Ready at Dawn co-founder Ru Weerasuriya has said that although the PlayStation Portable is a fine piece of kit, he feels the handheld platform was ultimately “doomed from the beginning.”
That’s despite the fact Sony’s slab has notched up an impressive 50.1 million sales worldwide, we might add. However, Weerasuriya argues that as the PSP was Sony’s inaugural handheld effort, there were ultimately a myriad of things that the company "dropped the ball on."
"It was the first portable that Sony released – it’s a trial by fire," he said, during an interview with EDGE. "It’s a good platform and you can make amazing things on it. I think that we’ve tried as much as possible to prove that in the last seven years.”
"But it was doomed from the beginning, that’s its biggest problem," the studio boss added.
"It was doomed from the very get-go. There are some things which aren’t conductive to calling it a true portable gaming platform and calling it a connective platform, although it has wi-fi.
"There’s so many things that publishers and the manufacturer and Sony dropped the ball on – it’s natural, it’s the first one."
Weerasuriya went on to add that he hopes Sony will ultimately learn from its mistakes with the PSP and PSPgo, and even suggested the hardware manufacturer should take a leaf out of its competitors books in an effort to improve things next time round.
"That hope that you can have is that they learn from that experience when they make the next one, and that they solve the issues with the PSP and the PSPgo – and also that they learn from what the others are doing," he said.
Ready at Dawn have churned out some mighty impressive efforts for Sony’s handheld console, such as the excellent God of War: Chains of Olympus and God of War Ghost of Sparta.