We've heard of buyer's remorse. Even seller's remorse. But
mailer's remorse? That could be afflicting developer
Ready at Dawn, as the company jokes that it might have been too hasty when it turned its back on Sony's portable and marked all of its PSP dev kits '
return to sender.' The company announced in June that it was "officially done with PSP development," but after seeing both
Daxter and
God of War: Chains of Olympus among the
top 5 PSP games sold on Amazon last week, the studio is cheekily patting its own back.
"Maybe we should reconsider this whole 'no more PSP games' thing because we seem to be pretty good at it," reads a post on
Ready at Dawn's blog. We're inclined to agree, even if it is in jest. With a few more studios like you around, maybe the PSP wouldn't
need a life raft to stay afloat.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Ciaran @ Dec 16th 2008 10:16AM
Well that's obvious, if the games you make do good on that platform, why stop?
aj @ Dec 16th 2008 10:24AM
....I will bet good money that Ready At Dawn will only make God of War and Daxter sequels/prequels/spinoffs for as long as the PSP exists.
required @ Dec 16th 2008 12:26PM
I think you are confusing these developers with Nintendo and Mario.
naxe @ Dec 16th 2008 5:27PM
ZING!!!!!
Duke @ Dec 16th 2008 10:25AM
PSP needs you and you have a responsibility to the world to develop for it. Now, go win one for the Gipper boys!
John @ Dec 16th 2008 10:28AM
Didnt' like dexter, but the PSP GOW was the only one of those games I liked
Mr Khan @ Dec 16th 2008 10:49AM
It's comparative advantage at its finest. Why work on DS, Wii, or the HD Set when you are clearly the top dog where you are?
Now, if Ready at Dawn were an expanding company, certainly they would want to fry bigger fish, but as they are, they can prosper on PSP
Kspraydad @ Dec 16th 2008 10:57AM
They already have their ENGINE 3.0 working on X and PS3 so um ... no, they are not going back to PSP imo. They are however, licensing their ENGINE 2.0 for PSP.
Lee @ Dec 16th 2008 11:12AM
Never liked their PSP games but we'll see what else they can do. Just no more ports or sequels yea?
Who'm I kidding :(
required @ Dec 16th 2008 12:24PM
The ports gripe is a naive if not dishonest one. The PSP has a lot of original titles in fact one could easily say more critically acclaimed ones than the DS has.
http://www.metacritic.com/games/psp/alpha/
slycooper_rocker (lorddshadow the amazing) [anti-panda death squadron force five] @ Dec 16th 2008 5:58PM
sly cooper next? please? i'll be your best...customer!
Gurbinder @ Dec 18th 2008 4:56PM
And an gundam spinoff in english