God of War PSP Dev Talks About Ending PSP Development

Following the news that Ready at Dawn is "officially done" with PSP development, our friends at Joystiq caught up with the developer behind God of War: Chains of Olympus and Daxter to find out what prompted this decision.

Ready At Dawn's president, Didier Malenfant, commented, "We feel like we've done everything we wanted to do with the PSP. We have new projects on other platforms and we like to focus on one thing at a time."

Some speculation had pointed to piracy as one of the reasons for Ready at Dawn moving away from PSP, but that doesn't appear to be the case. "We sold over 2.3 millions copies of Daxter and are on track to beat that with Chains of Olympus so we're pretty happy with our sales," noted Malenfant. "Could we sell more games if piracy was non-existent? Maybe. But we don't target the market that could be, we target the market that is."

So what's Ready at Dawn working on now? Malenfant wouldn't specify other than to say that the studio has two original IPs in development and "some neat ideas with an existing IP." He added, "Most of that stuff is next-gen, but we'll see as we move forward what turns into games and/or what goes in different directions."

And who knows, perhaps one of these IPs will make to the PSP down the line. "You can never say never so we're not going to say you won't see any ports of our future games on PSP," he said.

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