the screen IS great. i love my psp. i use handbrake to encode movies to h.264 psp format and the results are gratifying.

However the psp definately is lacking in the formats it supports

More native handling of various video formats is necessary. And lossless audio playback is sorely missing too. PSP would definately gain market share in general with the first and among audiophiles with the latter.

I still have the psp "phat" and must say that as much as I thought I'd like it, it's a rather lackluster device.

What bugs me the most? one analog stick, that truly is the Achilles Heel.

3d games aren't what they should be on the console, I never truly found any reason to play videos on a psp, and for music, well, I have my ipod.

I used to use homebrew and the such, but after a few months of it's storage in the closet, accidentally upgraded to the latest firmware stupidly. So that's pretty much out of the question now.

But what bothers me the most is that even thought the games I've played are few:

chinatown wars, daxter, GOW: chains of Olympus, Secret Agent Clank...

I still found that despite such grand attempts at portable gaming, Sony hasn't found it's "stride" with handhelds.

And since I have a history of literally going back and forth between the ds and the the psp, I have better memories of playing the ds then I do with the psp.

All in all, an interesting article that isn't important for true analysis, but simply said statements by those of a respectable company.

SONY: seriously though, include two sticks and we'll see...

the PSP has sold 50 million units worldwide and this exec has the nerve to say "That was the downfall of the PSP" hmm so selling 50 million units means it failed?

PSP is a great device.

I think what is more important is what the Codemasters exec had to say about Natal and Move.

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Cheshire also explained why Codemasters isn’t currently working on any games for Microsoft’s controller free gaming project, Natal.

“I’m sure there’ll be games attuned to Natal and that’ll be great, but what you can’t do is back-engineer it into something you’re currently doing. And that’s where it’ll fail. There are a lot of companies saying they’ve got Natal stuff coming, but it’ll be bolted on to something they already had in development, probably.

“We’re never going to say no, but to be fair to us we’re focused on other priorities right now, and we’re not big enough to just try out a few things on Natal. We’re certainly looking, and we’ve got some great ideas, but it’s how you implement them.

“Sony’s sticks are quite good, too,” he added of PS3 Move. “They’re fun, and something physical you can hold in your hand, which I prefer to just your hands in the air. But it’s the same thing for software.”
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interesting...