SOE on upcoming downloadable PSP titles on PS3: “not at this time”

According to a recently published interview by Gamasutra with Sony Online Entertainment producer Todd Carson, the puzzler on wheels title GripShift and Cash Guns Chaos would probably be the only titles originally conceptualized for the PSP to be released on the PlayStation 3. Quoting Carson, he said, “Not at this time.”

Sidhe Interactive‘s GripShift was officially announced as an original intellectual property that first came out on Sony’s handheld, the PlayStation Portable system. But as soon as Sony Online Entertainment had the opportunity to deliver a downloadable game to the next-gen console over the PlayStation Network, they released a souped up version of the game with a lower price point.

But it probably isn’t a case of favoring one console over another. Sony’s Cash Guns Chaos was released on the PlayStation 3, although it was first conceptualized for mobile gamers on the PSP handheld. SOE figured that if they were putting a lot of work into the game, they could feature a better version of Cash Guns Chaos over to the PlayStation 3 first. Carson expounds:

You buy games on the PSP because itÂ’s a mobile device, you want to take it on the run. The two consoles really are two separate entities – and while people might have both and buy [GripShift] on both, we didnÂ’t see them necessarily as competing with each other.

The other thing that actually helped influence our decision [to focus on the PS3 first] for Cash Guns Chaos is that you really need to play the game with two analog sticks. While the PSP has one analog stick, we had set up controls where you had to use the X, circle, square and triangle key to control which direction your character was shooting.

Sony Online Entertainment’s High Stakes on the Vegas Strip: Poker Edition is slated for a summer release over the PlayStation Network, and SOE hopes to provide more games that take advantage of the feature set of SIXAXIS.

According to a recently published interview by Gamasutra with Sony Online Entertainment producer Todd Carson, the puzzler on wheels title GripShift and Cash Guns Chaos would probably be the only titles originally conceptualized for the PSP to be released on the PlayStation 3. Quoting Carson, he said, “Not at this time.”

Sidhe Interactive‘s GripShift was officially announced as an original intellectual property that first came out on Sony’s handheld, the PlayStation Portable system. But as soon as Sony Online Entertainment had the opportunity to deliver a downloadable game to the next-gen console over the PlayStation Network, they released a souped up version of the game with a lower price point.

But it probably isn’t a case of favoring one console over another. Sony’s Cash Guns Chaos was released on the PlayStation 3, although it was first conceptualized for mobile gamers on the PSP handheld. SOE figured that if they were putting a lot of work into the game, they could feature a better version of Cash Guns Chaos over to the PlayStation 3 first. Carson expounds:

You buy games on the PSP because itÂ’s a mobile device, you want to take it on the run. The two consoles really are two separate entities – and while people might have both and buy [GripShift] on both, we didnÂ’t see them necessarily as competing with each other.

The other thing that actually helped influence our decision [to focus on the PS3 first] for Cash Guns Chaos is that you really need to play the game with two analog sticks. While the PSP has one analog stick, we had set up controls where you had to use the X, circle, square and triangle key to control which direction your character was shooting.

Sony Online Entertainment’s High Stakes on the Vegas Strip: Poker Edition is slated for a summer release over the PlayStation Network, and SOE hopes to provide more games that take advantage of the feature set of SIXAXIS.