Can Sony revive the PSP? The PS3?

[Image: sonyhome.jpg]I’ve been in the habit, over the past year, of bashing Sony for practically every decision their gaming division has made. The PSP has been pretty lackluster from the get-go, and let’s not go anywhere near the PS3 launch.

To their credit, however, the Sony press conference coverage at PlayFeed suggests that Sony is trying to put some new life into its gaming machines the only real way they can: creating sweet games and dropping them in an innovative interface.

They’re crazy new HOME system which I hear tons of good things about, is actually a development on an idea that I’ve heard tossed around the blogosphere for some time. A while ago Scoble mused about making an Operating System based on SecondLife, which is more or less what this sounds like.

And then I read things like this:

PSP’s turn, as a plethora of trailers are shown for various games, including SOCOM Tactical Strike, NBA 08, Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles, The Sims 2: Castaway, Silent Hill Origins, God of War: Chains of Olympus, Patapon, SWAT: Target Liberty, and more.

Which is great news for a handheld system that is largely dead. If Sony keeps at it, they may yet push some real life back into their games department. Of course they need to drop the $60 pricetag on the games, though - I’ll just buy the PC version for $10 less.