That’s right, Sony’s much-anticipated PSP game Resistance: Retribution has an official street date, and fortunately for us PSP gamers starving for something new to play it’s release isn’t too far out. Resistance: Retribution will invade retail shelves on March 17th, bringing with it jaw-dropping graphics, a story bridge between the two PS3 Resistance games, and some unique interoperability features with Resistance 2 and the PS3, including the ability to play the game on a TV set with a DualShock 3 controller! Learn more about these features and catch the brand new CES trailer in the PlayStation blog interview/trailer combo video embedded below.
CES 2009: Resistance Retribution Release Date & Latest Trailer Revealed [PlayStation.Blog]
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Amazon also has a pre-order deal where you can get into the exclusive beta with a pre-order.
I like the idea of the inter-op, but don’t like the way that it continues to feel like Sony uses the PSP as more of a ‘PS3 Trojan Horse’ than a real system.
I agree with that somewhat. For whatever reason Sony doesn’t seem to want to go all out with the PSP. They promote it and continue to release updated models, but I still don’t get the sense that they really want to make it the dominant portable device it COULD be. Of course, the lacking third-party support is every bit as responsible for the PSP not reaching its full potential. Other than RPG makers like Squenix, Atlus, Xseed and NIS the PSP rarely gets a third-party game worth talking about.
As someone who owns both a PSP and PS3 though, I applaud Sony for doing a lot to connect the two systems. Again, still a lot of potential they’ve yet to tap into with the inter-op functionality, but the remote play stuff alone is fantastic.
While we’re getting a bit off-topic, why WOULD third parties support it? It has a piracy rate solid enough to make the PC blush, software sales that are crap, store shelf location that is smaller than PC games in every store I see, and the aforementioned lack of real support post 2006 from Sony.
As for connection support, look at it this way – you are losing *both* console wars by at least a factor of 2x … why not at least get some software sales by doing tie-ins?
The piracy issue is definitely a problem, but software sales is a different story I think. If third-parties put out good quality PSP titles rather than slapped together ports of console games I think they’d see much better sales. When good PSP games come along they do sell well. Crisis Core, God of War, Ratchet & Clank, Daxter, MGS: PO, Monster Hunter, etc.
The problem as I see it is third-parties can’t get away with stuffing shovelware down the throats of PSP owners like they can on the DS, so they don’t bother. And games is one area I will never fault Sony. Their first-party support for any of their platforms is excellent in terms of quality.