Publishers are lining up to develop for the PSP - but can Sony get movies and music onto its latest wunderkind?
Impressive specifications are one thing, but Sony"s PlayStation Portable launch also put a strong emphasis on the wide range of developers working on the handheld; what about the movies and music aspects of UMD, however? There"s strength in numbers when it comes to software support, at least as far as Sony is concerned, and a huge list of some 99 developers and publishers was rolled out to demonstrate just how many companies are scrambling to support the forthcoming portable.
Admittedly the list cheated a bit - we counted Konami on it five times, with each of the company"s development subsidiaries listed - but it"s an impressive cross-section of the games industry regardless, and many of those studios are bringing major franchises to the PSP early in the console"s lifespan.