You know it is really sad when Sony’s PlayStation Portable (PSP) has a mere handful of games that were released exclusively on the PSP platform, while the majority of the others were readily available in a much more graphically superior version on the PS2. Unfortunately, the PS2 is slowly but surely being phased out with the recent introduction of the PS3, which leads to the question - where will the PSP get its list of ported games from in the future? The answer, ironically, lies in its rivals - the Nintendo DS Lite and ageing Game Boy Advance.

The DS by and large already has a bunch of ported games from the Gameboy Advance early in the system’s life, although plenty more DS exclusives have been released over the past year. This leaves the PSP with no choice other than to remake GBA titles, since the PSP has no touchscreen functionality to take advantage of DS ports. The most obvious choice that could revive flagging PSP sales would be the recently announced Final Fantasy titles. Word on the street is, there will be a PSP port of the GBA RPG, Riviera.

Of course, the GBA and DS are not the only sources for ports, but they could be the major supplier. The Xbox will also chip in with a couple of titles such as Xyanide and Painkiller: Hell Wars. All this is strangely ironic as most people thought the power of Sony’s marketing and the PSP’s technical specifications would be a clear winner, but apparently nearly everyone forgot that it is the content that matter and not just technical wizardry.

Source: PSP Fanboy

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