Yes, I’ve heard the news that iDOLM@STER is coming to PSP by the end of the year – or more accurately, coming to PSP three times by the end of the year. I can’t say I’m particularly surprised that they are doing three separate releases due to the amount of audio data in the game – aside from all the spoken dialogue, there’s obviously all the song data, stored multiple times for each character. Hopefully we’ll get the 360 and Live For You songs as a trade off for the missing characters, but there’s not been anything said about the song selection yet.

Anyway, in a move that probably isn’t a surprise to anyone reading, I’m presently planning to buy all three versions. For those who haven’t been following the news, or hasn’t heard everything yet, I’ll sum up what I presently know about these releases…

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The latest issue of Famitsu has an announcement for a new 360 iMAS game, Live for You. From what has been said, it’s sounding like an uber-stripped down version of iMAS – that is, it has the actual game part removed, leaving just the dress up and performance parts of the game. I’m guessing that DLC sales for the first iMAS game have slowed down to the point where they feel that it’s more profitable to make a whole new release out of a bunch of them.

Then sell some more download content for that one.
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