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Sony courting indie devs with faster quality assurance, lower price points for new PSP games

Posted Jul 14, 2009 at 5:18AM EST by Karl B.

Listed in: News, Games, PSP Go Tags: India, PlayStation Network, SDK, Sony

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The price cut on the PSP devkit has already opened PSP development to more interested parties, but apparently that's not Sony's only approach to bringing in more devs to the handheld.

According to Develop, Sony is also cutting down on the time it takes for a game (or app) to pass the quality assurance process. They're also abolishing concept approval and, perhaps best of all, they'll be instituting very low price points for new games.

As part of their bid to further propagate digital distribution especially for the PSP and the new PSP Go, Sony has already signed on over 50 developers working on new games and apps. More are also reportedly on the verge of joining.

One of the new devs working on content for the PSP platform is iPhone stalwart Subatomic Studios, who is currently preparing a PSP-exclusive version of its Fieldrunners tower defense game. India's Gameshastra and PlayStation Network vets Creat have also signed on.

"WeÂ’re making games that are just 20MB each, thatÂ’s less than a minute to download Â– instant gratification, snackable content," said Subatomic's Ash Monif. "This is an opportunity for the premier indie developers Â– and I hope we represent that group Â– to come in and offer content that will fit the PSP."

Via Develop

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Developers that haven't had any game releases have done a good job on releasing games.

Take the DS game Black Sigil Blade of the Exiled. This is a game developed by college students who took pretty much any developer that would release the game for them. This game is amazing. It started out as a GBA title but then they decided they'd rework it for the DS.

# There is a slim chance of 20mb having great games — senecaz 2009-07-14 14:27

N+ .. exit .. nope, no thanks

the only great small ones I've seen so far was luxor, flow, oh and nothing else or perhaps somebody enlighten me about 20mb being a great snackable game eh..

# ... — SeRosiS 2009-07-14 15:56

Have you played any games for the N64, SNES, NES, Genesis, etc?

All under 20 Mb...

It'd be awesome if someone from the UQM project would do an official build for the PSP.

Under 20 Mb without all the remix music and voice overs.

# . — Retrohelix 2009-07-14 18:45

Hope Popcap Develops game for the psp now.....Plants vs. Zombies FTW!

# You can kiss my @$$ BCH!!! — icypsp 2009-07-15 05:55

Shows how much you know nerd!!

I download crappy games all the time.

Just because they are cvrappy doesnt mean i dont enjoy them. Now define a crappy game, HA you cant so STFU BCH its my opinion, i buy and pirate what ever the FK i want! You aint nothing but a suck up! Go choke on one BCH!

# . — downloader1122 2009-07-18 14:25

I wonder if they'll try and push Bejewelled, even after a homebrew version was released 4 years ago.

I can understand Sony trying to protect PS Store from 100 variations of homebrew tetris, but that doesn't mean all homebrew is drivel. To the contrary some licensed games can/will be considered as second rate and this will dilute the PS Store.

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