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Koller: PSP software decline to reverse by 2009

Posted Sep 24, 2008 at 1:08PM EST by Karl B.

Listed in: Interviews, News, Games Tags: interviews, John Koller, Olympus, PSP-3000, SCEA, Sony
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While John Koller, SCEA's director of hardware marketing, admits that PSP software support has been dwindling steadily for the past couple of years, he believes that recent surges in the handheld's hardware sales will help boost software sales soon.

“We’ve gone to every publisher and they’ve been noticing the hardware is on fire,” he told Edge Online. Apparently, Sony had conducted a tour of major publishers to "calibrate and educate" them on the PSP and what kind of software it needs. Here's a hint: it ain't ports.

“The recipe for success on the PSP resides simply in providing franchise games that are strong brand names like on consoles, but have unique gameplay on the system,” Koller said. “You cannot have ports."

Examples given were God of War: Chains of Olympus, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy 7, and the upcoming Midnight Club: LA Remix. According to Koller, these three games "are titles that have very strong brand names on console but are coming over with unique gameplay on the PSP.”

This is all well and good, but when will all this happen? Koller said we should be seeing "significant growth" by next year.

"We have a number of very strong franchise games on the docket that will be launching next year. We haven’t gone public with those, and many third-parties have not yet either because they’re concentrating on holiday, but we have a number of very strong titles coming.”

The upcoming release of the PSP-3000 should also factor into this, as hardware sales seem to be the driving force behind Sony's bid to curb software decline. There are a few PSP games worth mentioning (Valhalla Knights 2 and Star Ocean: First Departure come to mind. Yeah, I'm a bit of an RPG freak) that are scheduled for this Fall, so at least we'll have something to play while we're waiting for the fruits of Sony's labor.



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# ...TheLastGuitarHero 2008-09-24 14:40
Thank God he only made us wait a year for some games to start rolling out again.



/sarcasm

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# ...Silver-Tiger 2008-09-24 22:48
Nah, this is wrong! I don't want thousands of other ports from PS2 or other consoles. I want new, Innovative, brands.



Ports, Ports, Ports.... No wonder the PSP sales are so bad.

Notice that every second PSP had the either the name Portable or a Number at the end in his name?



I am not saying that DS games are better, but please, give us some new things instead of rehashing all PS2 games.

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# -APerson 2008-09-24 23:00
By 2009 I wouldn't care. I've not bought (and not pirated, unmodded PSP) a new PSP game in a year now. I'll probably give up on it soon and stick to DS only.

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# ...73N5H1 2008-09-25 01:19
Homebrew and multimedia capabilities are what's driving hardware sales...



Personally, I think that's why they went from the TA-88v3 (pandora proof) to the TA-90 (pandora hackable)



I think they may have realized the loss of sales without homebrew, because frankly, hardware sales is all they have going for them.

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# It will never happendark420bishop 2008-10-01 12:52
until they get a handle on the rampant PSP piracy, which they probably never will. No one is going to make a game that no one is going to buy.

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