Lack of PSP games riles Yoshida
"Missed opportunity" for third-parties
Speaking with US gaming giant IGN, Sony Worldwide Studios big wig Shuhei Yoshida has admitted the PSP's thin release schedule is troubling him. Gamers have in the past noted with dismay the lack of titles on the handheld format, but Sony have always seemed obliviously upbeat before.
"Yeah, it’s really, really disappointing and it’s a lost opportunity for the third-parties. They should look at what the PSP can do for their titles and the potential for the business that their IP has."
"We have to show by examples," Yoshida assures. "What’s happening in Japan is interesting - because of the massive success of Monster Hunter, Japanese publishers realise, ‘here’s a resource’.
"Lots of people are playing PSP in groups of fours and when you go to Japan it’s hard to find a train or a bar where you don’t see some people playing a PSP. So other publishers in Japan are seeing these consumers, and thinking, ‘Wow, we can make games for those consumers’."
More PSP tittle-tattle soon. Inevitably.
