Spain: El Pais on Playstation Portable

Posted by John Burke on June 26, 2006 at 12:52 PM

Juan Varela at Periodistas 21 reports that Spain's top selling daily, El Pais, has launched an edition for Sony's popular video-game device, Playstation Portable. The PSP version will join El Pais' PDA and cellular phone editions as the paper expands its multimedia distribution offerings.

It will also add to the daily's efforts to attract younger readers, efforts which it reinforced last year with the multimedia, Internet-based EP3.

After taking a quick look, Varela considers the PSP edition to use few graphics, being mostly text with small pictures that doesn't make for very pleasant reading on such a device. Grupo Prisa, El Pais' parent company, will have to work on it.

The Norwegian paper, Dagbladet was the first paper to create a PSP edition back in September 2005.

Source: Periodistas 21 (in Spanish)