Ubisoft: Just kidding, we LOVE the PSP!

It was a bittersweet day for the PSP as Ubisoft pledged 12 upcoming titles for the portable, while Ready at Dawn ceased development and shipped their dev kits back to Sony.

Ubisoft did an about face this week with its opinion of the PSP, as a spokesperson "clarified" the company's stance on the portable and said it would still "strongly supports" it with 12 upcoming games.

The revelation came less than one week after Ubisoft's UK rep, Ron Cooper, implied that Sony should scrap the current PSP strategy and start over. At the center of his argument was the belief that the PSP lacked games.

"By way of further clarifying some recent statements made in the press, Ubisoft wants to reaffirm that it strongly supports the PSP, which holds a unique place in the market, addressing dedicated gamers and offering unprecedented power in a portable console," the spokesperson told GameIndustry.biz.

Even with the Ubisoft clarification, the dearth of quality PSP software has still claimed at least one victim. In related PSP news, Ready at Dawn--previously a strong supporter of the PSP platform--has officially shuttered development on the portable so it can focus exclusively on the Wii.

Ready at Dawn (Chains of Olympus) even went so far as to post a picture of their PSP dev kits packed up on boxes, ready to be shipped back to Sony.

The news was hardly a surprise, as RaD developers said this would happen when Chains of Olympus went gold in Japan more than a month ago.

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Scrotanicus

Ubisoft , we are all waiting for a PSP version of that " Halo 3 Killer" HAZE! LMAO, HAZE sropped in price in every retail store. 2 weeks after release, Gamestop, dropped the price to $39.99!

ticl

wulfshelmut Posted at: 06/10/08 at 10:40 AM PST The psp has always seemed to lack game to me, just like the ps3 does. It seems like sony has dropped the ball on its systems. They want the psp to be a portable media device, But there already portable media devices that are 100X better. The ps3 is the same way sony wants it to be a PC, BR media center and there already devices that that do those things 100X better as well. The sony line attracts gamers and sony has no games
over 300 games for the ps3. how come 360morons look so fuucking stupid.lol

ticl

its funny how many sites dropped the 360because of garbage games and system. google -quite a few. nothing smaller than a 360 owners brain

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