Sony wants Ready At Dawn back!!

[caliblue15]

Ready at Dawn, the development studio behind two of the most popular titles for the Playstation Portable, may be returning to PSP development.

The studio famously got out of the PSP-development business last year, returning their development kits to Sony and moving on to other things. But John Koller, director of hardware marketing for Sony Computer Entertainment of America, says that Sony Computer Entertainment have been in talks with the studio about returning to the PSP.

"Ready at Dawn is a fantastic developer, they did God of War: Chains of Olympus and Daxter," he said. "The conversations with them continue.

"Don't give up on Ready at Dawn yet."

Koller said that a lot of studios who were reluctant to develop for the Playstation Portable in 2006 have noticed the surge in PSP sales with the release of the PSP 2000 model. That, he says, explains the impressive slate of games announced this week for the portable.

"In mid 2006 the hardware had seen a bit of a bottoming out, a lot of publishers decided to reallocate their resources," he said. "In 2007 the PSP 2000 came out and we saw a big increase in sales. When we met with developers in 2008 they said, 'How can we get back into the PSP?'"

With the long development window, those games are just now starting to hit the console.

Sony also sat down with developers and talked to them about stream lining costs to make game development and marketing for the PSP more cost effective.

"We went in with a number of ideas and really laid it out," he said. "We had recommendations about franchises that made a lot of sense for the PSP."

http://kotaku.com/5161245/sony-in-ta...bout-psp-title

[Maximus]

YES!!

We all want Ready at Dawn back! Awesome developer, SCE should stump up the cash and buy the only AAA PSP developer!

[AikonEnt]

Chains of Olympus is excellent so definitely bring them back if they can produce more games of that quality.

Max, is that Miss Hazell and her 2 friends?

[xtop]

Originally Posted by Maxpower1987

YES!!

We all want Ready at Dawn back! Awesome developer, SCE should stump up the cash and buy the only AAA PSP developer!

no freaking kidding!

[xtop]

Here's the deal: Joystiq has learned from a trusted source that Ready at Dawn, the studio behind the PSP's excellent God of War: Chains of Olympus, is working on a new Kratos adventure for PSP. Apparently the studio hasn't sworn off PSP development once and for all.

The informant tells us Ready at Dawn did, in fact, ship all of its PSP development kits back to Sony last summer, but received new kits in late 2008 after Sony ordered up the sequel. It's possible that, given its current state of development, the game might appear in some form at June's E3 Expo, our source reports. The title seems an unlikely candidate for release this year, but could be timed to coincide with God of War III's launch, which may occur in early 2010.

When contacted for comment, Ready at Dawn president and co-founder, Didier Malenfant, responded: "You know that even if we were [making the game], I couldn't answer your question." We see a "know" in there, but not a "no."

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/02/27/ru...ew-god-of-war/

[sega_smasher]

that would be pure win. i cannot wait for that to be released!

[Marine Mike]

I actually dusted off my PSP yesterday as it gave me something to do while the wife was shopping.

I definately think that getting these guys back on track with making games for the PSP will lead to success for the console.

[caliminius]

Sony needs to do something to save the PSP as a gaming system (at least in the U.S., maybe things are different in Japan). Gamestop's listings show a depressingly small 31 games coming out for the PSP. A large number are EA Sport's near-year-new-game and a just as large number are movie tie-in games that almost guaranteed to be pure crap.

[xtop]

Originally Posted by caliminius

Sony needs to do something to save the PSP as a gaming system (at least in the U.S., maybe things are different in Japan). Gamestop's listings show a depressingly small 31 games coming out for the PSP. A large number are EA Sport's near-year-new-game and a just as large number are movie tie-in games that almost guaranteed to be pure crap.

have you missed all the huge announcements?? plus thats only half of what they're going to announce this year

[AranhaHunter]

Originally Posted by xtop

no freaking kidding!

There's a good 7-8 close developers that work with Sony that I think they should try to acquire at least a couple of them, it wouldn't break the bank and it would guarantee long term success for future Playstations and Playstation Portables.