Sony: 2009 is the ‘year of the PSP’

Oh Sony, you really need to stop saying that each year will be “the year of” something, because when it invariably isn’t, you look like a real prat. I know, you’re not listening, so go right ahead and claim that 2009 will be the year of the PSP. Clearly 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 were all practice years.

“I also think 2009 is going to be the year of the PSP,” claimed PlayStation Canada’s PR boy Mark Levitan. “We have Resistance: Retribution coming in February but I’ve seen a lot of the stuff in development and it is not a mistake by any means to a buy a PSP now.”

The PlayStation Portable has been around for four years, and it has failed to have the robust library or developer support that the technically inferior DS has accumulated. Don’t get me wrong, I adore my PSP just as much as my DS, but I really wish Sony would stop talking and start doing. Sure, Resistance is heading to the PSP, but what then? The release schedule for this year and next is pathetically thin, and of that list, not even a handful of enthralling games are evident.

I don’t think my PSP, for what games are on it, was a mistake. But at the same time, it gathers dust for long periods of time while the DS spoils me for choice. I crave a reason to turn my PSP on, and right now, Sony isn’t giving me one. It’s merely giving me promise after promise, just like usual.