Slitherine Software is not a studio I am overly familiar with, but it has an awesome name. It is also one of the few developers out there that still seems to believe in the PSP, claiming it is a “huge opportunity,” especially with bigger developers overlooking it.
“To be honest, the PC version of the History Channel game was the least-performing one, because we already had our core audience from previous games, and if I look now at the success of the game itself, the PSP version gave us the best results,” claims marketing manager Marco Minoli, “That’s why we really keep pushing the PSP now, it’s perfect for us, for our strategy of history and strategy.
“To be very honest nobody’s looking at the PSP as a huge opportunity at the moment, and I really think there is a huge opportunity there. I’ve seen sales charts for some territories now and a top ten PSP game sells more than a top ten Nintendo DS game.”
With only Capcom and Square Enix representing large studios on the platform, perhaps the PSP could have become a home for smaller companies and more daring titles. However, Slitherine alone is not going to raise the system’s profile. The one company that truly needed to take advantage of the console’s “huge opportunity” has never done so. That company being Sony.
