Ex-SCEE employee calls out PSP, says iPhone SDK 'is better'

Yeah. Shocker.

You missed the whole point -- reread the article.

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This is no surprise. iPhone runs on the same OS as Macintoshes, so emulation/simulation is far easier, and it has memory management

PSP runs on it's own OS so development is more difficult without a PSP dev kit since you must test on an actual PSP. It's also not a fully-fleshed out OS like OSX.

On the other hand, PSPs OS is optimized for games and it much better at it.
Mobile OSX however is a power hungry waste of power when it comes to games

@Extinction: Plus, the PSP dev kit is from SONY, who are singularly notorious for being down-right developer hostile. Something doesn't work? Tough. Need help with the SDK? Pay someone else to show you how. Tools are constantly shoddy and broken? Too bad. Tools we said would be available 6 months ago don't exist yet, and we're 2 months from hardware launch? Go suck an egg.

I'd be surprised if anyone anywhere had a story about how a sony dev kit was better than *any other* dev kit, period.

popshots http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czPyf14Jrf8

What the hell does functionality have to do with the SDK? Guy is saying the Software Development Kit is better for the iPhone, not that the iPhone itself has many more features.

You missed the whole point -- reread the article.

@infamous

2 things:

1) off topic....... (just as D dog mentioned)

2) PSP has Skype already and I really don't think IM would be necessary on PSP, it would be too tedious...

Yeah, let's back to the shitty anti-Nintendo news.

To be honest, I have yet to see a good iPhone bash around here...

good psp news on an anti-psp post? great

Yea, I'm sure Sony is totally not wishing they had those almost one billion app sales because their line up right now is totally filled to the brim and system sales in the states are higher than ever before!


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Phone or not, you like it or not, there's hundreds of games for it, and unlike cell phones, there are dozens that are worth buying an iPhone/iTouch for. Get used to it. Just because you don't see it at Gamestop, doesn't mean it's not a gaming platform. Then again.. the fact that you don't need to EVER go to Gamestop for anything iPhone related is actually a plus >_>.

Funny you should mention that, since Sony purchased SN Systems, makers of the ProDG development tools that have been standard for Sony console development for years, back in 2005.

So, they *already did that*. What's your next idea?

"Cause weall know the PSP has NO games" lol

Gotta love the PS Nation Podcast

FACT!!

The PSP has no games = joke

Yeah I'd like 100's, maybe 1000's, of shitty PSP games made by nobodies.

yea....he knows that...lol

His "parting shot" isn't negative, he's just saying Sony needs to improve their SDK. I don't think he would admit that if he was still working under Playstation.

I dont think people understand that tho. The PSP is ESSENTIALLY a PS2 thats been cut of a few features.....

Developing for PSP is nothing like developing for PS2 though.

PSP is the easiest system to develop for since the PS1. It's many times easier than even GBC, GBA and DS.

thank god the joystiqers don't go right out and say what you just said

While I do agree the PSP is a little lackluster at times but taking a phone over a game console? You sir need to leave this place and take your comments to Engadget. They'll love you over there, where your comment belongs.

ooooh we all know that playing Games with touching the screen and shaking the phone is whats hot in the streets right now. Who CARES if it can play your PS1 games.....[/sarcasm]

well if you wanted a phone than I would have done the same thing but I am a gamer and I just enjoy too much playing crash and twisted metal 2 on the go.

A few things...

Anticrawl: I don't consider the PSP a game 'console.' 'Console' is a term I reserve for home devices like the PS3, the 360, the Wii... The PSP is a handheld, a powerful platform, but your use of the term 'console' here is covering too much ground in your argument when you say 'take a phone over a game console.' Your comment reads like you think someone is opting to take a RAZR over a 360 for gaming. Anyway, I like the PSP but it isn't as cost-effective, useful, or portable as my iPhone for me. So I too have chosen take my iPhone over my PSP, every day as I leave the house without the PSP.

ChrisD.: Get over it, man, there's no reason to hate on the iPhone software so hard. Your earlier post essentially boils down to you thinking a more difficult SDK will keep the PSP software better, which is crazy talk. That hasn't kept junk from showing up on the door of many a game device, and as with before, the consumer will have to pay attention to what's being presented to them. The popularity of the iPhone platform (and ease of development) has devs of all sorts making games, some 'tilt' ones that you paint as bad, but also a lot of good games that are coming out more often, are cheaper, and are easier to get than anything the PSP is doing right now.

Is it really hurting the PSP? Well, if it is, that's sort of what the Ex-SCEE employee is getting at: it's Sony's fault if it is, not the public that is strengthening the iPhone platform by getting behind it.

It's people like you that give Apple fans, errr, gaming fans, errr, potheads bad names.

Nobody's really winning anybody over... Sony's not getting serious about competing, Apple and NIntendo aren't serious about having quality product on their platforms.

Being an iPod Touch owner as well as a PSP owner, I use them for completely different gaming purposes. Sony lacks a good deal of indie art titles and puzzlers on their handheld, Apple lacks the deeper, more traditional gameplay experience. Can't play Bejeweled 2 or Tap Tap Revenge on the PSP, and can't play Disgaea or Phantasy Star Portable on the Touch.

That being said, the Touch does consume more of my gaming time than I'd like to admit...