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Hudson Soft is a publishing company based in Japan which specializes in electronic entertainment and is a known name among PSP owners. 18 May 1973 was the day when the company opened shop and operations began. Initially their dealings were limited to products related to computers but gradually over the years the company has moved onto the publishing of video games and development of mobile content. As of now, the company is controlled by the Japanese Game developing behemoth, Konami Entertainment.

The foundation of the company was first laid in Japan in the year 1973 by Yuji Kudo and Hiroshi Kudo who were real-life siblings. Both of them were enamored by trains and thus named the company after the famous Hudson Locomotive. They started a shop by selling art pictures and devices related to telecommunications. A couple of years down the line, they expanded the business by selling products dealing with personal computers and eventually ventured into the development of computer games.

They tied up with Nintendo and started developing games for them and then came Lode Runner, which was such a big hit that it sold more than a million copies in the game market in 1984. The fairytale success continued with the launch of Bomberman, which has even made its way to the PSP in the form of Bomberman Land (PSP). Other hit games by the publishers include the Mario party series.

The C62 system was developed in 1987 by Hudson which led them to collaborate with Nippon Electric Corporation, and thus the development of the PC engine game console which would prove to be a monstrous hit among gamers. In the later part of 2000, Hudson decided to go public as they were listed on the NASDAQ Japan stock exchange, thus propelling their popularity. Konami saw 5this as a good business venture and bought shares in bulk which made them the largest shareholder of the company leading to a virtual takeover.

Slowly Hudson has also ventured into the North American gaming market, establishing offices in many parts of North America thus globalizing the brand. They still continue to develop and manufacture video games and have constantly churned out hits over the years.

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There is no doubt the PSP is a very popular gaming system, but there is a problem that needs to be looked into right away—the PSP suffers from a content drought. There just isn’t enough content being released for the PSP to heat up operations. Right now, the handheld is admittedly rather cold.

However, the spirits aren’t doused one bit and our folks still look at the PSP phenomenon very positively. According to this post on pspfanboy, very recently, Scott Orr — the founder of D2C games — admitted in an interview that PSP is like a sleeping Giant and that the only thing it is waiting on is the input of quality content. This came about surprisingly after an earlier release from D2C did not fare well on the PSP.

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“While porting over a budget title from the Wii is not really a clear indication of fully supporting the “sleeping giant,” it is good to see D2C putting something on the PSP. The company’s positive outlook does seem a bit surprising given that Orr himself admitted that D2C’s previous venture on the handheld did not fare too well in terms of sales. We’re talking about the digital comic The Cryptics.”

The company is also looking at ways to port some games from other consoles on to the PSP — although that might not be the best thing for PSP owners (original PSP dedicated games are often better), it still answers the drought question.

Lack of content is an issue but it is comforting to know that the effort is on and people seemed to have noticed the popularity of the PSP is soaring. It is only a matter of time now before we have some swashbuckling titles released for the insatiable bunch of PSP gamers.

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