The PSP Weekend Warrior: Who said the PSP was dead? |
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Originally posted on February 27, 2009
Again and again, over the past few months, we heard the PSP labeled as dying and, in some cases, already dead. Of course, Sony kept saying, "No it's not. Just wait until 2009!", but hey, we hardened gamers can recognize a line when we see one, right?
Turns out it wasn't just a line. Now the future of our beloved handheld seems pretty bright thanks to the announcement of a whole slew of big PSP titles that are all supposed to come out this year.
Software:
- LittleBigPlanet, Rock Band, Assassin's Creed, and MotorStorm: all coming to the PSP this year. Oh, and Hannah Montana too. Link.
- The first game to be detailed was Rock Band: Unplugged. Link.
- John Koller was in the news as well, revealing a few details about the new games:
- LittleBigPlanet will stick to create, play, share tenet. Link.
- Assassin's Creed a completely different game, unique to the PSP. Link.
- More AAA games to be announced in the months leading to E3. Link.
- Monster Hunter is popular in Japan. Too popular, in fact, that there's talk of another new PSP Monster Hunter game. Link.
- Sony is also courting Ready At Dawn for another go at PSP programming. Link.
- Hardware-side, rumors of a new PSP are still going strong:
- PSP-4000 incoming with new sexiness, sliding screen. Link.
- Shiny Entertainment's David Perry says the PSP2 is real and it won't have a UMD drive. Link.
- And here's John Koller's take on Perry's big reveal. Link.
- Europe's Go!Messenger service is shutting down, but the upside is that there are new features coming for Go!Cam. Link.
- And did you know that there's now a skin disease named after the PlayStation? Link.
This is it, boys and girls. Now that we know what to expect in the coming months, the waiting starts, and everybody knows that that's the hard part. So what do we do to pass the time until the AAA titles start rolling in? Keep playing, of course!
There are a few good titles coming along in March, most notably Resistance: Retribution and Phantasy Star Portable. You can keep tabs on what comes out when by checking out our weekly On Shelves post on Sundays.
If you're rocking a homebrew-enabled PSP, we have new homebrew release posts all the time on the QJ.NET PSP blog. There's also our Tuesday and Friday specials: the QJ QuickGuide and QJ.NET How-To, respectively. And of course, don't forget the QuickPeek and the Weekend Warrior every weekend.
Well, that's all the space we have this week. See you guys again next weekend for another issue of the PSP Weekend Warrior.
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Comments [refresh]
I am reserving one right now!!! WOOHOOO!!!!
Links all dead.
Who said the PSP was dead?
Well, quite a lot of devs and quite a lot of the public. Though its not as bad as what everyone thought - it was up against the DS. Nintendo's best selling handheld ever. So it was never going to do well against that. But even then it's only been in this last year or so that there has been ANY push at all.
PSN, PS3 franchises trickling down to it etc.
Not dead. Not on life support. It had just faded away and wasn't hitting its potential.
I'm sorry but the PSP, to me, IS dead.
I'm thinking of selling it and saving up for a PS3. When PS3 ISO's will hit the trackers I'll be the happiest guy in the world. It will mean there's a (real, public) method of playing ISO's. It will also mean the end of my social life (hardly if any).
But until then maybe I'll read the Bible. That's the extent of a possible PSP usage for me right now. Maybe.
Ports, ports, and more ports, though I can't see how you can screw up LittleBigPlanet . Dead or dying, at least no one can call the PSP a flop at this point.
PS: If you missed the title's joke, pronounce PSP's full name, less the "able".