PSP Minis discounted throughout Feb

By Robert Purchese Published 2 February, 2010

Sony taking the bull by the horns.

Sony is lowering the price of PSP and PS3 Minis in February.

The first sale starts this Thursday, 4th February and runs until Thursday, 18th February. Kahoots, Vempire, Breakquest, Majohngg Artifacts and Dracula all drop from £2.99/€2.99 to £1.74/€1.99.

Fieldrunners and Pinball Fantasies go from £3.99/€4.99 to £3.46/€3.99, and Bloons falls from £3.49/€3.99 to £1.99/€2.49.

The European PlayStation blog also promises you free Minis during February, as well as wallpapers, themes and that sort of thing. Specifics aren't mentioned yet.

Minis are small downloadable games originally only for PSP and PSPgo, but now compatible with PS3.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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  • Mkwone #1 2 years ago

    Good news they need to be priced more competitivly with Ipod Apps

  • Rev.StuartCampbell #2 2 years ago

    "Fieldrunners and Pinball Fantasies go from £3.99 to £3.46"

    I reckon that'll make all the difference.

  • alithebull #3 2 years ago

    Obviously not selling very well....

  • Toothball #4 2 years ago

    Sales are a good thing, but Minis haven't really sparked any interest with me. Since the PSP has a good standby mode, and the Go has that Pause feature, it's never really been a problem to play a longer game in short bursts for me. Other than that I've not really heard much excitement about them from anywhere, which isn't exactly encouraging. I would like it if that Canabalt game got released as a Mini though.

  • clearblue #5 2 years ago

    Hmmmm. They'll join Apple on 3 billion downloads in no time!

  • Eraysor #6 2 years ago

    Perhaps people have become cautious of buying anything from Sony now they've abandoned the UMD format. I know I wouldn't want all my old purchases nullified one day. Obviously you can play UMDs by keeping your old PSP, but it's not going to last forever.

  • gallow #7 2 years ago

    I would like to buy some mini's for some quick gaming on the move but I am not buying a game, no matter how cheap, from just a basic text description. Very few mini's (well the ones I have looked at) seem to include any screen shots or game video so I can get a feeling for the game.

  • hulahoops #8 2 years ago

    Have they decided to sensibly start calling them Minis instead of minis now then?

  • Godz_Mercenary #9 2 years ago

    Here's a free tip to how you'll sell more Sony:

    Provide free trial versions of all the games."


    That's not possible. It's too much of a logical idea for Sony to contemplate such a thing. They need illogical ideas.

  • jonsaan #10 2 years ago

    @frod_

    Is PM CE coming to psp??

    /sexwee

  • jonsaan #11 2 years ago

    Pretty much any mini can be youtubed. Not ideal, but it gives you an idea. I own quite a lot and I hate to say it but only a handful are worth real money. They need to up the quality. Oh and get Drop7 on there!

  • toy_brain #12 2 years ago

    A few of the minis are worth the cash, Cubixx, Kahoots, Pinball Dreams and Fantasies, and Fieldrunners.
    Problem is, there are no demos, no reviews up before the game comes out, and still very few after release, so buying one is a total crapshoot.

    Sony need to start pushing more info out there if they want the sales and attention.

  • laharl80 #13 2 years ago

    All i want is Tetris for the PS3 which they are supposed to be working on.

  • Whatsfor #14 2 years ago

    Kahoots is a fantastic Mini for that price. Fieldrunners is also good albeit not a huge saving.

  • el_pollo_diablo #15 2 years ago

    Well, as a psp owner for years and a new iPod touch owner, the app store wins hands down. I've spent a good £20 on apps (altough that'll slow down soon no doubt) and precisely £0 on minis. Timewasting little games really do have to be dirt cheap. The minis just seem to be a tiny bit too much to drop on an unknown. And this price drop isn't going to help

  • Lord_Gremlin #16 2 years ago

    Free minis - 100% they're trying to get PS3 owners to buy PSPs.

  • alcides #17 2 years ago

    I think the problem is with the brand itself. That brand sounds like an excuse for poor, basic, uninteresting gameplay.

    It sounds like something a phone could run and my MOM would find interesting. She typically plays mahjong for hours on end on the PC. Me? I'd rather hang myself than play that.

    But then I don't know what to expect with minis, since we mostly see the BRAND and not what's underneath. *checks Eurogamer for reviews*

  • TILT #18 2 years ago

    @jonsaan
    Wasn't that the idea behind introducing minis? Getting a huge number of cheap games onto the PSN Store, even if most of them are crap, to compete against the billions of apps in the AppStore?

    I don't know what the consensus is now, but I seem to remember that the PSN Store for the PS3 was often unfavorably compared to the Xbox Live thing. While it does have a high percentage of really good games, it doesn't offer a large number of games altogether, and people seemed to want more selection for some reason. So I figured minis was to be the answer to that. Don't own any, though.

  • darkmorgado #19 2 years ago

    @disc


    Provide free trial versions of all the games.

    Couldn't agree more. This is the reason my xbox hard drive is full of XBLA games but my PS3 drive is empty. It also makes me wonder how much confidence Sony have in the quality of a lot of the games they farm out. If they think it's good, what's the harm in giving a demo? I have the same problem with DSi and Wii DL games. I would rather try a game before I buy, and saying the price point makes it ok doesn't tally - all those microtransactions would soon add up.

  • My1stLoveJak #20 2 years ago

    I've been buying up some Minis, might have to get some more. Blast Off is great, Tetris speaks for itself, wish I waited for Kahoots...and now I'm definitely getting Pinball Fantasies, thanks to the measley price drop