Dave Perry on Redesigning the PSP

From Spong:

Following on from our piece on the game industry's quietly-held belief that Sony is poised to release a reworked PSP hardware unit, SPOnG caught up with development veteran Dave Perry, former head of Shiny now fronting GameInvestors and a new MMO by the name of 2 Moons.

“It's pretty clear from our industry's history that there's a mad rush to get hardware product out, then the hardware companies start to look at ways to fix the problems they encountered. Apple does this all day every day with its iPods, their Computers and their Software.

“It's a normal business model. When you look at version 2 of the Sony PlayStation 2 (the small slick one that won't hold an internal hard disk drive like version 1 did) it's clear that they changed their mind on a major feature. If you take the latest PS2 joypad apart, you will see where there were edge connectors, they've removed them and just press track connectors together. They save every single cent they can to get the price of the product down. I hope that they will do this with the Sony PSP. It's a great little machine, but the price is a major barrier. The American public like $149 to $99 for handhelds. So how could the PSP get there?

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Source: Spong


posted on Friday, October 27, 2006 7:07 PM by Auri

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