SCEE president David Reeves admitted to EuroGamer earlier today that the PSP’s performance in 2008 was nowhere near as strong as it could have been, promising that 2009 will be a stronger year for the format.

“The competition has been such that publishers have had four consoles, plus PC, to publish for. They did not put their chips on PSP, certainly in the US and Europe,” said Reeves when asked about why he thought the PSP’s performance had been lacking.

“In Japan, a lot of publishers put their chips on PSP. So games like Monster Hunter, Phantasy Star Portable and Dissidia have caused enormous spikes for PSP in Japan. But there haven’t been big platform drivers in Europe.”

“Now I can look you in the face and say, the line-up for PSP in 2009 is two or three times stronger than it was last year, ” he said.

“We ran out of steam on games around August, September last year. We didn’t have a Monster Hunter or a Dissidia. But probably from March to July, you’re going to see that type of thing starting to kick in.”

Sony’s lovely little hand-held deserves the attention, so lets hope it gets the love it deserves this year!

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