Game|Life Podcast: PlayStation Price Grows as Tokyo Game Show Shrinks

We dig into the big news and trends of this weekend’s Tokyo Game Show, on this episode of the Game|Life podcast.
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Tokyo Game Show attendees play a demo of a new PlayStation Vita game on Thursday.Photo courtesy Tokyo Game Show

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We dig into the big news and trends of this weekend’s Tokyo Game Show, on this episode of the Game|Life podcast.

As usual, Wired senior editors Chris Baker and Peter Rubin join me in the podcast room to discuss the week’s news. Sony announced a new model of PlayStation 3 before Japan’s biggest gaming expo kicked off. But in doing so it raised, not lowered, the price of the unit for the United States. PlayStation Vita didn’t get a much-needed price cut or big new game announcements, and we wonder aloud about what kind of future it can possibly have — especially as game developers keep putting out games on the old PSP, which still sells for lots of money in Japan.

We discuss some of our Borderlands 2 and Mark of the Ninja experiences, plus we get into the ol’ Phonebags, reading some of your text messages (hit us up at 567.694.5326 or 56 POW! GL FAN).

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