The Playstation Portable handheld gaming system was first released in the United States on March 24, 2005, after being released in Japan the previous December. More importantly, the PSP found its way into my hands on December 25, 2007, in its second form, the PSP Slim/Lite. The ReelGamers editor quickly invested days into the internet, scouring for the greatest homebrew software that would enhance his portable system without corrupting and reducing it to its useless "brick" form. Half a year later, his PSP now acts as my GPS, a tutor in three different languages (French, Italian, German), a soon-to-be cell phone replacement (the wonders of Skype are highly underrated), and a digital photo album; not to mention a port of PC's SCUMMVM, allowing him to relive all his Monkey Island fan service memories.
More surprising than the device's versatility, was the fact that he seemed to be the only one in his city to have one. Sure, on a rare occasion he would spot another user on the bus and be struck with an immediate sense of brotherhood, but for every PSP packed into a student's backpack or stuffed against a row of textbooks atop a dorm headboard, there were ten DS's of various color schemes floating around. The idea of the Playstation Portable just doesn't seem to appeal to the core markets in which it is supposed to be competing, and it seems destined to be just the latest contender to fall beneath Nintendo's foot, despite its obvious advantages.
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I am not so sure I buy into this. Wasn't the PSP extremely hard to find all Christmas? Doesn't it still sell really well? I though it was doing a bang up job in Japan with monster hunter. I am not a portable fan, but I don't see how that constitutes failure or that it needs to pick up sales. You just can't compare ANYTHING to DS.
It's been killing in sales all over the world for the last year, man. What is this junk?
It's a decent handheld device but it isn't looked at as a gaming handheld to the majority that use it. Nothing wrong with that at all as you can see the hardware sells and sells well.
Japan seems to be doing the same thing these days. I loved the GBA, but the DS was pretty stale to me. And I bought all the "hot" games to know.. The best game by far is Mario Kart DS. PSP has better games (way better scores).
It's a great device but the games are so easy to steal..so sony needs to fix that if they want it alive another 2 years