Cover Yourself Up: PSP Gets Girly
While the DS, Nintendo’s ultra popular handheld, may have wooed the entire casual and female market into buying their touch sensitive machine, Sony hasn’t shared the same success with it’s PlayStation Portable, with the sleek device mainly being played by core gamers. However, this hasn’t stopped Sony trying to court casuals with family friendly games and Hanna Montana bundles as they understandably hunger for a piece of the new gaming market’s very juicy pie. One developer which has managed to exploit the market very profitably is Ubisoft, who’s Petz franchise is a multi million sellers on the DS, now they have turned their attention to the PSP.
Out from today on the EU PlayStation Store is Ubisoft’s PSP game Cover Girl, an interactive mini-game, magazine style title. The game is detailed by a rather confused Mike Kebby of the PlayStation Store Team, who explained:
‘I had no idea what Cover Girl was either – I’m taking the description directly from the database here:
“Specially designed for active young women, Cover Girl is a digital friend that adds a touch of glamour to your busy day-to-day. Elaborated in collaboration with professional female writers, Cover Girl provides qualitative and interesting content which you customise. You decide the content of your magazine in accordance with your desires and interests :
Get your daily dose of fresh air with funny facts on love & men, life tips, mini-games, horoscopes and tarot reading, fashion trends…
Play addictive & fun mini-games to have fun any time of the day
Discover unique & fun tools like the Sex-o-Meter, Manlation (a fun translator for explaining male behavior), a size converter for shoes and clothes… “’
Through games like Cover Girl Sony’s handheld is made more accessible to broader audiences, but due to the title’s very inaccessible price point of £23.99/€29.99, the success of such a game is very questionable.
A full trailer can be viewed below, courtesy of German website PlayStation Portable:
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October 15th, 2009 at 8:31 PM
pass
October 15th, 2009 at 8:39 PM
a sex and the city rpg, on the other hand…
October 15th, 2009 at 8:52 PM
Japan had mystylus game as well..
October 15th, 2009 at 9:12 PM
hahahaha, no!
October 15th, 2009 at 9:41 PM
@megs1120 that would be interesting.
October 15th, 2009 at 9:45 PM
LAME!!!
I could see it now… (Mom to son)
“John! Your grounded from your PSP! I’m going to hide it for the next few dayyyssss….. MONTHS!”
“BUT WHYY?!?!?!” *Que dramatic music*
*Mom snatches PSP and runs off*
@selfja:
Really? I almost thought everyone on this website wanted this…
October 16th, 2009 at 12:43 PM
“Sex-o-Meter, Manlation , a size converter, tarot reading
this is starting to sound pretty good, must be a slow day for me…
October 17th, 2009 at 4:18 AM
i don’t even think my girlfriend would like this crap. i’ll have to ask her. highly doubt it though.
October 17th, 2009 at 4:33 AM
sarah jessica horseface….ugh please no more
October 18th, 2009 at 5:33 AM
nice read! I just got my new PS slim last week, it’s pretty good
Sincerly,
Sodagod @ Modern Warfare 2 Forums