Developers nervous about PSP?

[Viper]

As Sony gets ready to unveil the PSP at E3 next week, Wall Street Journal has published an article on how some software companies are having doubts. Heralded as the "21st Century Walkman", Sony's PSP will combine the ability to play video games with movies and digital audio. However, the planned global launch this winter has already suffered a setback, with US and European launches being pushed back into early 2005.

Among the general complaints are:
- Many developers haven't received enough information for a proper launch.
- At the end of April, some developers had still not received dev kits, or final specifications for the machine.
- Many companies are worried about confusion in the marketing of a product that plays movies as well as games.

Square-Enix's Michihiro Sasaki commented:
- "We still don't know what Sony are trying to achieve with this product - that's the problem."
- "Before we prepare anything, we'd like to know more about the PSP business model."

Konami's Kazumi Kitakami said:
- "It would have been better if PSP were just a game machine."
- "They are foolish to try and build a market for watching movies any time, any place. Watching movies requires concentration."
- He fears the Japanese release date may also be delayed.

Source: Wall Street Journal/Japan. http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articl...7/news035.html


Couple the above with reports of battery life being only 2.5 hours for most games and very high price tag and Sony may find themselves in a more uphill battle with Nintendo than they thought.

[Blaksmoke]

The PSP will bomb.

Maybe I should put that in my sig?

[Rabunis]

Being excited about this announcement makes me realize just how much of a fanboy I am.

[r33hash]

Wow......Viper digs the dirt once again. How old are those quotes taken from those people? Are the recent enough to even be valid? I have faith, whether the fanboy on this site do or not.

[Michael Bluth]

The software looks absolutely fantastic, more advanced than the DS without a doubt. Battery life and price will be a concern of mine, however.

[Viper]

Taken from Last week and E3.

[Bloodman]

YAY, *chant*DS DS DS DS DS *unchant*

[Rabunis]

Yeah where did this rumor of 2.5 hours of battery life come from? Would a company be stupid enough to release a product with such a low battery life? The answers to these and more questions on the nest episode of Team Donkey Punch

[Viper]

check IGN for the battery life comment.

[Nights]

Hmmm

Funny...They said the same thing about the PS2 cause it was a DVD player as well as a console.

Hmm and we all know that bombed...lol

[fishbonetaher]

crosses finger and wishes that the PSP WILL BOMB (sorry but i really want it to bomb, i know its mean, but what can i say!!!)

[Viper]

Hmmm

Funny...They said the same thing about the PS2 cause it was a DVD player as well as a console.

Hmm and we all know that bombed...lol

[sarcasm]You mean Sony never sent them Dev kits and the battery life of the PS1 was only 2.5 hours??!!??[/sarcasm]



Notice how only 2 games even have screen shots?

[Nights]

Sony announced there are currently 100 third party developers for PSP worldwide, include 34 from Japan, 24 from US, 23 from Europe and 19 from Korea.

Yah, that sounds really skeptical... *cough*

Notice I have posted 4 game screenshots.
LOL

Click here to see the man games announced for the PSP (way more than the ds)
After seeing that, I highly dought it viper.

[Viper]

Sony announced there are currently 100 third party developers for PSP worldwide, include 34 from Japan, 24 from US, 23 from Europe and 19 from Korea.

Yah, that sounds really skeptical... *cough*

Notice I have posted 4 game screenshots.
LOL

Because they signed up for them all...including the next xbox. Lots of developers buy kits for all (to see which sells most)... It doesn't mean that they will do anything for it.

Squares/Enix/Namco all had sega saturn dev. kits. Did we see any Final Fantasy/Dragon Quest/Tekken on it?

Squares had N64 Dev kits too.
They now have Xbox Dev kits.

The list continues.

Pwned to the Nth degree.

[Nights]

Hmm announced games the second list all being shown at E3.. You lost it viper..Just click on the forum.

Yah but I added the official titles the developers have announced. Which is different, because the developers are already in production from them. Where's the list of DS ones? hmmmm...

[Viper]

Here is a short list of a few. All in development, many with screens.



Activision: Spiderman 2
Atari: Project TBA
Bandai: One Piece, other games TBA
Banpresto: Dragon Ball Z
Capcom: Megaman Battle Network, Viewtiful Joe DS, Gyakuten Saiban
Electronic Arts: Need for Speed
From Software Project TBA
Hudson: Bomberman, other projects TBA
Koei: Dynasty Warriors
Konami: Frogger 2005, Yu-Gi-Oh: Nightmare Troubadour
Majesco: Project TBA
Namco: Mr. Driller, TBA RPG
Sega: Project Rub
Square Enix: Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, Egg Monster Hero, Dragon Quest Monsters
Tecmo: Monster Rancher
THQ: Spongebob Squarepants
Ubisoft: Rayman
Vivendi: Project TBA


By the way....what does Square-Enix have coming for PSP again?

[Nights]

Oh yah. I have games with screens in a forum that aren't listed..

Go figure... GUYS click on this
See the true list

[Viper]

That made no sense.

What?

[Blaksmoke]

The DS and PSP have virtually the same amount of developers (more than 100 each), and besides, nobody cares about half those games anyhow.

[majik ninja]

The PSP will get crush by the Nintendo DS....