"I think going into next year we're going to see significant growth. We're counseling retail to be ready for it. We have a number of very strong franchise games on the docket that will be launching next year," John Koller responded to Edge's troubling report on the decline of PSP software. "We haven't gone public with those, and many third-parties have not yet either because they're concentrating on holiday, but we have a number of very strong titles coming."While we understand that many of these unannounced titles may be far off from now, we're a bit saddened to see Sony (and their third party partners) remain so secretive about the upcoming 2009 lineup. Right now, it appears Sony is abandoning holiday 2008 altogether. How will they drum up support for the handheld this Christmas season, when they've shown no guarantees of what will be available in the coming months? Sony -- it's time to stop playing the same ol' game of secrecy. Now, when your customers are losing faith in your system, is when you should bypass the typical product marketing schedule -- and you give us something to get excited about.
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9-25-2008 @ 10:02AM
David Black said...
Maybe we will hear about some of these at TGS?
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9-25-2008 @ 10:06AM
SparkyJ23 said...
You can counsel retail as much as you want you'll STILL get no phucking shelf space, And if your not in the shops guess what - you wont sell any product. Get off your backside and stop putting out 1 good game a year dumbass
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9-25-2008 @ 10:14AM
drdre74 said...
Yeah I've pretty much given up on PSP its starting to turn more and more into and paper weight for me. Only a hand full of games even worth buying. They do one good game a year pretty much. All the games for the PSP that would be cool end up on PSN or XBOX Live
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9-25-2008 @ 10:51AM
Mike McCrary said...
You know what would be a good way to move units? Pretend that this FF7 remake for the PS3 is actually happening. So sell the remake on a BD for the standard 59.99, but ALSO for free, include the original FF7 on UMD in the box, along with a voucher for 10 dollars off the purchase of a new PSP system or something.
I know you can already play FF7 via remote play if you have the original discs, or on ROMS if you have a hacked system, but this would be a lot easier. Maybe even have it so that you can share save files between the remake and the UMD so that wherever you are in the remake, you can pick up on-the-go with the original.
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9-25-2008 @ 3:10PM
David Black said...
Good idea Mike. Sony needs to think outside the box for PSP software solutions. One of the ideas that has been floated was to have a plug-in UMD reader for the PS3 so that any PSP game could be played on a PSP as well. The saved game functionality that you mentioned would come into play here as well. I think this would help clear the shelves of some existing software and possibly drive the third-party developers to consider new software as it could be "PSP exclusive" but actually be playable on PS3.
9-25-2008 @ 3:12PM
David Black said...
Edit: Sorry, I meant any PSP game could then be played on a PS3 obviously.
9-25-2008 @ 11:18AM
bobo said...
Agree. Sad to see the potential of the PSP frittered away like this for years. One of hte only bright spots on the PSP's horizon is that it's doing well in Japan, which might mean that software support for North Americans won't entirely dry up. Homebrew is the another thing keeping the PSP interesting these days.
Doesn't matter for me much anyway - once the Pandora open source handheld is released, I'll pretty much forget about the PSP entirely.
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9-25-2008 @ 11:32AM
Saigon said...
This is sad and pathetic. Way to give up Sony.
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9-25-2008 @ 12:55PM
richard priest said...
maybe koller secretly works for nintendo.
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9-25-2008 @ 12:55PM
TM said...
what a way to show love to your handheld.....secrecy
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9-25-2008 @ 5:41PM
aj said...
Maybe it's a market thing. You know, they can't release bad news and scare off customers, investors, and developers, but at the same time they have no idea what good news even is. What would be the "killer app" that would launch the PSP into orbit? Monster Hunter did it in Japan, in NA.....not so much, it seems. So they have to do something, but they don't know what will work, and as such, they don't know what to say to keep people from just abandoning the whole thing.
9-25-2008 @ 1:04PM
atastysammich said...
2009 will be better if and only if somebody mentions something about Phantasy Star Portable.
(But I'd settle for Jumping Flash! 2 on the Playstation Store.)
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9-25-2008 @ 5:16PM
lorddshadow said...
Monster Hunter Portable 2ndG localized?
9-25-2008 @ 5:32PM
atastysammich said...
No deal.
9-25-2008 @ 2:25PM
biffpow said...
Absurd remarks form Sony. "Trust us, we've got good secret things behind the curtain! Buy more systems!"
There are so many things they've done wrong with this system and so many opportunities they've blown--this coming holiday season is just one more item to add to that list. Judging by the way Sony US has managed the PSP, it's like they'd been selling cotton balls for 100 years, then someone decided they ought to get into video games. Love the system, hate the corporation.
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9-26-2008 @ 9:33AM
andwhyisit said...
Nah! The cotton bud team got reassigned to the psp. Unfortunately Sony US has been struggling due to a lack of cotton bud income. Though Sony Japan has both a PSP and cotton bud team, so they are doing better.
9-25-2008 @ 2:35PM
bryansurvive said...
why hide the games. just promote early. we all like good news. if your game sucks i wanna know way before, cus i wont even look at the cover if i never heard of it. maybe their is no secret and sony is finally looking at psp for help.
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9-25-2008 @ 2:55PM
TM said...
if microsoft had their own psp-like hanheld I wonder if they would use it like sony has not
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9-25-2008 @ 3:46PM
Warner Young said...
Most likely they just don't want to announce titles before TGS. Otherwise, it kind of wastes a lot of the moolah they spend on the show. At least, I hope that's the reason.
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9-25-2008 @ 4:10PM
Eric said...
I have sat on the sideline too long with this PSP. I am tired of nothing showing up.
I had a DS, sold it for my PSP - and now wish I hadn't.
Well, I give up - gonna sell mine while its still worth a little bit.
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