An anonymous comment has surfaced over at Guardian's Gamesblog. While it doesn't exactly bring promising PSP, it does illustrate how British third party devs feel about the Wii. So. Onto the quote!

At a GDC conference in Brighton last year, everyone walked away from the PSP. Developers had to budget for PS2 content on a handheld with a tiny userbase. Its not cost effective, (especially when the alternative DS has a massive userbase and is cheap to develop for). At the same time, Nintendo had sent Wiimotes that plug into Gamecube devkits to all registered developers. Instead of forking out thousands of quid to Sony for devkits that they still weren't releasing, studios were coming up with innovative Wii ideas. Instead of training coders to program the world's most complicated Cell processor, the Gamecube team just switched to the Wii.

None of this has been confirmed firsthand, so do please take it with the proverbial grain of salt. Brian Ashcraft

Comment On PSP's UK Development Future [Gamesblog]

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