Sony Preps Playstation Portable Puzzlers (Siliconera)
There’s
little doubt that Nintendo DS as revived a couple of gaming genres,
including puzzle games. Polarium, Meteos and even the Brain Training
series are all part of the puzzle genre. Coincidentally, all of these
games are also hot sellers on the DS. Not to be out done Sony decided
to dust off a couple of PSP classics for re-release this March. You’ll
be able to get a copy of XI Coliseum (Devil Dice in the USA) a remake
of the brain bending dice rotating puzzle game, Bomberman: Bakafuu
Sentai Bomberman with wireless action and I.Q. Mania a remix of
Intelligent Qube with even more puzzles than the original.All
of these games all you to play with ad-hoc (i.e. people next to each
other PSPs in hand) wireless, but you don’t need to have the same game
to play over Wifi. So if you have a copy of Bomberman and someone else
has I.Q. Mania both of you can play Bomberman. Each game also comes
packaged with a couple of mini games like Mahjong and Bowling. Could
these games attract the same “non gamer” audience that the DS is going
for?