GTA: Chinatown Wars has been a success – to a certain extent. It didn’t do as well as hoped but it’s making money for the DS. Now, RockStar have announced via twitter that they are porting the game over to the PSP for all the Sony fans. The game is due to be launched on October the 20^th and will be available in two versions – on a UMD for the normal PSP and for download for the PSP Go which will not have a UMD drive. The PSP Go will be released on October the first.

I’m a little sceptical about this game. For the DS, it has good graphics and a unique way of playing a GTA – via a touch screen. But how can RockStar successfully port it over to the PSP. The controls would be entirely different and the graphics would be like a slap on the face for a devout PSP player. Even though RockStar have ported games before such as Vice City Stories and Liberty City Stories, both to the PS2 – they came from the PSP which is very similar in terms of gameplay and even graphics.

I just hope that RockStar aren’t biting off more than they can chew. If people perceive this as a PSP-first game because of its less than spectacular performance with the DS, then RockStar will be in trouble because their name represents quality and good performance – not cheap ports.