Sony's Reeves: "We Should Have Had More Original PSP Games"

Sony Europe's David Reeves knows that the PSP hasn't been as "explosive" as the DS, and thinks he has a good handle on why. In an interview with GamesIndustry, Reeves very frankly outlines the missteps he feels Sony has taken with its handheld, beginning with thinking of it as a media device, despite the fact that the majority of folks buying it purchased it to play games:

And we didn't have the services, so we took this decision maybe a year ago and said what we'll do now is we'll bring out more services because we know that the games are coming. Honestly, probably we should have had more original PSP games, and there were some PS2 ports of course, but what you're going to see now is - on PSN there are a lot of good, original games, so the situation you might be seeing in the future is some of those games coming onto PSP. They might be shorter, but they would be far more original.

Reeves goes on to say that Nintendo has the advantage with portable games, so now it's up to Sony to "go back and think more about the games." He also mentions that Sony is pondering whether to commit to flash memory or to a hard drive for the PSP, a decision they have yet to make.

Reeves is refreshingly straightforward whenever he speaks. It's encouraging to see at least one high-level exec who isn't afraid to say yes, we could've done that better, so let's do what we can to fix it.

Sony's David Reeves [GamesIndustry]