Krunal's blog

Trophies for the Playstation 3 has been incredibly successful, and has helped them to a small extent gain some ground on Microsoft's XBOX360. However, I don't believe that games a lone will help Sony become the market leader like they did with the PS2.

They unlike Microsoft, have an advantage in the market which they've not sapped into fully, and that advantage is obviously the Playstation Portable. So how exactly can Sony use the Playstation Portable to help it out? Simple, at the moment trophies/achievements are restricted STRICTLY to the two next-gen consoles: PS3 and XBOX360 respectively.

So what better a move would it be for Sony to take the next step, and make it so that PSP games also have Trophies? That's right, I'm suggesting getting Trophies for PSP games.

Not just that, but make people create accounts like with the PS3 (not sure if it can be done already or not... still a few more months till I get my PSP), and link it to a PSN Account. Then the player can earn trophies in games by doing whatever task is necessary, and then they can either go online to resync it with the network, or connect the PSP to the PS3 and have it resync with the PS3 (which if connected online, will resync with the network).

That's not all... best of all I think that the trophies you gain should be attached to the same account. So if I have say, Resistance 2 trophies on my PS3, and Resistance: Retribution Trophies on my PSP, when sync'd with the server, I should be able to attach them to my Playstation Network account.

At the moment Microsoft doesn't have a hand-held system, and Nintendo wont be doing anything like this, so why not make the first move and make trophies go over two platforms. I'm sure Microsoft will do it eventually (and far sooner than Sony) with the next XBOX, so why don't Sony beat them to the punch and make their hand-held system allow trophies?

There are absolutely no problems with this that I can think off besides the high piracy issue, in which case they can maybe add some form of check to make sure that you only get the trophies as long as you've actually got the game and aren't running it off the memory card (unless it's a game downloaded from the PSN Store).

Then all the games that are multi-platform on the PSN store (I mean PS3/PSP compatible), you can essentially play as the game for trophies at home, then when going out, resync the PSP, transfer the save and carry on getting the trophies when your out.

So guys and girls, what do you think?