Future takes PSP magazine bi-monthly
Future is to publish a bi-monthly magazine dedicated to the PlayStation Portable (PSP) from next month.
Official
PSP Guidebook replaces a series of irregularly-published PlayStation 2
magazine specials, largely covering the PSP console, which recorded an
average ABC of 31,859 last year.
On sale from 27 April, this is the
third magazine dedicated to the console. Imagine bought the monthly
title Go Play from Highbury last year while in January, start-up
publisher Evolve Publishing launched the four-weekly title Pure PSP
with a print run of 40,000.
Unlike existing titles, the magazine will offer playable demos of new games on a covermounted UMD disc.
Future
is also in the process of overhauling its ailing unofficial PlayStation
titles, PlayStation World and PSM2, to cover the forthcoming
PlayStation 3 console, following Sony's announcement last week of a
worldwide November launch.
In 2005, PSW's circulation fell 37.6% to 70,077 and PSM2's dropped 25.7% to 54,442.
Future
will relaunch both titles this summer, though Sony has yet to award a
licence for an official PlayStation 3 magazine to replace Future's
established Official PlayStation 2.
Source:
Media Week