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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -10/+35The PSP is clearly the best portable multimedia device ever made. It's stylish, powerful, and can do quite a bit of cool stuff. It's just too bad that there is no CONTENT to make purchasing it as simple a decision as it otherwise would be.
From a hardware perspective, just about the only flaw I can think of for the PSP is the lack of a hard drive. In every other way, the design of this device is damn near perfect.
But still, they really need more good games on the damn thing. - Bara, on 10/12/2007, -4/+28The PSP has always interested me, but the price and lack of decent games (there are only like 3 or 4 must haves) has kept me away. If Sony drops the price to around $100-125, and gives us some better games, then I'd pick this up instantly.
- LesterKing, on 10/12/2007, -6/+19Too little. Too late.
- gfindlay, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14My friend got one of these as soon as they came out. It was impressive at first, but with the lack of games and ingenuity, it's just collecting dust on his desk. They made a bold move with the release of this handheld, but didn't plan enough beforehand.
- isthisnametaken, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11sounds like pure speculation to me.
I was convinced when I read "he's an analyst." - johnhummel, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14I looked up that article, and found this:
When it came to the PlayStation Portable, Sony's approach was simple: power. The do-everything portable brought high-quality 3D graphics to handhelds, in addition to music and movie playback. Sales of the unit have been able to keep up with the DS, although it has far fewer quality game titles than Nintendo's system. Standouts include Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and the puzzler Lumines. Much to Sony's chagrin, a prominent homebrew software scene has developed for the system. As of July, 20.02 million PSPs have been shipped, according to Sony.
20.02 *shipped*. This is a typical Sony ploy, because Nintendo always reports units *sold*, which is 21 million. So far, it is estimated that units *sold* is somewhere closer to the 10 million range, which if you check sales figures week by week where the DS outsells the PSP nearly 3:1 (sometimes 6:1 on some weeks), the DS is clearly far ahead.
For comparison:
10 million PSP units *shipped* Oct 2005: http://www.joystiq.com/2005/10/21/psp-hits-10-million-units-shipped-worldwide/
13 million DS units *sold* Jan 2006:
http://www.joystiq.com/2005/10/21/psp-hits-10-million-units-shipped-worldwide/
Etc. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13The PSP has been a colossal failure in Japan, where the Nintendo DS is outselling it on a very large scale. In the United States, however, while the PSP is still in second place, it's a very STRONG second place.
Here in New York, whenever I ride on the subway, I routinely see at least 2 people playing games or watching movies on PSP. I have only once ever seen someone whip out a Nintendo DS (or any other portable game device). While this is obviously anecdotal evidence, NPD's sales tracking statistics for North America (look it up through Google) demonstrate that the PSP is a very close competitor to the DS. - MatttK, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Depending on whom you ask? Uhh... such as... anybody except Ken Kutaragi?
- priceless721, on 10/12/2007, -6/+14what would be totally sweet would be if sony "unleashed" some good games
- 350Zed, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8If it comes with a min. 60GB HDD and DivX support, I'll chuck my 30GB Creative Zen Vision:M, stop shopping for a 60GB+ iPod, and actually seriously consider the PSP.
The lack of HDD to give it real MP3/PVP capabilities kept me away from the PSP in the first place. - aegis9975, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7>>Everyones cellphone already has a camera on it, you don't need a camera attachment for this portable system.
According to what's been reported the 1.3megapixel camera comes with a mic, so its primarily designed as a video chatting interface for the PSP online games. While I never use the camera on my cellphone I could see myself buying the camera if it allowed for video VOIP style calls or ingame chating. - Atom, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11Theyll come out as soon as we get our Cam and GPS accessories...
If that ever happens. - zeejay, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Homebrew won't do dick for the platform - it is a niche. A tiny, tiny fraction of the market at large even knows about it, let alone would go through the hassle. What will make-or-break the thing is what's on store shelves, price points, and functionality.
- mandarin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6This is inaccurate. It's the opinion of some analyst.
- twtmc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I can't wait till the price of flash drives goes down again. I can't believe I spent $130 on a 1gb stick a year ago. (that was cheap, it's msrp was $200). Frankly, the PSP will never be a great game system, but with people like Dark_Alex, it sure can become a good handheld piece of entertainment!
- jrizzo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Obviously the PSP concept is good: give us a portable with the abilities of a regular console. The problem is that it is un-utilized. While a little bulky, I used my PSP as a media player for about a year. The sound quality on the headphones and even the speakers is excellent, and removable media for an mp3 player is a great idea so you don't get bored with music. What we need though is a good OS on this thing that can let us use it as a small PDA/PC. The ability to do home brew natively would also rock (they are subduing is with updates right now). I feel like if they fixed these things the game market would recognize the added functionality and start developing better stuff.
However, the PSP has one undeniably good thing: anyone that has not played Loco-Roco does not know the meaning of "video-game" OR "fun". Greatest portable game ever. - mecole21, on 10/12/2007, -9/+14awesome, now i can get a new elongated hockey puck...
- chris9902, on 10/12/2007, -8/+13drop them in the bin I hope.
- Lane5slacker, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7While the hard drive one would interesting slightly (It would at least make the whole "portable media center" thing more applicable) the DS Lite is still more appealing.
- stealthboy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Ok, you're cool and all, but you and the other few folk that know how to do all this on your PSP does not mean it's a successful device. It has to appeal to a much broader market.
- starguy, on 10/12/2007, -6/+11My PSP has over 4000 rom games on it on a fast loading 4gb memory stic-- Obviously these people who say the PSP lacks games are completly CLUELESS about the PSP homebrew scene - downgrade to firmware 1.5 and have a blast. I have at least ten different emulators for different game consoles on it (snes, nes, mame, gfx, dgen, sega, gameboy, neogeo, and they were a snap to install- just drag and drop them over, or use an autoinstaller to install them all at once. There are so many games, you get bored of any one, you move on to the next without a second thought. Heck I even have a wireless webserver and ftp server on mine, you can drag and drop files wirelessly. I have a photo ipod (with 4000 songs, ipod linux and sharepod on it even), and I've seen the little nintendo machines. The PSP with homebrew CRUSHES them both for entertainment value - every time kids come over they fight over the PSP and don't even touch the ipod. The screen is gorgeous, the sound is great, the controls are great. It is a bit heavy because of the UMD drive, which someone should come up with a hack replacement for it with a harddrive. And if you crunch your your videos to AVS format, you can put 100 full length videos on it (40mb each!)... I'm talking like whole shows, like Adult Swim Cartoons, Twilight Zone episodes, everything. Just pop out your Games Duostick card, pop in a card with your videos on it, or pop in a different card with all your music. Of course, you can mix whatever you want on your duostick pro sticks, most people only buy one, but you could in fact have a tiny little stack of them for unlimited media storage.
- Hickeroar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4After buying and selling a lot of games, I now own 8 games for it that I really like. There are decent ones out there, you just have to read some reviews and such... The game library is getting better anyway.
- HardwareLust, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Unfortunately for Sony, unless they're going to add a second analog stick, this means exactly nothing. I don't need yet another device to watch movies on or listen to music; there are better (as in lighter, cheaper, more convenient *and* more robust) options for that.
What I wanted was something to play games on. Too bad Sony didn't have that in mind when they designed the damn thing. - staticneuron, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4
http://videogamecharts.com/page2.html
As far as Sony is concerned, shipped equals sold. Same thing with Microsoft. - ZeroMP, on 10/12/2007, -7/+10Everyones cellphone already has a camera on it, you don't need a camera attachment for this portable system. You don't need a keyboard attachment. GPS ... I don't know what to think about this - it would depend on the size of the attachment and how quick and easy it is to enable/disable.
Here is what the PSP needs:
** Longer battery life - spinning UMDs around and huge screens eat it up!!
** Load times suck balls in a portable (hard to fix this w/ UMD format I think)
** TOUCHSCREEN / Stylus would be much more convenient than carrying around a bulky-ass keyboard attachment - unless you already have your camera and GPS attachments in the massive PSP purse you carry around with about 3 extra battery packs. Don't let you be caught lost somewhere with a PSP GPS attachment if you have actually used the system to *gasp* play games since you've probably killed the batteries.
Stylus actually works quite well with an on screen keyboard and there is plenty of room to display one on that massive screen.
Here the solution for Sony is - once again: Do what Nintendo did...
/pukes - Mejogid, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9"just about the only flaw I can think of for the PSP is the lack of a hard drive."
You're forgetting a second analogue stick, which would make a lot of the games far easier to control and ultimately more enjoyable.
That said, a PSP with a hard drive and better battery life would wipe the floor with the iPod in just about every aspect apart from Music and navigation, and would allow Sony to place it as an iPod competitor as well as a DS competitor, justifying the higher price. - MatttK, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3The PSP might be doing okay now but if you take a look at what games are coming out for it, what's happening with the UMD market, and the growing popularity of the DS in North America, you'll see that the PSP simply has no future.
- SmokeN-DC, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2To make the PSP the best out there Sony need to do two thing but they wont
1. Use SD card not the expensive Sony memory sticks or lower the price
2. Make the UMD write able so you burn your own
That's it.
Screen looks better that an Ipod and wipe out pure is a great game to bad there are not more but shows the potential
well one more thing make the price of UMD movies cheaper $15 is a good price just not more expensive than a DVD - WhereAmI, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Apparently, Sony is going to be unleashing two new models of their currently struggling (depending on who you ask) PSP. Is this some sort of rebirthing strategy that Sony is planning for the PSP? Maybe they figure the PSP can use some of the publicity they 'll be getting from launching the PS3."
Of course, a Wii fanboy adding his own perception. PSP is awesome. Get one. - Hickeroar, on 10/12/2007, -11/+13As of July, the DS has sold 21.27 million units worldwide. The PSP has sold 20.02 million... The PSP isn't doing near as dismally as some people would have you believe... Yeah it's being outsold, but not by a very large percentage. On top of that, sales have been picking up over the past six months as the game library gets larger and more attractive games are released.
Source: http://images.businessweek.com/ss/06/10/game_consoles/index_01.htm?campaign_id=ds1 - tjdoom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2No pics, no clicks. If this is some blog with some rumor of the blogger's mother's friend's son's dog's mailman than no digg.
- modsuperstar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I find it rather amusing that they have done their best to stomp out the rampant piracy on the system. Now it seems odd to me that they would at this point even bother putting in a hard drive. Seems like a waste of time as people will circumvent any measures they put in and now have a nice hard drive to store all their PSP games. It almost seems to me that adding memory seems to be more of a shot directed at the iPod more then the DS, which for the sake of saying seems to be aiming in the wrong direction. People already bash the machine for having no content, yet they're focusing on expanding the memory to put music and media on the machine. How about they actually make some games people want to play and they might actually want to own one.
- ahuxley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Open it up like the ps2/3 to linux.
Add a mini Newton like keyboard and full kb support.
Let end users make it into a Newton with 3d gaming for free.
http://www.enfour.co.jp/newton/mp2100/feature.html - pathy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've had my PSP a couple of months now, and I'm sad to say, I've disgarded my DS for it.
Now, at first it was the honey moon period. The PSP is a VERY sexy looking thing, and watching a movie, or even some of the games on it is great. That, and I had Virtua Tennis with it, which is just awesome.
It started to dwindle in my tastes a little. I added newer games to it, buying Smackdown, Syphon Filter, Daxter, etc. All fun games... Of course, then the big thing happened.I downgraded.
Oh. Em. Gee. Homebrew changes everything about the PSP. Now, suddenly, I'm not carrying around a vast amount of games I want to play on little UMDs, or waiting for long loads. What do I have on my PSP right now? Well, I have iRShell, which runs in the background and let's me switch from games to it, and play music, etc, as well as using the iR as a remote... which is a little geeky and cool. I have ScummVM, loaded with Broken Sword 1 along with Sam and Max... I have DevHook, letting me run my UMDs which I've dumped in to .CSOs - Currently holding Metal Gear Acid 2 and Pro Evolution. I've got about 5 albums carrying around with me, too.
Of course, this is all possible due to the homebrew. While I'm at home, I can switch between all my games with the touch of two buttons. iR Shell lets me connect to my PC via Wifi, and use it as a memory card... And DevHook lets me switch between games, and then I have emulators, etc.
These things make the PSP so damn great to hae. I can use it around the house easily and play whatever game I want, and I can throw games, music, whatever, on to it when I'm going out. Going for a longer trip? I can just take my laptop and put all my PSP stuff on there, and suddenly I'm not carrying around a whole box of UMDs.
I really wish Sony would stop crushing the Homebrew that people make for the PSP, it just lets you do a lot with it.
(By the way, in regards to the DS, do not let 9 year old girls handle DSes. Not even phats. Somehow, she got Mario Kart STUCK halfway in and halfway out of the slot. It does not move at all. The touch screen has only the middle of it responding... She's destroyed it. I wept.) - bnolsen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I pretty much agree with you...homebrew makes this.
I got a psp about 4 months ago. Sadly about a month ago the laser assembly got stuck.
That's fine, force me to go with CSO's (which extend battery life!).
I just went to 2.71SE-A but since it won't play CSO's reliably, well, not much of anything reliably, I'm going to go back to 1.50
Sadly the normal PSP games are pretty much lacking. Hot Shots is pretty cool, other than that I really haven't found a game that doesn't end up feeling more like a chore to play. I guess back to DS to try the Dragon Quest Slime game - alaren, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4I don't understand. It's an awesome looking system with great capabilities, I've always admired it technologically. But I won't buy one until they have more than 3 or 4 good games, and I can access the homebrew and emulation scene without funky hacks!
Re-releasing a system variant seems silly. Just release more games! - Murdats, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My phone can play nearly all of them, and it was cheaper then a PSP
and It actually had a gps and I could type in webpages via touch screen keyboard
and being a 3g phone allowed video calls
so from what you have described you use your psp as a larger, more expensive and less functional version of my phone - AllenHSmilden, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Amen, I hate stuff like this. Only say it if its true. Or tell us in the title what you really mean.
- envy860, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I see Sony taking the same approach that it did with the PSP with the PS3. PSP, sure the hardware is pretty good, but it isn't a games device. "But there is homebrew". You shouldn't have to depend on homebrew as the only means for games. I disagree with Sony teaking every step possible to prevent homebrew, but homebrew should just be an option, and make even more games available. That said, it is a pretty good multimedia device. I havn't (and won't) buy movies for it, but it is alright (although finiky with formats) otherwise. I can totally see the PS3 beign the same way though: not much attention on games. Everything Sony has said up to this point backs thats up pretty well.
Also, I don't think adding 2 models would be like Nintendo releasing the DS lite. I think this would be adding features and leaving everyone else behind (PSP 2), not just tweaks. I also think that having 2 models for a handheld is rediculous. It somewhat makes sense for consoles, not handhelds. It bothers me more that Sony was giving Microsoft ***** about 2 SKU's for the 360 and now they might have 2 SKU's for not only PS3 but possibly also the PSP. Because that isn't confusing to the average consumer. I'm guessing the feature set between the two will be equally confusing. - zetsurin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3So whatever you don't support is therefore dying? (note the spelling)
- AllenHSmilden, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So with that in mind your saying I should buy a ps3 hoping homebrew will save it? No thanks brother. I will buy the ps3 but there better be good games! nanu nanu
- cds0528, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've always thought the PSP was great... but had two major problems, no "must-have" games, and the price. That's why I'm a happy DS owner :)
But seriously, if the PSP was the same price as the DS, and had some better games, I probably would've gotten it instead (or at least considered it). - HardwareLust, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1A "tiny little stack" of memory stick pro's = A "huge stack" of actual dollars!
- zetsurin, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4"But I won't buy one until they have more than 3 or 4 good games"
Welcome to last year. There are way more than that. Look at IGN. - timmay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.duggmirror.com
- sakuraz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Obviously there's no intellectuals here on digg...
- Rockarollr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1With all of the "requests" for PSP improvement that I've read so far (hard drive, internal memory, video output, keyboard attachment, etc.) it sounds more like people are wanting a handheld computer system rather than a portable gaming device from Sony.
Hey Sony, do you care to honor these requests? It sure sounds like you'd have a winner on your hands if your design team could get it right...
A 6.7 in (W) x 2.9 in (H) x .9 in (D) handheld VAIO maybe? - AllenHSmilden, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Nobody buys a device hoping novices and amatuer developers will support it, sure that is a good thing. But guess what I bought in the hopes of playing PSP games, not games from 5-20 years ago. I have a computer and emulator for that, and xbox live, and wii's virtual console, and sony's download service for that stuff.
p.s. also wanted to add playing homebrew doesn't help support sony at all your just encouraging the death of the psp - hitman47, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The use of proprietary memory sticks sucks, memory sticks are the most expensive flash media around.
- mrfreeziexp, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3At this point, I wouldn't buy anything from Sony. Quit screwing the consumers, then we'll talk.
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