Comments on: What’s Wrong with the PSP?

By: Juan Morales

Juan Morales — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:17:36 +0000

But then again they did deliberately made the PSP so it has to play under its capabilities and they also made the PSP go.

By: Juan Morales

Juan Morales — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:13:46 +0000

At the very least, you don’t have to delete your stuff on the PSP which you can just switch the memory card, on the iPod though, you are forced to delete stuff and still have to delete stuff when you want to install something which for most times you have to have 2x or more the required space that it says.

By: daniel

daniel — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:43:24 +0000

Pues, bien, el psp es para jugar, y en este campo no le debate al Iphone, los juegos nuevos que estan saliendo, mejoran cada vez mas, Yakuza es una imersión a un mundo, al momento de jugar, a uno no le interesa nisiquiera si el color del psp es morado, o quieren que tambien las pantallas de las xbox o ps3 sean touch, fifa se juega genial en el psp, god of war es un clon en el psp, litle bigplanet igual, no creo que no necesita nada, solo buenos programadores de juegos, y tal vez algun periferico

By: EdEN

EdEN — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:12:02 +0000

I do 80% of my gaming on my DS. Collection is 70 games strong and I will be adding another 20-30 between now and March 2011 at which point I better have saved for a 3DS and Nintendo better allow me to migrate my DSiware purchases over.

I’m really thinking about getting a used sub $100 PSP anf $200 worth of games at some point since there are several RPGs and strategy games exclusive to the console (remakes and new IPs) that I’m intrigued about.

By: Paranoimia

Paranoimia — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:09:58 +0000

There’s nothing at all wrong with the PSP – it’s piracy that’s had the biggest impact.

It plays games that other platforms can only dream of, and that, I think, is part of the problem. The games demand too much time to really be played on the move.

Do we need a touch screen? No, not really. Gyro sensors? No – we’ve had them since the SIXAXIS, and everyone says they’re not worth it. Vibration? Nope.

A second analogue stick (or something similarly effective) is about the only thing that’s required.

Remember how people whinged about the PSP battery life when it first appeared? If they’re going to up the power, that’s going to be even shorter. Add in all that other stuff, and you’ll be looking at 3 hours charging for 30 minutes play time.

I like the idea of a PSPhone – it would be the first thing that would make me consider upgrading my K750i – but I’m not sure how practical it would really be. What’s the point in having all that capability, when the battery won’t last a day? And if you reduce the gaming power to make the battery last longer… what’s the point of the device? You may as well stick with a standard PSP.

That said, I hope they can come up with something workable and worthwhile.