They’ve got to do something amazing with PSP2 ”pretty quickly” or risk losing it all to Nintendo, because their rival ”always” gets it right.
”It’s an exciting time and you could possibly have two handhelds coming out within months or a year of each other,” Reeves told GamesIndustry.biz in an interview.
”I’d like to the think it would be for the publishers and developers and consumers,” he replied, asked if Sony is likely to release a PSP2 within 12 months.
”Sony tried to make the transition with PSPgo, I think that changed some consumers attitudes, but they need to come back with something on PSP pretty quickly to stay in the game because Nintendo are shit hot at getting these things right.”
”And they always get these things right.” Sony has yet to acknowledge a second full iteration of the PSP exists, though rumours point to new fancy features like a touch screen interface. PSPgo, the UMD-less and digital only handheld, has been a big failure at retail. ”It was hard and it was very, very expensive,” said Reeves. ”Now they’re offering ten games and they have to try and revive it.”
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