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Ready at Dawn: PSP was doomed from the start |
Listed in: PSP Tags: god of war, psp go, Ready At Dawn, Ru Weerasuriya
It's not surprising to hear other developers bashing down the PSP. But when it comes straight from a premier PSP development studio head like Ru Weerasuriya of Ready at Dawn, it's certainly a different story.
Speaking in the latest issue of Edge, the God of War developer and Ready at Dawn co-founder said the PSP was destined to fail from day one.
"It was the first portable that Sony released - it's a trial by fire," Weerasuriya said. "It's a good platform and you can make amazing things on it. I think that we've tried as much as possible to prove that in the last seven years.
"But it was doomed from the beginning, that's its biggest problem," he said openly.
"It was doomed from the very get-go. There are some things which aren't conductive to calling it a true portable gaming platform and calling it a connective platform, although it has wi-fi. There's so many things that publishers and the manufacturer and Sony dropped the ball on - it's natural, it's the first one," he went on to add.
When quizzed about the long-rumored PSP successor, Weerasuriya simply said, "that hope that you can have is that they learn from that experience when they make the next one, and that they solve the issues with the PSP and the PSP Go - and also that they learn from what the others are doing."
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The original models were marketed as game systems/media devices, but they were too big for a media player, and you wouldn't haul it around a lot because the battery life wasn't so great and you'd have to wrap it in something or buy a screen guard.
The Go was just a mistake. Not only is there not enough support for it, but there's no way to transfer your UMD games (like Sony had originally intended) to it without making "unlicensed" copies. Combine that with an even higher price-point and you've got yourself a sure-fired loser on your hands.
Sometimes I think the only reason Sony really gives a damn about it at all is because Monster Hunter moves huge numbers of systems in Japan, and they need to keep it alive to drum-up hype for PSP2, if that ever happens
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Doomed + On Top = lolwut
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But a quite a few "worth owning" PSP games have came out recently and more come out in the near future.
The only people who say the PSP is a shitty system are fanboy douchebags who rant about how much of a piece of crap the system is yet you have an external hard drive full of games from that very system.
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P.I.R.A.C.Y.
You obviously don't understand the difference between the 2 so i've spelled it out for you.
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I like the graphics, but improvement would be nice
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The PSP2 will be Flash memory only, I think with MMS
But I hope they bring back some type of UMD since you can sell or trade them
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I agree on bluray though
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The only reason I kept my PSP was for hacking and already did that a couple months afterwards in 07.
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Advance Wars games- 80 hours each*2 (160)
Pokemon games- 150 hours each*3 (450)
Infinite Space - 40 hours
Castlevania games- 25 hours*3 (75)
Final Fantasy games- 30-60 hours*4 (180)
(seperate) FF Tactics A2- 300 hours
Chinatown Wars- 40 hours
Kirby- 20 hours*2 (40)
Yea know I totally get what you mean about DS games being short and casual.
And those are just the games in my small collection.
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You're not the average gamer, so please don't use your case as an example of average.
If I were to do that, my library of PSP games, which exceeds many people's libraries of normal, console games, is the average baseline and everybody has that lawlers.
So in that case, the average PSP owner would own approximately 30 UMD Games, 10 UMD Movies, 5-10 PSN PS1 games and 10 PSN PSP Games. If you average out each games cost, which, since we're in the business of being ridiculous, is 25 per PSP Game, 10 per PSP UMD Movie, and 5 bucks per PS1 PSP game, then we're looking at, approximately, $1125-1150 per system sold.
Add that to the fact that i own (2) release PSPs and 1 PSP 3000, MGS Edition, then you're looking at a grand total of.
Drum roll.
1825-1850 per person spent on the PSP.
In my similar to yours conclusion, however many people have bought PSPs will spend that much money in their psp gaming lifetime, up to this point.
Most successful console ever, in that case, if we look at per person ratios.
I have a DS, a lite to be exact. I play Korg DS-10 on it. Since my case is Law, then the money moved there is 70 (for ds Lite)and 30 ( for game)
100 dollars.
I Can continue on to consoles. I have 4 Wii games, 20 360 games and 40-50 ps3 games. I only get to play 1 weekend a month though, so it's depressing.
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Now that's weird.
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No shit padna!
Dont take it personal IMO.
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Then some of my favorite games on the system. Wild ARMs XF, Dracula X Chronicles, Star Ocean 1 and 2, Brave Story, Prinny Can I Really Be the Hero, Gundam Battle Universe, and Gundam vs Gundam Next Plus.
That doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of how many great games are on the system. In the future my favorite game Tactics Ogre Let Us Cling Together is getting a port/remake. Prinny 2 and Ys 1 and 2 Chronicle are must haves.
I've still yet to play the God Eater Burst demo. Heard it's good so may pick that up.
But hey. With the PSP it really looks like most developers are putting the time into developing a good game. What has the DS had lately that's been any good? Lufia? That's really all I can think of.
I own a PS3, DS, and PSP for this gen. Used to own a 360 but got rid of it. The PSP has came out with the most games that are worth owning, the DS has came out with quite a bit, and the PS360 between both consoles together had the least. There are some great games on the PS360 but I've been using my PS3 to either play games I already own for the system and I'm finishing again or to play my PSX and PS2 games. Consoles this gen suck(most games on them do atleast but there are the few really good ones that come out each year.)
If anything people should bash the PS360 and especially the Wii for having garbage almost continuously. The PSP has the best games this gen by far. The DS is close behind but hasn't been getting much for awhile now.
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The Advance Wars series, nothing like that on PSP.
I'm even still playing the old classics like Mario Kart, New Mario and Canvas Curse. And of course each Pokemon game is a 150 hour timesink.
I have more games on the PSP but its only been in the last couple of years that we've had the killer titles.
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I reckon because all the tricks have been figured out to really squeeze the most out of the hardware.
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But I guess the 3ds is forcing that issue is or aint.
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That and Sony have an attitude of not bothering with it.
Years have passed since the iPhone has been out. Beyond some ridiculous features (radio?!) they added virtually nothing to the PSPs menu. Nothing to pull people in and keep it one step ahead of competition. Where are trohpies, where are our friends lists, where are our highscore boards on all games?
We need more games on PSN. We need better games. We need those disposable games like the Minis to be at disposable prices.
I don't agree that it was doomed from the start but I do believe Sony did nothing to push it.
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Sony need to unplug their head from their corporate ass and actually listen to respected people like this.
By the time they unveil their PSP 2 they will be way way behind Nintendo, and outside of Japan few people will care
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I think he is full of crap.
The only problem with the PSP is how Sony USA has handled it.
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I love them!
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