Sony Europe's president admits PSP needs more games
But also predicts boom of Japanese developed titles
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe president David Reeves has admitted PSP needs more games to be released for it here in the west.
Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz at a recent PlayStation Day, Reeves said: "Hand on heart, would we like more PSP games? Yes, we would. We really would."
Despite this, he did predict a boom in Japanese developed titles from studios keen to follow the success of Capcom's Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G, which has shipped over 2 million units in under two months in the region.
"We've seen in the last six months that because of the success of the PSP in Japan many Japanese developers have got some absolutely phenomenal games. They're not Monster Hunter 2G or things like that, but they are in development and we'll see them over here," Reeves promises.
However, despite the PSP's huge sales in Japan this year - over 1.6 million units have been sold and the console continues to top the hardware charts - a recent European PlayStation Day showcased just two PSP titles - echochrome and Buzz! Quiz Master.
Publisher support for the console in Europe continues to disappoint. Big cross-platform titles such as Tomb Raider: Underworld and Lord of the Rings: Conquest currently aren't coming to the console and it continues to dwindle far behind DS in terms of exclusives - just one example is the just-revealed DS exclusive Tony Hawk's game from Activision, but companies such as EA also seem to regularly be choosing to release exclusive games for DS and not PSP.
If Sony is going to gain ground in Europe it needs those big games - a fact the company at least sounds aware of. We just hope forthcoming games such as echochrome and Buzz sell well enough that other publishers are persuaded to follow suit with more titles for the console.
