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Sony Plans PSP Comeback In America

Livewire_19 | August 01, 2008 | News | Playstation Portable 
As far as exclusives and AAA quality titles go, Sony's PlayStation Portable had a good start this year, picking up the momentum with Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII and God of War: Chains of Olympus. However, while at E3 Sony revealed several new products for the PSP at their press conference, third parties didn't say much. In the following article, Sony explains what else we have to look forward to for the handheld in the next 12 months.
“Where we are today is the result of a development cycle from 18 months ago,” said Koller. “18 months ago PSP hardware wasn’t doing quite as well in terms of sales. Since then, it’s taken off. We’ve been talking to a lot of developers and really trying to change their thinking about how PSP is doing and they’ve realized it from what they’ve seen at retail.” This isn’t just hype. PSP has been the best-selling system in Japan for months, outselling the Wii, DS and PS3. This is a big change from 18 months ago when DS was still dominant. Credit is given to the introduction of the slim PSP late last year and the continued success of Capcom’s “Monster Hunter” series on Sony’s handheld.

“Going towards the end of the year and going into 09 and beyond, we’re going to see a lot of very large franchise games come from third-parties,” he said. “They’re going to be a bit of a surprise, they’re going to be like ‘Wow, that’s coming to PSP?’”
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    Jak66 | August 02, 2008
    Very interesting. :0
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    Zerpent | August 03, 2008
    Hmm. Might be worth buying a PSP soon.
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    HisServant77 | August 04, 2008
    Am I terrible at hoping for more multifunctionality with the PSP over games? I rarely play games on my PSP, but always look at other features for it. Can't wait for the GPS (but still loving the idea of using it in games)!

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