Your thoughts on the Sony PSP?

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I shunned the device, laughed at UMD movies and didin't care for portable gaming in general for years. This summer I finally decided to check one out since I was really enjoying my PS3. When the slim was announced I decided to pick one up. I couldn't be happier.

As a gaming device, it is pretty neat. I've used it on a couple plane trips already. The multimedia aspects are what really turned me on to it. Video looks really good and I even picked up a few UMD discs ($3.99 on black friday) for it. The best thing that has happened to it for me was the latest update which gave it internet radio. I'm now using it every day instead of waiting to use it for traveling. It is like having free XM or Sirius radio.

The downside is that the slim model doesn't work with any of the speaker systems out there. I bought the really nice Nodus system and the connections are different. I can at least plug in a cable from the PSP to the speaker's auxilary but that's it. Because I like the music aspects of the PSP I might purchase an old core system to use just for that.

Overall I'm pretty happy with it. I haven't heard anything about a PSP2. Probably not for another couple years. If they do I hope they add another analog stick and perhaps even add the sixaxis tilt type function. Could make for cool games.