Plato to school kids with new learning games for PSP

by Jason Dobson { Mar 4th 2008 at 8:50AM }

Despite a handful of 'me too' cash grabs for Sony's portable, exercising gray matter has been the domain of the Nintendo DS. However, Plato Learning, an e-learning company based out of Minnesota, has hatched a plan to bring educational games to the PSP beginning sometime in April.

The games, part of the company's existing Achieve Now line of educational products, will be targeted at helping elementary and middle school students "meet high academic standards and improve academic proficiency" in areas such as language, reading, and math. The project could potentially bring as many as 57 different educational titles to the PSP, but will the games give players an inferiority complex by telling them they think with an addled brain of someone twice their age? For now, this too remains Nintendo's exclusive domain.

[Via PSP Fanboy]

Tags: achieve-now, achievenow, brain-age, brainage, e-learning, plato

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Co @ Mar 4th 2008 8:56AM

This is like Viva Pinata on the 360: Wrong audience.

Jerk Face @ Mar 4th 2008 8:57AM

That picture is full of Win.

chris @ Mar 4th 2008 8:58AM

I knew this game would suck

chris @ Mar 4th 2008 8:58AM

dammit, wrong article

Nikonov @ Mar 4th 2008 9:52AM

Is it really?

Embrace @ Mar 4th 2008 10:20AM

Nice,

I work for the company who provides Platos network monitoring, they have a great bunch of people over there.

DarkTetsuya @ Mar 5th 2008 2:44AM

The same PLATO responsible for hooking me on 'Avatar'? (not to be confused with the air bending nick cartoon) I miss that game. :(

Kspraydad @ Mar 4th 2008 10:21AM

PSP has Mind Quiz already as a Brain Training wannabee.

required @ Mar 4th 2008 11:25AM

All I can say is that Jason Dobson knows very little about the PSP library and snuggles up to his DS a bit too tightly.

Lavat @ Mar 4th 2008 11:29AM

Plato was a bore...

hvnlysoldr @ Mar 9th 2008 5:16PM

They're missing out on the scribbling to writing kids potential in DS games. Instead of multiple choice and simplistic yet unrelated gameplay kids would scribble/write the answers. This real life motion of actual writing translates to school easier since they'll be required to write in tests and schoolwork anyway.