As crazy as it may seem, Sony have taken a ‘back seat’ approach and have not made it mandatory for PSP games to be released on PSN. Due to this Undead Knights, Naruto Shippuden: Legends: Akatsuki Rising, NBA 2K10, Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes and Cars: Race O Rama (all being released after the PSPgo) currently have no digital version. Will other publishers decide to go down this route and keep their games only on UMD?
The publisher Namco noted specifically that “there are currently no plans to release Akatsuki Rising on PSN right now,” despite its October 6 release on UMD.
Eric Lempel, SCEA’s director of PlayStation Network operations stated that “It’s up to individual third parties to decide if and when to publish their UMD releases on PSN. Most, if not all, are on board, as this is a revenue opportunity for them”
