Codemasters: PSP Is A “Bollocking Useless Waste Of Space”

Harsh words, right there, from Gavin Cheshire, Vice President of Codemasters, the guys behind DiRT, Operation Flashpoint and upcoming Bodycount. Gavin Cheshire is an owner of a PlayStation Portable, and his experience with it caused him to rage at Sony’s handheld in the latest issue of the Edge magazine.

“Well, speaking as a person who bought a PSP, the problem was that I always thought – because it was a better screen than iPod’s – that I’d be doing more with it” he told Edge. “But it was such a bollocking useless waste of space; just getting stuff on it was ridiculous”.

“That was its downfall. Relatively speaking, [Codemasters] didn’t do too badly on F1 PSP. But regarding the future, I think they’ve got – well… no”.

“PSPgo’s a lovely device,” he adds, “really smart – but our senior VP bought one the day it came out and has a great story, because he ended up on some customer support line just trying to do basic stuff. He had to re-download his software, do an immediate firmware update, and that’s your user experience.”

“Sony just hasn’t got it right. Stuff like that will make people leave it alone.”

I would certainly hope that Sony plan to actually release the PSP 2 (the real one) sometime soon. Hopefully we’ll hear something about it at this year’s E3.

Codemasters Exec [Edge]