It must be tough being the PSP. It sells well month after month, there are a number of great games for the system, and homebrew firmware makes Sony’s portable one of the best personal media players on the market. This should be a success story, but the runaway success of the DS hogs the headlines and makes the PSP look like an also-ran. It’s like coming home with straight As to find your younger brother just won every medal in the Olympics. Sony recently dropped the price of the system in the US to $169.99 to try to get some of their momentum back, and now we’re sent word that a price drop is also coming to Europe. The system used to sell for £149.99 and €199.99, but starting May 4 you’ll be able to pick up a shiny new system for £129.99 or €169.99.

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Rich Wickham, the director of Games for Windows business, has a lot to say about gaming on Windows Vista. Here’s something he sent around that I thought you might appreciate:

Some of you may have heard about some incompatibilities with games running on Windows Vista. I’d like to clear up some misconceptions.

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