In an interview with Gamasutra, D2C founder and Madden veteran Scott Orr called Sony's PlayStation Portable "a sleeping giant" in terms of possible sales.
D2C has lined up some new titles to be launched this spring for the PSP and WiiWare, including SPOGS Racing, the bull riding title we told you about earlier. Gamasutra asked Orr why he chose these platforms over Xbox Live or PSN. He cited the Wii's mass-market appeal, and added that the PSP is also well suited to the family-oriented, downloadable style games.
"I believe given its installed base and increasingly strong sales, the PSP platform is a sleeping giant just waiting for the right kind of content that’s value priced and easily obtainable," said Orr.
Orr went on to say that he's not ruling out Live or PSN, but he did say that most titles have been "lacking in originality" up until this point.
Do you think the PSP has potential as a source of downloadable games?
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But hey, that would totally rock if this dude wasn't speaking out of his ass just because he has product on the thing, like so many developers seem to do these days. "I love [Insert console here]. By the way, buy my game!".
I just don't see PSP really stayin so much on top as the sales show. Yes some passable games are hitting out on it and it's spiking up sales, but in Japan, Nintendo still owns many Japanese souls and most americans who have a psp well...
custom firmware wat?
i am playing through metal gear solid for the second time on it and it is awesome
I think the puzzle games on the PSP are a lot better and much more engaging than the ones on the DS, which just seem to be variants of each other that are consistently rebranded. Stuff like Echochrome and Practical Intelligence Quotient get me going more than moving around colored blocks.
Games on the PSP provided you go for older games are also cheaper than the DS. The new stuff like Crisis Core is more expensive but at least the titles drop in price unlike certain DS games which take forever to drop or just don't drop at all, not even for used copies (if you play 1st party games). I play 90% 3rd party games for the DS so the games I buy drop in price nicely and I don't have this problem.
Memory sticks have also gotten VERY reasonably priced for the PSP and I only expect them to go down more in price. I got a 4gb sandisk card for 40$ a few months ago from staples.com and no it was not a fake from ebay. The memory stick is what really makes the PSP, without a decent memory stick you cannot do anything with the console, and this is from someone who doesn't even have CFW.
not for the PSP, for the kitteh
I would love to see that change, though.
*doesn't read article*