Goodbye, Sony PSP

[Musashi]

Originally Posted by Leopold BUTTERS

I don't know anyone over 18 playing handhelds.

Nothing could be further from the truth. I'm 28 and I play my DS alot. I'm getting a PSP in '09; bunch of games I want for it.

But my real point is about Japan, where the focus has shifted heavily to handhelds over consoles. Most Japanese gamers were young when they started playing older games. Now, the ppl who grew up with video games are my age, and thus they have jobs. Your average work commute in Japan can be over an hour a day, and sitting on a train you gotta fill the time somehow. Hence: handhelds are booming in Japan.

[SHines-IT]

Originally Posted by Musashi

Nothing could be further from the truth. I'm 28 and I play my DS alot. I'm getting a PSP in '09; bunch of games I want for it.

But my real point is about Japan, where the focus has shifted heavily to handhelds over consoles. Most Japanese gamers were young when they started playing older games. Now, the ppl who grew up with video games are my age, and thus they have jobs. Your average work commute in Japan can be over an hour a day, and sitting on a train you gotta fill the time somehow. Hence: handhelds are booming in Japan.

In Japan it may be great. But here in America majority of us have cars and drive an hour to work/school. I don't think other motorist wants me playing GTA while I am driving, lol.

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by Musashi

But my real point is about Japan, where the focus has shifted heavily to handhelds over consoles. Most Japanese gamers were young when they started playing older games. Now, the ppl who grew up with video games are my age, and thus they have jobs. Your average work commute in Japan can be over an hour a day, and sitting on a train you gotta fill the time somehow. Hence: handhelds are booming in Japan.

Yeah, I can remember when the green monochrome Gameboy was losing to the new color handhelds--
All of a sudden, we never saw actual teens play the game in the ads, we saw a lot of working grownup commuters playing Tetris at the bus stop, and the pitch to "This Father's Day, get your DAD something he'd really like!"

(It's a wonder Nintendo's handheld industry even survived a campaign like that... )

[mattym]

i really like my psp for gaming, and i really dont like my iphone for gaming, battlefield bad company on iphone with touch screen?? kin ell its tricky, the psp needs an update, it needs flash memory or a card type game, not a disk..

[davidxiphoid]

I don't own a PSP yet but plan on getting one soon. Either way how is having over 42 million PSP's sold considered a failure?! I swear Sony get's slammed for everything they do no matter how bad or good.

[york weir]

I loved mine when I got it, played it a ton and then got bored with it.

I got so frustrated with it too because the LCD is a total piece of crap. I went through 5 units just to get one without any pixels dead. Perhaps I just got lucky with the quality of my DS that I have.

I will have fond memories of my PSP though becuase I had a great time playing older games from the NES on it.

Originally Posted by davidxiphoid

I don't own a PSP yet but plan on getting one soon. Either way how is having over 42 million PSP's sold considered a failure?! I swear Sony get's slammed for everything they do no matter how bad or good.

I guess it's all about the giant being slayed. The day that Apple passed Microsoft in OS's sold you can bet a lot that there will be a ton of similar articles.

[fighthefutureofhd]

the psp is great. it's the best gaming system out there period. mind you, i don't play my psp much, but then i don't play games much. when i do it's usually the psp i go for. i am more of a portable gamer actually and i think the psp is the slickest gaming device out there. nothing else can touch it.

[Rob71]

Originally Posted by toefer

I've said it before, so I'll say it again... as a portable emulator, the PSP can't be beat. Even if there were 0 PSP games worth playing, I'd almost think it's worth it to carry around hundreds of NES, SNES, GBA, Sega, etc games, to play whenever I want.**

**Yes, I know that it's not capable of doing this out of the box, but anyone with any interest in it could find out how to do it with a little help from our friend Mr. Goo Gle.

Interesting. Have you tried MAME on it?




Let me know if this is off limits and I'll delete.

[york weir]

Originally Posted by Rob71

Interesting. Have you tried MAME on it?




Let me know if this is off limits and I'll delete.

I've never gotten MAME to work on mine but then again I never updated mine beyond the 3.03b.

[dpomp]

i think they need to stop releasing psp 2000s and psp 3000s and psp 4000s
and make the psp2 already.


they need 2 analog sticks, 2 left and right triggers and an internal hard drive.
if the old ipods can have 160gb hard drive why can't the psp have a 250gb. then i might actually download games for my psp. i don't want to spend 40 dollars on an overpriced 4gb memory stick duo. sony needs to just be smart about the whole thing and stop making improvments to a dead product. i bought 2 psps and quite a few games but i'm not going to be spending much more money on it. until they release a psp2.

[groovyone]

I have a PSP and like it a lot. I have to travel quite a bit for work, and it is awesome in airports and on planes. It is also incredibly handy in doctors offices. I used it to sell a friend on the PS3 since I could bring in clips for PS3 games on it. Now he has both the PS3 and PSP.

As for the 'over 18' comment, I am 32 and he is 40. Both of us are mechanical engineers. Maybe us MEs just stay young longer.

[dpomp]

Originally Posted by Leopold BUTTERS

I don't know anyone over 18 playing handhelds.

i'm 22 and i play my psp.

[Chocolatejas]

26 and still play mine. Great for traveling.

[mikejet]

Nintendo is finally pushing the DS to be in the US what it is in Japan. Over there everyone has a DS and they use it for so many random things. There's "games" that teach proper manners! It's nice that we now have two cooking games.

[toef]

Originally Posted by Rob71

Interesting. Have you tried MAME on it?

Yes, but didn't like it because it didn't play the main game I was hoping to play (WWF Wrestlefest).

[DetroitSportsFan]

My nephew just got on for Christmas, and it looks like a nice little gaming machine. I've never been a fan on portable gaming though, and I know if I did buy one I would rarely use it.

[crxvtec]

when we decided to get a portable gaming machine for my oldest son(9years old) we decided to get a DS because it was cheaper. we ended up buying a 2nd DS for my 4 year old and they are always playing together. When they go to bed I usually take over and start playing it. It is a very good game system. I really did not like the UMD. I think they should have used standard mini disk. I know it helps them save as you really cant burn a UMD.

[dialog_gvf]

It seems to me people are either fuming about Sony domination. Or declaring any product that isn't dominant dead and buried.

Gary

[toef]

Originally Posted by crxvtec

when we decided to get a portable gaming machine for my oldest son(9years old) we decided to get a DS because it was cheaper. we ended up buying a 2nd DS for my 4 year old and they are always playing together. When they go to bed I usually take over and start playing it. It is a very good game system. I really did not like the UMD. I think they should have used standard mini disk. I know it helps them save as you really cant burn a UMD.

You can't burn copies of UMDs, but it's pretty easy to burn a UMD into an ISO, and then play the game off the ISO (or CSO). I prefer playing my games this way, because I sometimes get annoyed with the UMD spinning around, and it also allows me to throw a few of my games onto a single memory stick, instead of carrying around multiple UMDs.

[Steelmaker]

I have a PSP and for the most part, I have been satisfied with it. However my nephews have Nintendo DS and I got a chance to play Guitar Hero on it the other night. I actually had a blast playing it and I remember thinking to myself "wow, this game is just not possible on PSP without the touch screen."
It actually left me wanting to buy a DS!

Bottom line is that even though the PSP is more powerful than the DS on a technical level, the DS actually has more capability in terms of finding unique ways to play it's games.