PSP needs a AAA title, says Sony

[parkermauney]

They need a video game that represents sony. Kind of like mario/link for nintendo, sonic for sega, etc.

[Milleniumas]

$#@! I have played more with my Game Boy Color in the past then with PSP now (which is basicly x100 better? ). I wrilly want to play some infrastructure games(so that's why I play now killzone). Loco Roco was the best PSP game! (I would gave MGS:PO the best place, but whitout the voice acting it's not the same, when you have to read all the text by yourself)

[mike_jmg]

Ultima Chocochu
You say GTA LCS it´s re-done

It is exactly like nintendo with all the mario kart games there is one for snes, one for 64, one for gba, one for DS, not surprisingly there will be one for wii

Maybe the thing is that most of us, come from the nintendo era and we like these games, why else do we need snes, gba and n64 emulators on the psp?

I like Gta Lcs too, it´s like the best gta ever
So i don´t get it why is re-done = bad

I do agree on the pokemon thing, pokemon games are really adictive, when i was younger I was fan of the series and i loved the Idea of having my own pokemon and train them (all that $#@!). But what nintendo did, was that you could only do all this on a gameboy, I was hoping they would release something like that for the N64 but it never happened, so i got a gameboy and a pokemon game.

The catch is that sony needs some killer game like pokemon and just put it on psp and nothing else, no ps2 or ps3 port like they did with GTA LCS and VCS, also what they´re planning to do with Tekken DR

[Welshboy]

I've got quite a few games for my psp......including all the GTA's, but the game I enjoyed the most (once i bought an analog add-onn for my psp) was street fighter alpha 3. I hated beat em ups before but i played it religiously....in fact I still do. I think its this unique selling point that allows gamers to get stuck in and "give a chance" to games that normally they would not touch that makes it, after all i find that most DS games are childish and bore me after 10 minutes. Mario Kart ds was not to distant from the snes version and i found that i could nail races in an instant which really annoyed me. A game on the PSP is always a new challenge which i really appreciate. I thoroughly enjoyed each GTA even though they were the same cities because they were completely different story lines, not the same races over and over again like in Mario Kart.

[Ultima Chocochu]

They need a video game that represents sony. Kind of like mario/link for nintendo, sonic for sega, etc.

Sony's never really had that
When they sort of had, they left Sony after awhile
(Spyro/Crash are examples)
At the moment I'd say Ratchet and Clank, and Jak are slightly PlayStation icons
Just PlayStation USED to have sooo many exclusives it used to not matter
I also don't think Sony wants to make another Mario, meaning I don't think Sony want's a single character to represent it like every other console has.

[Broadus]

Y'know, Sony makes bad PSP sales because no new PSP plays homebrew and they're all very anti-homebrew, so people that want to play homebrew must get an old PSP (as in not buy a new one, so that Sony gets no money), and PSPs capable of homebrew are also capable of pirating PSP games, so nobody wants to spend money on making a good game if it's just going to get pirated. Basically, Sony's not making money from PSP sales and nobody's making any money from game sales.

I can't be the only person who knows all that.

Also, ports aren't bad. It's just that the only games that get ports are games that aren't very fun anymore, weren't very fun when they were new and original, or if it's a port of a good game, the port is skewered to such a level that it's no longer good.

[Lodis]

Sony had a really good opportunity to create a ''killer game'' with Metal Gear Solid. Instead they created something that could have been so much better. The controls were poor, the camera angels sucked, the AI were dumb and everyone knew it wasn't a real Metal Gear Solid game.

I think the problem is if they did create a ''real'' Metal Gear Solid game then it would just be like a port of the PS1 version so what they need is a totally original title I guess.

Having said all of that, what I am looking forward to most on my Psp is a full speed N64 emulator.

[grin.ch]

JUST RELEASE GRAN TURISMO ALREADY!!!!! That was supposed to be a damn launch title!

[hd_]

Lots of good and bad points have been made, this is my opinion:

The PSP does have good games, I do enjoy playing several PSP games, and I think that if you take out the big titles from the DS (zelda, pokemon and possibly others)- the PSP simply owns the DS. But the DS does have the zelda and pokemon games, people love zelda and pokemon, so much so that they would buy the console simply for those games. There are no PSP games that shine like that, and that is why the PSP can't compete against the DS at this point in time.

No, MGS, SOCOM, Daxter, Ratchet etc. do not make you want to go out and buy the console- especially if you already own the games for PS2 (even though they aren't ports). Monster hunter might be a game like that, but no online.. STUPID!

Sony games just don't have the same atmosphere that nintendo games have. They are more single player orientated than multiplayer orientated- there just isn't nearly as much support for multiplayer in sony games. Even if every game had multiplayer support, my opinion would be the same. This is because the multiplayer is usually just tacked on to the game, and not a core feature, or fully thought through and such.


Beyond this point is purely rant- however if you are Sony, please read on:

The only way Sony can recover from this point is if they pull a donkey out of the hat. They need something big, already popular (eg: Naruto) and they need it to be the best thing ever. So if they could buy the rights to Naruto, or if they make their own killer series,eg:
Imagine, shinobida but naruto style and more story and stats based system, wide land navigation like GTA- but to make sure that the game isn't just a lame repeat of other Naruto games, and so that they can do a similar release date in America and Japan, they could make it so that it doesn't focus on the current main characters of Naruto, including Naruto himself, and just make up another story in the Naruto world {drool}.

I even have this awesome idea (in my opinion :P) where you could be a ninja from a clan of ninjas who can't use and taijutsu (melee combat), but are especially skilled at summoning ninjutsu. You can see where I am going with this- you could have a ninja monster raising game, where you can 'realistically' (in accordance to the rules and regulations of magical realms) store monsters and call on them for battle or whichever purposes. Pokemon does this in like every iteration of their game, so don't say 'that's stupid'- you could just have this story set several years after the events of Naruto (exactly like in Yu-Gi-Oh GX actually).



Wow, I went off track their, but damnit- Sony, level 5, level 100 or whoever takes care of the super Sony games, if you are out there, go and make this game! PSP ONLY YOU MORONS >.< ONLINE BATTLES, DON'T BE STINGY.

edit:
Oh great, the xbox360 is getting Naruto: Rise of a Ninja, and it looks awesome. Oh well, it wouldn't have worked out so well using naruto anyway since it is already on multiple platforms. Sony needs to make something cool whose home is PSP and maybe, just maybe will go on vacation to the land of PS3- but always remaining on PSP#.

[HumanIce]

I haven't found a game worth playing since loco roco.

should I go and buy that game? since I loved Tekken DR, and played MGS PO & tomb rider legends to end