Game Industry Figures Looking Forward To Killzone 2, Heavy Rain, Nothing PSP Specific

By Spencer . January 5, 2009 . 1:12pm

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has a little feature where they asked twenty two game industry figures a simple question “What are you looking forward to most on PlayStation in 2009?” David Reeves, President of SCEE, cites Heavy Rain and Killzone 2 as blockbuster titles to look forward to. Killzone 2 topped this list with seven mentions, but this number may be skewed since two of those people directly worked on Killzone 2. Heavy Rain, Resident Evil 5, and Street Fighter IV also got mentioned a handful of times.

What is strange about the list is the absence of PSP games. Shouldn’t one of the executives from the Sony side give a direct nod to at least one of their PSP projects? After all the PSP is part of the PlayStation family. Instead Reeves says, “PSP will continue to prosper and sell in incredible numbers, with some great games coming out, which will take full advantage of the new enhanced screen.” Shuhei Yoshida, President of Sony Worldwide Studios, says, “On PSP, we have new titles and innovations that will connect and expand the PlayStation experiences.” So instead of saying look out for Patapon 2 or Resistance: Retribution we get vague promises of PSP support from SCEE and Sony Worldwide Studios in 2009.

Images courtesy of Sony.

TAGS: Killzone 2, Playstation 3, PSP, Sony

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Lucy The purple AZN

Yuck!

Killzone 2: Another first-person shooter? Really? Do we really need another one? More shaved head Caucasian males with military guns. BORING!

Heavy Rain: Ultra boring realism. Generic Hollywood style videogame. We have reality around us. Why do we need it in a videogame?

Street Fighter IV: Ugly. It's basically Street Fighter II remade for OLD people. Dumbed down because they don't know how parry an attack. (ala Street Fighter III) The art style kills the game.

Resident Evil 5: RE4.5. Didn't I already play you on the Nintendo Gamecube and the Nintendo Wii? That's it.

Eddie

I don't own a psp yet, but I do know that it has great games. It's just the fact that 90% of those great games are not available in the United States.... Sony just needs to step it up. But first they need to get the ps3 running because right now its just crawling, while Xbox 360 is sprinting and the Nintendo Wii is flying.

JeremyR

Sony's been very vague about the PSP for almost a year. Promises of great games coming, but little substance. The only real notable title announced (Resistance Retribution) was at the expense of the Syphon Filter, and most the hype about R.R. seems to be how you can play it on your PS3...

scoolc

i have a psp but i rarely use it for games . i actually paid for 2 psp the original and the new one with daxter . Its good for music ( not for carrying but aux in your car ) , remote play..the only game i bought for it last year was buzz

cell989

The PSP and PS3 have great interaction between each other, and its a feature that Sony has not exploited quite successfully. The PSP has great games, just not enough marketing. Thats where the problem resides, both the PS3 and PSP have so many features that it takes mass marketing campaigns to really show all their capabilities. It takes a lot of explaining to expose everything the PSP is capable of, only the hardcore can really appreciate all the features, while the "casual" demographic only looks at the "games" that are shown on ads or infomercials.

Sony needs to find a way to thoroughly show all the features of the PSP and PS3, they arent just "games machines", they are so much more, but people dont know about it.

Stayfun

@ Lucy The purple AZN:

Needs more negativity.

JeremyR

I disagree, Sony needs to focus on the games, and stop touting the other aspects of their devices. Especially the PSP - it seems relegated to nothing more than a PS3 accessory these days. But even the PS3 is nothing more than a "movie download machine" according to the latest Sony commercials that have been running a lot of late.

Brilliant, stick the blu-ray drive in there driving up the cost so only a few people can afford it, then advertise the it as a "movie download machine.". (Not to mention that the 360 is better at movies, thanks to the Netflix deal)

David Macphail

You know....it's funny. The handful of PS3 games mentioned (K2, RE5, Heavy Rain and SF4)......that's more games than the Xbox 360 has in the whole of 2009, LOL!

Although, besides Heavy Rain, i couldn't care less for those games. I'm more looking forward to:

Final Fantasy XIII

White Knight Chronicles

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

New Ratchet & Clank

Gran Turismo 5 (Hopefully)

Assasin's Creed 2

National Geographic: Africa (Here's hoping this get's an EU release)