Ready At Dawn on PSP Piracy

Ready At Dawn has launched God Of War: Ghost Of Sparta to stores worldwide already. Even though the release date is officially set for November 2nd, some stores are already selling copies.

But when VG247 talked to creative director Ru Weerasuriya, it looks like this will be the developer’s last call on PSP. As some developers before it, they too feel the pressure of piracy on PSP is doing in the powerful Sony handheld. “I’m not very familiar with how it is on the DS, but on the PSP it’s pretty rampant now all around the world,” Ru said. “It’s getting to the point where it doesn’t make sense to make games on it, if the piracy keeps on increasing. It definitely hurts a lot of developers out there who are trying to make great games.”

Then again, this wasn’t the first time they had no more eyes for PSP. It almost seemed that even Ghost Of Sparta might never have seen the light. Praise your gods that it did. “After two games on PSP with Daxter and Chains of Olympus, we thought that was it for us. We even sent our dev kits back,” he mentioned.
 

“I know this is like the boy who cried wolf, but this time we are definitely done. We have pushed the PSP as far as possible; we’ve even had to scale back because some things were not doable” Ru goes on to say. So it does look this time they’ll have to stick to their guns or spears or whatever. Perhaps they’ll get back to those missed opportunities on Sony’s second handheld.

After Devil May Cry, Star Wars: Force Unleashed 2 and several other large titles steering away from PSP, it is obvious piracy is taking the fun out of many gamers’ lives. Luckily, there are still many developers bringing out strong titles each year, but it’s always sad to see illegal activities actively ruining it for the rest of us. So stop it, bro, don’t pirate. If you really want to be a pirate that bad; Sid Meier’s Pirates! is available on PSP.

Daav Valentaten, NoobFeed.