Sony to Continue Support for PSP After NGP’s Release

[croagunk.master]

Shuhei Yoshida, president of Sony Computer Entertainment worldwide studios has recently told magazine Edge that the company intends to continue development and sales of it’s floundering PSP console after they release it’s successor – the NGP.

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[Maedhros]

That was expected. They'll only ask for developers to release these new games on PSN too, for people with NGP download on the future.

 

[yeop]

I hope NGP doesn´t get all good games and leave only bad(or at least not so good) games for PSP

 

[FireGrey]

When the NGP comes out i might pick up a pre-owned PSP

 

[RupeeClock]

THEY will, but I doubt any third party developers will.

 

[croagunk.master]

When the NGP comes out i might pick up a pre-owned PSP

It'll be dirt cheap then.

 

[Satangel]

When the NGP comes out i might pick up a pre-owned PSP

It'll be dirt cheap then.

They're dirt cheap already, you can pick 'em up at 50 dollars already.
I've thought about it, but I have hardly enough time to play all the DS games I want, so where would I find the time to play on my PSP?
Also, I doubt the online community of some games you might like will still function properly if you only start playing the game just now.

 

[Joe88]

When the NGP comes out i might pick up a pre-owned PSP

It'll be dirt cheap then.

They're dirt cheap already, you can pick 'em up at 50 dollars already.
I've thought about it, but I have hardly enough time to play all the DS games I want, so where would I find the time to play on my PSP?
Also, I doubt the online community of some games you might like will still function properly if you only start playing the game just now.

people are cheating in most of the online games anyway

 

[Nathan Drake]

First party developing for the PSP is guaranteed to shift entirely to the NGP. No developer is going to stick with the easy to pirate for system regardless of PSP model when they can move to the new fortress.

PSP owners might get some neat third party games, but that will be the extent of it.

 

[Satangel]

First party developing for the PSP is guaranteed to shift entirely to the NGP. No developer is going to stick with the easy to pirate for system regardless of PSP model when they can move to the new fortress.

PSP owners might get some neat third party games, but that will be the extent of it.

And homebrew won't die out so soon of course, emulators and shit make the PSP a very interesting platform to buy.

 

[Nathan Drake]

First party developing for the PSP is guaranteed to shift entirely to the NGP. No developer is going to stick with the easy to pirate for system regardless of PSP model when they can move to the new fortress.

PSP owners might get some neat third party games, but that will be the extent of it.

And homebrew won't die out so soon of course, emulators and shit make the PSP a very interesting platform to buy.

I think most emulators have come as far as they are really going to go on the PSP after so many years. Most homebrew developers are probably going to anticipate the NGP being cracked so they can get to work taking advantage of all the great hardware to start developing. Like I said, support won't die entirely, but it is going to be a bit of a ghost town.

 

[godreborn]

does sony even have a research and development team or do they just sit back and wait to see what nintendo does, copy it, and add better specs???

 

[Nathan Drake]

does sony even have a research and development team or do they just sit back and wait to see what nintendo does, copy it, and add better specs???

That's an ignorant response. If you had even seen the specs of the two systems, you would see they have little in common beyond the fact they both have visuals and can play games with sound.

 

[croagunk.master]

First party developing for the PSP is guaranteed to shift entirely to the NGP. No developer is going to stick with the easy to pirate for system regardless of PSP model when they can move to the new fortress.

PSP owners might get some neat third party games, but that will be the extent of it.

I think the exact opposite.

 

[godreborn]

does sony even have a research and development team or do they just sit back and wait to see what nintendo does, copy it, and add better specs???

That's an ignorant response. If you had even seen the specs of the two systems, you would see they have little in common beyond the fact they both have visuals and can play games with sound.

not really. nintendo does motion controls; sony does motion controls. nintendo does touch screen; sony does touch screen. if anyone should be sued, it should be sony as all they seem to do is steal ideas, change them a little, and pass them off as original. does sony really feel like getting raped by nintendo yet again? they must be masochists!

 

[Nathan Drake]

First party developing for the PSP is guaranteed to shift entirely to the NGP. No developer is going to stick with the easy to pirate for system regardless of PSP model when they can move to the new fortress.

PSP owners might get some neat third party games, but that will be the extent of it.
I think the exact opposite.


There is just no reason to stick around. Think about it. The PSP has been blown wide open to the point that people don't even have to actually hack it to pirate for it. To top it off, it isn't the DS level of hacking where only so many know about it. It is the PSP, where everybody who spends about six seconds googling about PSP's is going to find information about CFW and hacks.

Once these hacks become well known, most third party developers split leaving only Sony and I would guess about 10 or so third party developers judging by the number and frequency of releases. Once the NGP comes out, Sony itself has to shift entirely over. They will wrap up whatever they might have their hands in that is in development at the time of NGP launch, yes. They certainly won't be picking up any new projects where there is literally no more profit to be made.

Third party developers are always the last ones to develop on the PSP, and most are once again, going to move to the profitable system. There is little money to be made in making games for the PSP with the rampant hacking. Developers will have little reason to stick around except for the fact that they have enough money and are making enough elsewhere so supplement the basically worthless endeavor of PSP development.

QUOTE(godreborn @ Feb 13 2011, 01:56 AM)

does sony even have a research and development team or do they just sit back and wait to see what nintendo does, copy it, and add better specs???

That's an ignorant response. If you had even seen the specs of the two systems, you would see they have little in common beyond the fact they both have visuals and can play games with sound.

not really. nintendo does motion controls; sony does motion controls. nintendo does touch screen; sony does touch screen. if anyone should be sued, it should be sony as all they seem to do is steal ideas, change them a little, and pass them off as original. does sony really feel like getting raped by nintendo yet again? they must be masochists!

Motion controls and touch screens are included with most hand held devices anymore. Honestly, Sony is just getting with the times including these in their products. Unless you want to say Nintendo ripped off the first people to use said features too.

 

[Rock Raiyu]

does sony even have a research and development team or do they just sit back and wait to see what nintendo does, copy it, and add better specs???

That's an ignorant response. If you had even seen the specs of the two systems, you would see they have little in common beyond the fact they both have visuals and can play games with sound.

not really. nintendo does motion controls; sony does motion controls. nintendo does touch screen; sony does touch screen. if anyone should be sued, it should be sony as all they seem to do is steal ideas, change them a little, and pass them off as original. does sony really feel like getting raped by nintendo yet again? they must be masochists!

Motion controls and touch screens are included with most hand held devices anymore. Honestly, Sony is just getting with the times including these in their products. Unless you want to say Nintendo ripped off the first people to use said features too.

Pretty much. Sure Nintendo were the first to implement it into gaming, but they were not the first to use it considering Sony has not just a gaming division but also they do electronics. (Phones, laptops, GPS, etc.) And they do pretty much all their technology in-house (ie OLED, though Samsung released theirs first, they were working on it around the same time), so whose not to say they didn't get the ideas from that division?

And from godreborn' statement, that must mean that Nintendo ripped off Apple since Apple was the first to use a gyroscope and accelerometer with their games and apps. I guess Apple should sue them then.

 

[SPH73]

Motion controls and touch screens are included with most hand held devices anymore. Honestly, Sony is just getting with the times including these in their products. Unless you want to say Nintendo ripped off the first people to use said features too.

Nah.

Sony is just playing "follow the leader" like they always do. They're always ripping off the ideas of other companies because they're creatively bankrupt and have no genuine inspiration or genius of their own.

On a side note, it really seems like certain parties (not talking about people on this site) are desperate to keep the NGP in the spotlight. Every couple of days there is another article (like this one) which is really an excuse to mention Sony's new portable. The reason? Internet response to the new portable was lower than expected. A lot lower. Coming soon, another dozen fluff articles related to the NGP....

 

[ThatDudeWithTheFood]

Because the Playstation Eye never came out yeah Ninty totally made motion controls.

 

[J-Mirage]

Wait, Sony supports PSP? When they did that? I thinked Sony is a third party more for the PSP.