Sony considering putting PSP Minis on compilation UMD
Other platforms could also see Minis ported
Develop has been chatting with Sony's Zeno Colaco about the gaming giant's answer to the iPhone's App Store, PSP Minis.
Apparently the company is considering the possibility of getting these sub-100MB digitally distributed games out onto shop shelves by way of UMD compilations.
"I think that a package of multiple Minis games on a single UMD is a real possibility at a later stage, where even a studio or publisher will put a collection of their own games on a single disc. We’d be open to that,” Colaco explains.
The concept is a very intriguing one, which essentially offers PSP gamers and developers an avenue that iPhoners can't go down. Well, all PSP gamers except those that fork out the wheelbarrow full of cash Sony wants for the PSPgo, that is.
Apparently Colaco also made mention (in a second part of the interview due to go live later today) that Sony's equally open to the prospect of Minis going out onto other platforms, such as the PS3.
"These games won’t need to necessarily be built for the home console, and I think these games will find their true life and identity in those micro-bursts of play. But I do think there’s a possibility that Minis could find themselves on other consoles down the line.”
Clearly Sony has very high hopes for its new range of bite-sized games (as do we, to be quite honest), and is primed to use its retail and hardware network to push into areas that Apple has yet to venture.
With any luck, the vital competition that PSP Minis are due to offer to the iPhone will begin to work both ways, and prompt Apple to enter the living room as has been rumoured.
Blimey, it's an exciting time to be a pocket gamer. The next decade belongs to us, brothers and sisters!
