PSP. It’s a great handheld, but it has often been criticized for having “too many ports.” Good news is that Sony is doing away with the ports. Expect to see more original games, as well as PSN titles on PSP in the near future, according to SCEE honcho David Reeves.

Honestly, probably we should have had more original PSP games, and there were some PS2 ports of course, but what you’re going to see now is – on PSN there are a lot of good, original games, so the situation you might be seeing in the future is some of those games coming onto PSP. They might be shorter, but they would be far more original.

So you’re going to see that our next thinking is, yes you’re exactly right, we now have to go back – don’t forget the services, the services will be put in place and rollout will be coherent – but we now have to go back and think more about the games because if we lose that advantage – well it’s not really an advantage, it’s the advantage Nintendo have on DS – that is what we now have to say. It’s like in the circus – you’ve got to keep all the plates up, you know? So the plate we’ll be working on now will be the games on PSP.

We already know that one PSN title is coming to PSP – Calling all Cars – but it’s great to hear that Sony will also be bringing other PSN titles over to PSP. The PSP certainly looks set for a bright future in 2008.

Sony’s David Reeves [GI.biz]

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