echochrome doubles in cost on PSP [Update]


Our friend Spencer from Siliconera laments over the strange pricing of Sony's echochrome. The title will be available in Japan as a downloadable PS3 title (via PSN) and as a stand-alone UMD game on PSP. We can understand why the PSP version would be more expensive (it costs money to print those discs!), but the price difference is quite staggering. "A physical UMD disc for the PSP costs 3,980 yen ($37) while the downloadable PlayStation 3 edition only costs 1800 yen ($17)."

Other than having an inverted color scheme, no differences between the two have been announced. Hopefully, if SCEA decides to pick up the PSP version, they'll do the smart thing and release it on the PLAYSTATION Store (for the cheap!).

Update: Apparently, the UMD version of echochrome contains two times the levels as the PS3 version. At least you're getting your money's worth!

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