Editorial: Too Few PSP Games Coming
GameStooge’s Jordan Lund complains about the lack of PSP titles coming in 2009.
Excerpt: "I’m going to go off on a bit of a rant, because I’m a PSP fanboy. I bought my 1000 unit on day of release and kept it in a pristine 1.5 firmware status for all the homebrew stuff that’s out there, then bought a 2000 to keep up to date for the games. Now that that screen has gone wonky on me (weird vertical line down the center), I’m actually in the market for a 3rd PSP.
2008 might have been a great year for game sales on the PSP, but it was a terrible year for game releases. There were just 93 titles released on the PSP in all of 2008, fewer than any other machine, fewer than in any other year since the PSP came out. Even the PlayStation 2 had 151 games come out for it that year. The Nintendo DS, by comparison, had 347 in 2008…
…So, the best case scenario is the 13 games that are already out, the 28 that are dated, and the 33 that are "TBA", that’s still just potential total of 74 games this year. I fail to see how 2009 is going to be "the best year ever!" with those kinds of numbers."
