EA Goes Cold on PSP

[wraggster]

Via Nextgen

EA's head of development David Gardner has warned Sony to pick up its act in the handheld war against Nintendo DS.
The firm's VP and COO of worldwide studios told UK trade paper MCV, "I don't think Sony can afford to sit back. They still have things they can do with the price and performance of the machine, things that they need to address."

EA says it has shifted its handheld priorities since DS began pulling away from PSP. "There's no doubt that EA has historically bet more on PSP," said Garner. "I think we were excited by the technology, but the consumers have proven that actually what they want is fun.

"We must never forget that what we need to focus on is fun and so EA is putting more effort behind DS games, and creative ones that really take advantage of the hardware.

[Video_freak]

nooooooooooooo. see this is what happens when you dont let us play your UMD's on 1.5 sony...

[The_Ultimate_Eggman]

$ONY take note EA killed the dreammcast by not doing fifa on it if u loose this big boy i wouldnt fancy your chances.

[QueadlunnRau]

Sounds to me like a Football fan who swares he is a fan of one team, but then changes when he finds another team is winning more games.

Traitor.

[dejkirkby]

Could this be the first nail in the PSP's coffin, perhaps?

[Apoklepz]

Serves Sony right...That's what they get for being way too pushy with the scurity update crap, and spending little or no time at all to increase the capabilities of their harware and accesories....If I remember right, the only revolutionary PSP accesories have come from third party people in the hacking scene, like PSP2TV, the GPS thing that is being worked on, and all other homebrew that has really helped bring out the true potential of the PSP.

Where're all those awesome looking add-ons that you've been showing around all this time Sony, like the Keyboard, Camara, phone device,etc....huh?

Not to mention...the frickin PSX emulator that you've been promissing for months now...We all saw it play Ridge Racer, so release it already!

Yeah...keep pushing those updates, it's really the most profitable and smartest thing to do.

[Hungry Horace]

it's got nothing to do with EA's policy of stale re-hashes of old games then has it?

give me Sensible World of Soccer anyday!


my 1.5 psp does everything i want it to.... although the amiga emualtor needs developing, i wouldnt care if it became an abandoned machine, so long as the homebrew keeps it going!

[blackwolf]

this does not look good... donly need to shape up. they need to lounch a campain promoting the psp better.

[HellsPlumber]

I think this could be a GOOD thing.It could seriously harm the PSP and sony if EA quits on them so sony are bound improve and maybe even stop games NEEDING updates hopefuly give everyone homebrew to increase PSP sales.
Fingers crossed

[manwthhurricanes]

thats pretty cool