Chandoo
02-02-07, 02:35 AM
Sony to compete against Nintendo with PSP's multimedia features (http://www.pspfanboy.com/2007/02/01/sony-to-compete-against-nintendo-with-psps-multimedia-features/)
Posted Feb 1st 2007 12:05PM by Andrew Yoon (http://www.pspfanboy.com/bloggers/andrew-yoon/)
Filed under: News (http://www.pspfanboy.com/category/news/)
http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.pspfanboy.com/media/2007/02/tmpphpu1nfqs.jpg (http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7B85C08613-22EE-44FF-8B9C-9C624E690075%7D&siteid=mktw)After reporting some pretty disappointing losses (http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2007/01/31/the-official-sony-q3-financial-report/), Sony is desperately trying to restructure its games division to at least break even. After stating boldly that they will not give up (http://www.pspfanboy.com/2007/01/30/psp-shipments-down-75-sony-refuses-to-give-up/) on the PSP, Sony will now seriously push the multimedia capabilities of the system. They've already started developing partnerships with media providers (http://www.pspfanboy.com/2006/12/18/sony-moving-forward-with-video-download-service/), such as amazon, but it looks like Sony is looking for even larger partnerships.
According to MarketWatch (http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7B85C08613-22EE-44FF-8B9C-9C624E690075%7D&siteid=mktw), analysts are predicting Sony will partner up with "at least one big ISP, such as Yahoo." Such tie-ins will promote the PSP's ability to download movies, television shows and PlayStation games (http://www.pspfanboy.com/tag/retroreview). The PSP is technically capable of doing a lot, but the goal is to get the word out to the mainstream.
"It was pretty much a competition issue with the Nintendo so we have to fight back by introducing more attractive applications [for the PSP] by using the network," Nobuyuki Oneda, Sony's CFO, told the Financial Times.
[Thanks, nav (http://thinkytech.blogspot.com/)! Via paidContent (http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/sony-to-do-a-renewed-push-on-psp-content-focus-with-a-big-brand/)]
Read (http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7B85C08613-22EE-44FF-8B9C-9C624E690075%7D&siteid=mktw)
Posted Feb 1st 2007 12:05PM by Andrew Yoon (http://www.pspfanboy.com/bloggers/andrew-yoon/)
Filed under: News (http://www.pspfanboy.com/category/news/)
http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.pspfanboy.com/media/2007/02/tmpphpu1nfqs.jpg (http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7B85C08613-22EE-44FF-8B9C-9C624E690075%7D&siteid=mktw)After reporting some pretty disappointing losses (http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2007/01/31/the-official-sony-q3-financial-report/), Sony is desperately trying to restructure its games division to at least break even. After stating boldly that they will not give up (http://www.pspfanboy.com/2007/01/30/psp-shipments-down-75-sony-refuses-to-give-up/) on the PSP, Sony will now seriously push the multimedia capabilities of the system. They've already started developing partnerships with media providers (http://www.pspfanboy.com/2006/12/18/sony-moving-forward-with-video-download-service/), such as amazon, but it looks like Sony is looking for even larger partnerships.
According to MarketWatch (http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7B85C08613-22EE-44FF-8B9C-9C624E690075%7D&siteid=mktw), analysts are predicting Sony will partner up with "at least one big ISP, such as Yahoo." Such tie-ins will promote the PSP's ability to download movies, television shows and PlayStation games (http://www.pspfanboy.com/tag/retroreview). The PSP is technically capable of doing a lot, but the goal is to get the word out to the mainstream.
"It was pretty much a competition issue with the Nintendo so we have to fight back by introducing more attractive applications [for the PSP] by using the network," Nobuyuki Oneda, Sony's CFO, told the Financial Times.
[Thanks, nav (http://thinkytech.blogspot.com/)! Via paidContent (http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/sony-to-do-a-renewed-push-on-psp-content-focus-with-a-big-brand/)]
Read (http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7B85C08613-22EE-44FF-8B9C-9C624E690075%7D&siteid=mktw)