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Sony admits it didn't support the PSP enough

March 11, 2009 in News comments 6

Sony has come out and said they under-supported the PSP in the last year, with most of their efforts going into the PS3. But all that is about to change after Sony announced an amazing lineup for the PSP, including titles such as Motorstorm, LittleBigPlanet, Resistance, Assassins Creed, Rock Band and Buzz.

However, as Sony's senior VP and MD for UK, Ireland and the Nordic region Ray Maguire admitted, the corporation has been guilty of letting the PSP drift in the past year.

"It was slightly under-supported, mainly because a lot of the energy was going into stuff we're doing for PlayStation 3," he explained to GamesIndustry.biz. "There was an added complication in that the UMD model wasn't brilliant for third parties, either.

"But I think as the installed base has grown - we're now at 50 million globally - the PSP has become one of the best-selling formats ever, and I think people are seeing that they need to get back into it. I think we had a bit of a barren year last year, and this year we seem to have a bumper crop.

"I think it's one of those formats which has just, almost silently, grown and grown and grown. Now people are looking at 3 million installed base in the UK, and seeing it's a healthy number - that they can sell product against that.
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  • 1
    Wolverine527 Mar 11, 09
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    Sony has come out and said they under-supported the PSP in the last year
    In the last year? More like since the PSP's launch,there's barely any good games for it,whereas the DS has tons of great games on it.
    • 1
      Slumpy monkey Mar 11, 09
      Monster hunter MAN, that series alone was enough for me to buy a psp and never play my ds again. They can still make it better. With 50 million sold that's a lot of money to be made from games.
    • 1
      iLLmatic Mar 11, 09
      That's debatable. PSP definitely could have benefited more with more games, but I would never say there are barely any good games for it. The DS has more games, but that doesn't mean anything in itself.
  • 0
    sonytastic Mar 11, 09
    i wish they would put more effort into games though coz they really gotz no good games for it oh well hopefully they will make more games soon
    • 0
      Bale Fire* Mar 11, 09
      They already have, that's the whole article's point, they didn't support it enough before, but now they're trying to.
  • 0
    Aussie Legend Mar 12, 09
    quote OP
    Sony has come out and said they under-supported the PSP in the last year, with most of their efforts going into the PS3.
    Yeah... how is that that workin' out for yah

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