Third parties not required to release PSPgames on PlayStation Store

[wraggster]

What do Undead Knights, Naruto Shippuden: Legends: Akatsuki Rising, NBA 2K10, Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes and Cars: Race O Rama have in common? All of these are PSP games released on UMD after the PSP Go's October 1 launch -- and all are currently without a digital equivalent. Owners of the Go system are unable to play these games because they simply aren't available on the PlayStation Store.

Once again, Sony's hands-off approach to the PlayStation Network means third parties are responsible for getting their content on both UMD and the PlayStation Store. "It's up to individual third parties to decide if and when to publish their UMD releases on PSN. Most, if not all, are on board, as this is a revenue opportunity for them," we were told by Eric Lempel, SCEA's director of PlayStation Network operations. Namco, the one publisher that returned our request for comment, noted specifically that "there are currently no plans to release Akatsuki Rising on PSN right now," despite its October 6 release on UMD.

We highly encourage Sony to make simultaneous digital releases of PSP games a requirement for publishers, not merely a suggestion. The company previously issued a mandate for PS3 games to include trophies in 2009 -- a similar policy must be enforced on the PSP. Without it, there's no guarantee that all future PSP games will ever be playable on the PSP Go.

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/10/16/th...playstation-s/

[Zack]

This is absurd.

There should be a strict policy in place by Sony that requires third party developers to release both on UMD and Digital download.

The fact that this isn't in place is just insane.

What are Sony thinking??? What kind of marketing strategy is this?? Basically they are saying : "Buy a PSPGo - Warning : Possibility that not all games released will be able to be downloaded via PSN".

Madness.

[osgeld]

lame

you pay more, get less and now you dont even have the same selection of software

:thumbup:
good goin sega

[jamotto]

The PSP Go is just a warm up for what the PSP 2 will be. It allows developers a glimpse of what will be the future and to prepare for it, at the expense of Sony's customers.

[havoc_012]

Even Dev's aren't supporting the PSP Go.

[darkriku2000]

They'd probably be more willing if sony didn't charge $00.16 on every 1 gb that gets downloaded, there was an article about it somewhere, but I can't find it right now, I might dig it up later.

[pibs]

Sony is really dropping the ball with this one. The PSP Go! offers some pretty neat new features but seriously the price alone is making it difficult to consider it. 16GB is not much, it can easily get filled with purchasing a few digital games. Oh wait but then they can introduce the new 32GB Go!

[Zack]

Sony is really dropping the ball with this one. The PSP Go! offers some pretty neat new features but seriously the price alone is making it difficult to consider it. 16GB is not much, it can easily get filled with purchasing a few digital games. Oh wait but then they can introduce the new 32GB Go!

You could always grab a 16GB M2 card from ebay