In part two of his interview with EA CEO Larry Probst, N'Gai Croal gets the man to dish on the Playstation Portable and what it would take to get Electronic Arts to start developing original titles for it.

The most intriguing comments from Probst on the matter come after the CEO says that the Playstation Portable needs to be cheaper and in a different form factor for EA to change their current, port strategy for the portable.

I think what moves the needle is a new form factor that's smaller than the existing unit, at a lower price, and hopefully that price is $100 lower. This is pure speculation, we don't know what Sony's plans are. But it would not be hugely surprising if they had that lower priced unit at $149 and then a more fully-featured upscale unit that retails at $249 or $299. Again, that's pure speculation. We don't have any inside information on that.

Probst goes on to say that it would help to have more interoperability between the PSP and "other platforms". Amen. Let's get that PS3 PSP hook-up in overdrive already.

In this chunk of the interview Probst also touches on EA's next break-out hit (Spore, of course) and the chances of Warhammer Online posing any sort of threat to the MMO goliath World of Warcraft. Brian Crecente

Loot: The Larry Probst Interview, Part II [Newsweek]

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