On Kombo.com: Is the PSP Doom’d?
Yesterday delivered news of a big ouchie for the PSP: Ready at Dawn, the esteemed developers of God of War: Chains of Olympus sent their PSP devkits back to Sony. Ready at Dawn President Didier Malenfant said, “We feel like we’ve done everything we wanted to do with the PSP,” and the gaming world hissed “Ohhhh, buuuuuurn!” through its teeth, shaking its limp right hand for emphasis.
Ready at Dawn’s abandonment coupled with the PSP’s lacklustre performance as of late has Kombo.com wondering about the shady future of the PSP. I hesitate to say the handheld is doomed, but the little guy just isn’t picking up the momentum it needs.
Kombo’s article also addresses Sony’s struggle with piracy:
“Naturally, you can’t blame this all on Ready at Dawn for stopping development for the PSP. The real blame comes down to other third-party developers, Sony, and piracy. Far too many PSP games are available to download on pirate sites and this hurts game sales even further for the struggling handheld. Even so, if Sony wants to get the PSP back in a viable position in the handheld market they need create some new unique titles and resurrect titles from the past that fans want to see recreated. A Final Fantasy VII port would spark sales without question. I, personally, would love to see Legend of Dragoon land on the PSP in the future. Ready at Dawn struck a major blow to the PSP, now it’s time to see how Sony can recover from their loss.”
Whoa, Legend of Dragoon? We want to help the patient, doctor, not murder it.
Read the article and yell out your opinion. Or yell it out without reading the article. Heck, just yell. It’s a good way to relieve stress.
(Image courtesy of Kombo.com.)
I hadn’t heard about the Ready at Dawn thing, ouch. I don’t think the PSP is in much worse shape then it was last year around this time. This is primarily because I am a huge Star Ocean fan and am holding out hope that Square-Enix localize the remakes, which would make the system worth it to me just for that.
Yeah, I definitely think the PSP will endure until the end of this generation. I wonder what kinds of lessons Sony has learned, though, and how it’ll act on them.