so if a publisher wants to price a game for a hundred bucks sony has no say to that?.. wtf is wrong with you sony, youre the one hosting or providing these games on PSN and yet you have no authority or control over the prices?.. this is BS..

Its actually great that Sony doesn't regulate the pricing. They would probably set the prices higher than they are now. Its great that Sony is setting up a market place where people can hock their wares. Think of it like Ebay for game developers. Would you like Ebay if they came down on you for asking too much for an item you were selling? The finger can't be pointed at Sony in this one.

what does the PSP Go have to do with Minis and any other DD, as long as you have a PSP 1-3000 or a go you can download DD off the PSN.

Well sony isn't the one making the games.

The simple fact is there's only a small market for Psp minis untill the average person gets to know about it, and in a small market you have high prices untill you get more customers and you can start to discount, it is the way all businesses work and Sony is the one responsible for making sure people are aware of Psn, these developers are doing exactly what is needed right now untill there's more potential customers.

To attract new customers, release the new games half price for the first week, that way these people buy a lot more of the games, and they go off and tell there mates who then become new customers through word of mouth, and so it goes on.

Meanwhile Sony + the software developers make a killing in sales, then put the prices back up to there proper prices after a week.

This way everybody gains something out of it.

I point my finger directly at Sony and the other big companies that make devs jack up the price.



Example: Kurok. Great game, kept me interested for a good solid week, which is about the same level of enjoyment tetris and similar 'legitimate' games are. The only difference: Kurok + free, minis + 5-10 bucks. Why? Because Sony's devkit costs $1500 and the ESRB rating costs like $2500. That's $4000, and if there's only 5 devs making this, that's $800 a piece just to make a game that isn't even supposed to be an in depth game. What group of people short of 20 members is going to want to take the time to work hard on a game and then possibly lose money by releasing it?



If it was maybe $100 to make a mini, so many more people would come out with games and sell them at ridiculously low prices just to break even. Yeah, that contributes for more 'crap apps' on the PSP, but 'crap apps' are better than barely any at all.