Ok so I'm going to negate the first party games since this is a conversation about third party support. Basically from your own mouth, what a PSP owner that doesn't like RPGs has to look forward to is a few racers and some mystery games from Capcom. How is it again this doesn't look like third party support drying up?

I said western support was drying up. It's the first line in your quote of me.It is a role that Sony is TRYING to fulfill. I mention Capcom and Konami because they have series that western gamers seem to enjoy in the action genre as well hopefully helping round out the library.

Dont worry buddy :P You are not alone :D

wow, has it been 10 years already?!? time flies i guess.

It's not JUST western support. It's also desirable japanese support outside of RPGs. Capcom has been steadily decreasing it's support. Konami is steadily decreasing it's support. Atlus is steadily decreasing it's support. Namco is steadily decreasing it's support. Sega is steadily decreasing it's support. The only publishers staying on board seem to be Nippon Ichi, Level 5 and Square Enix, and they all specialize in RPGs.

Sony cannot be a cure all for lack of western support either. There are only a limited number of studios working on PSP games, because the majority is hard at work on the big boy PS3 trying to overcome another rival in bloody battle over second place. Therefore, Resistance Retribution is just a replacement for Syphon Filter. It's either one or the other, not both. Why? Because Insomniac is too important to the PS3 for Sony to utilize on the PSP, so Sony Bend(Syphon Filter's developer) has taken the reins of the franchise going portable. In fact, most of Sony's franchises going portable have been done by hands other than the main teams because Sony puts their real energy behind PS3 releases. So if Sony is going to perpetuate an image that the PSP is second fiddle, then how do you expect third party developers to respond?

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I should say that instead of "who cares if western development dries up?" I don't care.

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"Decisions made 20-22 months ago from a development cycle perspective are affecting the quantity of titles available today," said Koller. "20-22 months ago developers and publishers were looking at the PSP hardware and thinking 'It's not selling as well, maybe it's time to move our resources elsewhere.'"

"Things may be looking up for 2009. Koller said Sony has been on a road show for months visiting with all of the major publishers to get them stoked about PSP software development. A number of "very strong franchise games" (which have yet to be officially announced) will be launching next year, he said, and third party support is expected to pick up as well."
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/86456-PSP-Hemorrhaging-Third-Party-Support

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TGS has yet to happen, so lets see if we don't hear some announcements from Japanese companies that are supposedly decreasing their support since Japanese devs seem to be really about the portable scene as of late.

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The development cycle for PSP is probably a bit longer than that of the DS just about insuring less titles. Which also might give the appearance of steadily decreasing support.

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3rd Birthday will be a Third Person Action Game coming from SE. Just because they specialize in RPG's doesn't mean that haven't tried anything else and had it work out like PE2 which was a RE clone, Brave Fencer Musashi, Bushido Blade all games with good critical reception and cult following.

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Notice the capitalization of the word TRYING in my previous post which means I was emphasizing it to show the exact same point, Sony is not the cure but they are TRYING to be.

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Monster Hunter and its expansions don't seem like withdrawing support.

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Phantasy Star Portable (a decent success I might add) doesn't seem like withdrawing support.

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PES 2009 will continue to hit the system as well

It's like I predicted a year ago. By late 2009, we won't see but a few sporadic 3rd party games for the PSP. By 2010 they will need to bring out a new PSP or give up on handhelds.

1. Fair enough. That still shows a glaring contradiction in your N64 comparison, but whatever. Done deal.

2. I would be overjoyed if this comes to pass. Here's hoping that this is true.

3. TGS will not help the situation with western development, only Japanese. This at best can solve only half of the problem.

4. There were graphs posted by waron that show PSP software has been decreasing in quantity for the last two years at a roughly 20% rate. Go back to read it. That is in comparison only with itself.

5. Those games all came out on the PSOne. Square shaved off most of it's non-RPG aspirations long ago. Also I clearly explained that the majority support was either RPGs or spinoffs featuring RPG characters, like the new Parasite Eve, FF Dissidia and the Prinny game from NIS. I did acknowledge the fact there were other genres being approached but they were the exception, not the rule.

6. Ok, fair enough, but my point was that their trying will fail because Sony is not putting more energy into the PSP to accomodate this third party downward spiral. They are simply changing the franchises they put on there, like how we won't have a new Syphon Filter because we will now have Resistance. It doesn't give us more games, just different ones.

7. Capcom supports hasn't dwindled? You speak of one series, which has made one game per year. How about Capcom's support outside of Monster Hunter? In 2006, Capcom released 10 PSP titles. In 2007, Capcom released 2 PSP titles. In 2008, Capcom released 2 PSP titles. How do you not see dwindling support? Capcom released 2 1/2 times more titles in 2006 alone than 2007 and 2008 combined.

8. Sega released 7 PSP titles in 2006. They then released about 11 titles in 2007. So far in 2008 they've put out about 2 titles, one of which is only available in Japan right now, and won't be localized for a bit. Sure there are a helping of other Sega titles on the PSP, if you live in Japan, but a good 40% of Sega's titles are never leaving the land of the rising sun.

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I can't wait for TGS because I care much more about Japanese support than Western.