Sony Pursuing Ready at Dawn for More PSP Projects
Sony has been putting a greater emphasis on the PSP of late, with plans to bring some of its top properties such as LittleBigPlanet, MotorStorm and more to the portable. Two of Sony's top PSP games to date – Daxter and God of War: Chains of Olympus – were developed by Ready at Dawn, a studio that has previously said it doesn't want to work on PSP anymore. Although Ready at Dawn has been wavering on that stance of late, Sony certainly would love nothing more than to get the talented folks at Ready at Dawn back into PSP development. And fans no doubt would be thrilled if they could play another portable God of War.
While speaking to SCEA's John Koller about the rumored UMD-less PSP2, Kotaku also queried the director of hardware marketing about Ready at Dawn. Koller acknowledged that Ready at Dawn is a "fantastic developer" and he said that "conversations with them continue," adding, "don't give up on Ready at Dawn yet."
Koller also noted that the release of the PSP-2000 model helped to bring some developers back to PSP after many had abandoned the portable in 2006. "In mid 2006 the hardware had seen a bit of a bottoming out, a lot of publishers decided to reallocate their resources," he admitted. "In 2007 the PSP-2000 came out and we saw a big increase in sales. When we met with developers in 2008 they said, 'How can we get back into the PSP?'"
After meeting with those developers last year, now in 2009 we'll finally start seeing the results with more third-party support, Koller believes.
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