Comments on: Edge: “Third-parties abandoning PSP”

By: El_MUERkO

El_MUERkO — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:53:58 +0000

PSP2 – March 17th 2009

By: Blerk

Blerk — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:46:51 +0000

PSP hardware is doing pretty well, but the charts are generally barren of PSP software every single week and the list of forthcoming releases is pretty poor.

I think it’s almost certainly a targetting problem. They want it to be a portable PS2, but PS2 games aren’t the sorts of games you generally want to play on your commute. Sony themselves are doing bits and pieces more in line with the DS’s throw-away ‘just a quick go’ stuff, but it doesn’t sell. Everyone else is just porting their PS2/Wii stuff as is, regardless of whether people want it and/or whether it’s suitable for the PSP controls. It’s a very confused platform.

By: rainer

rainer — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:42:42 +0000

Arent PSP’s still selling well at retail though ?

I think the biggest problem are the controls on the PSP, they should have redesigned it so it had the same buttons as the playstation game pad or at minimum a second analogue stick.

Without the ability to do bread and butter titles like FPS, third person shooters effectively I think developers are just ignoring it now. The remote play feature on the PS3 is also badly crippled because of this as well.

By: Tonka

Tonka — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:06:20 +0000

Now that SonyEricsson are up shit creek with a rubberband in lieu of a paddle the chances of a PSPhone are about the same as Patcher getting salesnumbers right.

By: Robo_1

Robo_1 — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:55:00 +0000

Agreed, they really need to change the PSP. I predict the PSPhone, with links to the PSN.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:24:32 +0000

I don’t think we really needed to see research and graphs to come to this conclusion. The PSP is just about dead at retail, software-wise. The sooner they drop the whole UMD thing and make it all download-only the better.