Firaxis explains lack of Civ PSP

By Tom Bramwell Published 16 July, 2007

Isn't ruling it out for future.

Firaxis chose not to do a PSP version of Civilization Revolution because it didn't have the resources necessary to complete that in addition to Xbox 360, PS3, Wii and DS versions, all of which are being handled in-house.

"The reason the Wii version is in [autumn 2008] is because we realised that we could free up enough guys to do it, but we don't have enough guys to then do a PSP version as well," Firaxis' Barry Caudill told Eurogamer. The other versions are due out in the spring.

"It's not like we're dissing the platform - I use a PSP. We put Pirates out on it, or rather we had Full Fat do it. But see this one, the difference here is we're doing all of these in-house and so for PSP we may have to - if it was going to come out in a timely fashion - we may have to farm it out. But right now we're just doing all these in-house and that's the official word," Caudill explained.

So, ditch your conspiracy theories. We'll have more on Civilization Revolution, which looked extremely handsome at E3, as we work through all our notes and tapes in the coming days and weeks.

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About Tom Bramwell

Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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  • GamesConnoisseur #1 5 years ago

    Still does not put PSP in a good light that it is of a secondary concern and not likely to have own version ,despite that there is insufficent strategy titles available for PSP as opposited to what is already (and going to be) available on DS!

  • Razz #2 5 years ago

    Seeing most multil platorm developers port psp versions to the Wii I can see no reason why it can't work the other way.
    Edited by 1 at 16/07/07 @ 07:42

  • afray #3 5 years ago

    Disc: Disgaea (October 16th)

    Is that US or UK? Where did you get that info?

  • spongebob #4 5 years ago

    Government is behind it all. Firaxis is just afraid to admit it.

  • afray #5 5 years ago

    /does crazy dance

  • phl0w #6 5 years ago

    That first sentence is pretty misleading, as grammatically that "it" refers to the PSP (well actually to Civ Rev but that makes no sense), therefor on my first read I thought why the hell would the PSP lack resources for a game like Civ, which- i.e. resources- the DS apparently has.

    I don't mind no Civ on my PSP, I somehow grew tired of Civ IV on PC although round-based strategy games are perfect for handhelds (see Advance Wars).
    Edited by 1 at 16/07/07 @ 18:20

  • GamesConnoisseur #7 5 years ago

    disc. thanks for the list of PSP strategy titles and sure some of those I will certainly be looking forward to getting. but it is a disappointing blow that PSP is not like 'wow we must do it here as well' enough for Firaxis.