's funny how they call games under 100MB 'snackable' when you compare it to older games. I think Ocarina of TIme was under 32MB on cartridge (256Mb).

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I think this was a big mistake for Sony, sales of the PSP and PSP games are going to sink as a result. Already my local game stores have only a handful of PSP titles available; they're planning for the PSP Go and thus dumping all support of the PSP since there's no incentive for them to support the PSP. The regular casual gamer isn't going to pick up a PSP if they see no games sitting on the shelves, they're going to go pick up a DS instead. I have to say though, the PSP Go sounds great to your gaming guru that doesn't mind using their credit card to download games on PSN and is able to use all the features they want out of a PSP Go, but it's not going to have the mass appeal to consumers because not everyone is open to the idea of releasing their credit card info out into the net, some people aren't comfortable with that. And this doesn't help younger kids that don't even have credit cards and rely on their parents to buy their games. This would have been nice as an , but making it the new standard is going to hurt them.

I'm still waiting for them to expand their offering of regular PSP games. There are still titles that have come out on UMD only since the PSP Go announcement, and they're not adding things to the PSN store very quickly. Right now it looks like we'll be lucky if there are 50 titles available at launch. I personally don't even care about the PSP Go, I just want to be able to download more games on my current gen PSP.

If they keep it cheap, I'm all in. But that's seems too be a big problem for Sony too do though....

The "remake" of Final Fantasy 7 was only $10 on PSN, so these should be decently priced. At least if Sony knows what's good for 'em.