When Civilization Revolution was announced, Firaxis had said that the game would come on next-gen and handheld consoles. However, it emerged that the game would not be coming on Sony’s handheld console, the PlayStation Portable. Firaxis’ Barry Caudill spoke to Eurogamer why there is no PSP version of Civilization Revolution.
Barry Caudill said, “The reason the Wii version is in (autumn 2008) is because we realized 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. 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.”
Civilization Revolution is expected to release on the PS3, Nintendo DS, Wii and the Xbox 360. Except the Wii version of Civilization Revolution, the other versions of the game are expected to release in Spring 2008.