PSP owners have long complained that their handheld was Sony's unloved electronic progeny, but now they have confirmation, direct from Sony senior vice president Ray Maguire.
The PSP "was slightly under-supported, mainly because a lot of the energy was going into stuff we're doing for PlayStation 3," Maguire recently told GamesIndustry.biz. "There was an added complication in that the UMD model wasn't brilliant for third parties, either."
As evidenced by the recent announcement of LittleBigPlanet and Rock Band ports for the handheld however, Sony's faith in the little black portable has grown.
"I think as the installed base has grown -- we're now at 50
million globally -- the PSP has become one of the best-selling formats ever, and I think people are seeing that they need to get back into it," Maguire adds.
"I think it's one of those formats which has just, almost silently, grown and grown and grown. Now people are looking at 3
million installed base in the UK, and seeing it's a healthy number -- that they can sell product against that."
If the PSP has topped 50 million globally while being under-supported by its creators, one wonders how successful it might have been had Sony been less intensely focused on the PlayStation 3.
Image: Arturo de Albornoz/Flickr
Sony admits it "under-supported" PSP [GI.biz]
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