Sony Wants Rock Band, Guitar Hero on PSP

Theworldwide musicrhythm sensations Rock Band and Guitar Hero have touched down on just about every console imaginable, but inexplicably have passed over the PSP. In a recent interview with MTV (a place that should know about these things) Sony marketing exec John Koller said he would very much like to see iterations of both games appear on the handheld.Considering Sony's targeted older teen demographic and the hip, urban style of much PSP marketing, we are genuinely surprised that these franchises have so far evaded the handheld. In his statement, however, Koller did not specify exactly when or how this lack of music titles would be remedied:

"It’s of huge interest to us. That’s something you’d really have to talk to the developers on that side [if] it’s going to happen or not. For us, we look at the music area as being critical for PSP and the social area of interest as well. PSP is a lot different than your traditional handheld product and music is the number two use on the PSP, behind gaming. So, the marrying of those two concepts is of huge interest to us, and if there’s that opportunity to launch a title like that or even a new title that utilizes music in some way, then obviously we’re very interested.”



The abrupt and audacious absence of Rock Band and Guitar hero on the PSP makes us wonder, "Why accept these developers captivated aback from absolution their amateur on the PSP?" The handheld seems like the absolute belvedere to ambition with amateur like this. There are apparently a amount of affidavit for the abhorrence of publishers. Most chiefly is acceptable the slower sales of the PSP in North America abaft the cheaper and beneath able Nintendo DS. Marketing wizards at Harmonix and Neversoft accept apparently looked actual carefully at the installed abject on both systems and absitively that the PSP is not in abundant American easily (yet) to accreditation porting the bold over accurately for the handheld. Secondly, advancing piracy and a weakness in software sales has assertive some North American developers to break abroad from the arrangement altogether. Sony needs to advance this acumen arch on if they wish to argue developers like Harmonix to accompany their creations to the PSP.