its only going to get better after ps3 is out becuase right now SONY has all there attention on PS3 after it lunches they will get back to PSP.

It's all about the games. As long as developers are too afraid to make compelling original IP's on the PSP it will remain under-utilized.



I'm not saying it's dead, largely because at this point if the devs started kicking out good games it'd be back quicker than you think.



I will though say the PSP is in a coma....and until it shows it's not braindead we're soon to pull the cord.

speak the truth

Man that sucks cause i stoped playing the ps2 for once and now all about my psp. Either is died or is dieing they better release FF7 NOW!!!

if u check gamesradar, they are known for posting fraudulent claims that gets deleted after they were embarassingly proven wrong. no need to worry what they think. the company that they quoted only made 1 psp game. Try asking Rockstar Games and see if they think the psp is a failure. LOL!

Sony needs to pull its head out o its Ass nao if they don't want to fail with the PS3 as well.

What the ***** was shown for DS that was even remotely interesting? Pheonix Wright? LOL, yeah right. The fact is that PSP gets more and more good games then DS, even if DS is selling more then it. Podcast phails.

I'm assuming you've never heard of anything made by Square Enix not titled "Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core."

OH god, the only way a psp could ever fail is the developers. They make *****ty games and never really add more times to making it and fixing glitches. Why dont you guys fix some glitches from Prince of Persia, or Glitches from Syphon Filter Dark Mirror. I could see those black hole glitches.



Even if there is homebrews on the PSP, look at the PS2. It have homebrews and its lasting. Its the games that the developers make that make a console good.



Well copy games, you see alot of PSP copy games being traded, Look at the HD loader, People could rip ps2 game on the Hard drive and play them and return them from blockbuster or what not. So it not really a console/handheld, thats the problem, its the *****ty developers.

the only thing the psp is good for is homebrew...if sony embraced homebrew it would outsell the ds 10-1 but $ony is stupid and thinks that making the first portable gaming device capable of running unsigned code is dumb! WELL $ONY U ARE THE ONES WHO ARE DUMB!!!

anyone know which cover that is? maybe a link to where i can get it?

developers saying that the psp failed is like the horse rider blaming the horse for failing to perform because the horse rider gave it *****ty food.

All my psp is used for is emulation... thats it - most of the games are uninteresting as the devs decide to make cheaply made crap. (I'll point at EA for a global player in for that). There are some good games, (lumines, OR2006, etc), but once youve got them 5 games thats it.

PSP is the ONLY reason sony isnt FÜCKED right now...

i dont care for the games sony makes

i only care about homebrew

like psp revolution, and many others

Once they make a 2.8 downgrader the psp hasnt failed me.. oh yeah and I dropped my psp and now the analog moves by itself and is retarded and the speakers don't work from dropping it.. they should make it more durable!

They try to sell us overpriced UMD movies that are mostly box office bombs the studios are trying to scratch together some profit on...



Of course that fails.



They release mostly ports and spin-offs of games most already own on the ps2 with only about 4 or 5 games being worth buying. LCS, Syphon filter, Daxter, and Socom come to mind. What a list!



Big surprise people aren't rushing out to buy them.



Meanwhile the DS continues to offer more original and fun games for its innovative touch screen handheld.



PSP's unfortunately the gamegear 2.0. Oh well. There's still homebrew. Suck it, Sony. You fumbled the ball.

the games for psp arent that great... riddled with bugs... sure. and if sony allowed sdk to be put out to homebrew devs there would no longer be a need to downgrade... if homebrew was possible with no nasty hacks or anything y would u want to downgrade? i say psp isnt dead... yet. the psp needs more variety. by variety i mean more colors (black is just too boring) if i could get a blue, or red psp that would make me buy another one.



a tip for any umd game dev... i think: there should be bugfixes for games downloadable via infrastructure. only allowing u to play online if u have the updated game files embedded into ur savefile. its only a thought.

YAy! Its nice to know im not the only one suffering.. I tried to fix the damn thing myself today like I know what im doing and lost a screw and now it opens up all easy one the left side cause the screws.. but Yeah it definitely sucks.. and I got nothing accomplished if i wanna hear sound i need to put headfphones in.. why thats as crappy as an iPod... But at least you have PSP2TV on urs!

YAy! Its nice to know im not the only one suffering.. I tried to fix the damn thing myself today like I know what im doing and lost a screw and now it opens up all easy one the left side cause the screws.. but Yeah it definitely sucks.. and I got nothing accomplished if i wanna hear sound i need to put headfphones in.. why thats as crappy as an iPod... But at least you have PSP2TV on urs!

Umm dude im gonna PWN ur mom

DUDE I THINK WE ALL GET THE FREAKIN POINT! OKAY!!! ITS THE DEVELPOR FAULT WAHHH WAHH WAHH WHO GIVES A *****TTTTTTTT... QUIT SAYING THE SAME THING AS EVERYONE ELSE CAUSE UR TRYIN TO SOUND SMART!!

The only people that have failed are devs. The PSP can do a LOT of stuff, I MEAN A LOT. Look at R*. Look at what they have done! R* done LCS, witch wasn't that good but it pushed the PSP to its limits, or so we thought. Now VCS has pushed those standards a LOT. The devs just need to shut up and do what R* is doing because R* is doing a kick ass job with the PSP.

everyone just chill this is only a speculation or worse a paid campain by nintendo to make people avoid buying PSP, I won't be surprised with all the sucky games PSP has it's still glamorus and no matter how manny people say It will succed or it will fail, all we have to do know is sitdown and STFU and wait for the holiday season cuz that will decide who is the winner(s) all these speculation are just cheap stabs at PSP and Sony at large

psp will be dead cause of you fuc....homebrewers !! and ds is outselling psp cause japanese like stupid games ! thats all

The sole reason I got the PSP was for homebrew since I knew that it would be kick ass to carry around all my emulators and classics.

Three words Silent Hill Origins. That is all the PSP needs to get out of this slump. And a little bit of Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops by the side.

I can touch my psp, i can interact, I CAN PLAY MOVIES,MP3's, AND GAMES, unlike DS, only games and some animation... psp should be dominate, soon with video, my god, i think the psp is like a volcano, start strong, died down... and soon to erupt, i say ***** them, psp is awsome, they probly dont have one to know about how good it is

@ Chavagnatze,, Whats with the ill attitude?

Do you just rove around the forums looking for people to correct. You need to chill a little and stop takeing things so seriously.

I STRONGLY DISAGREE- THE PSP HAS SUCSEED IN MANY WAYS-- IF U DONT BELIVE ME---------ASK SONY

I would like to say this is just a market slump and everything will be fine. But we will all probibly be talking about the same thing this time next year. (why has the psp failed to take over the handheld scene, Its depressing really..

with every game u enjoy without paying the real price, you are adding to the statistic that the developers look at to decide how much resources to pour into a game?



The less games purchased when a developer makes a game, the less initiative they have to make better or even bother making them. EA's criticized the platform before, R* was lucky with GTA's because of the exploit. I don't think they would have managed to sell that much copies if it were'nt for the famous exploit.



I'm not saying you should put down ISOs immedietely, u can't quit cold turkey on free stuff. BUT JUST PLEASE BUY MORE GAMES IF YOU ENJOY THEM

To be completely honest, I wonder why people keep saying that Sony is just coming out with ports while Nintendo creates innovative titles. Ok, yes, Sony does port a lot of games to the PSP, but I love it because most of them I had never owned. On the other hand, look at the gameboy advance by Nintendo, most of the good games that were out for it or are still being released are ports of old nes/supernes games. Instead of hearing people complain about ports on that system, I heard people praising them. On the other hand, people cry out their anger towards sony ports? I don't get it.



And to be honest, I've never understood what the hype was about the DS. Don't get me wrong, it has a few games that I would love to play for it, but people keep telling me that I should have got a DS because it has a better game library. I looked at the DS's library, and I probably would have bought Mario Kart, Metroid, and maybe another three or four games all together. For PSP I own ninteen games, and I have plans on getting another twelve soon, meaning I'll have over 30 psp games that I'll love, compared to the maybe 5 or 6 I would have got on the DS. To add to it, I couldn't have listened to music/watched movies, etc on the DS. Not very appealing for me anyways.



The PSP can also run homebrew of course, which just adds to the game library. All I could care about are emulators though, as I really haven't played a good homebrew game yet, except for ports like Doom. 1.5 isn't really a big deal to me now that I have it on my TA-82...I thought it would be...but now that I can emulate 1.5 on my psp, I have only been interested in running SNESme and Dgen1.7. Anyone have any suggestions for some good/addictive homebrew?



So the way I see it, PSP is not dead and will last as long as if not longer than the DS. I'm a little disappointed in how many people want to run ISO's on their psp though (unless they owned the game), as it is only hurting it's future. It's funny how many people can afford a $200 psp, and can't afford to pay $30-40 dollars for a game every now and then. (Heck, I even see games for $10 - $20 brand new now more and more every day...and they are pretty good titles too).

THe harsh reality about ISo's are that even if a group of people could be reached on this piracy issue, there are too many people tempted by the idea of getting something for nothing. No matter how many people see they light, there will always be that many more that do not, And as I see it a small number of people that stand for the noble cause that is legit gameimg. just isnt enought to stamp out the problem.

Faced with the staggering numbers of how popular software piracy is. Theres nothing anyone can do to to supress the piracy scene. (sadly)



My opinion on game piracy is simple, If i cant beat em, i may as well join em.

pirates kill psp and americans like stupid games

Earlier today the brand-spanking-new Pokemon games, Diamond and Pearl, were released in Japan. Nintendo shipped two million copies, one million of each game, to retailers all over Japan. However, in only a matter of a couple of hours, ALL of the copies were sold. All of them. Along with the two million games sold, Nintendo also made out with over 500,000 new Nintendo DS handhelds sold.



http://www.destructoid.com/pokemon-diamond-pearl-sell-out-japan



And if anyone wants to say anything about the PSP beating DSL in America or somewhere else (Dunno if it is or not don't really care just thought this article was crazy) then that's nice, but worldwide is truely all that matters. /end sounding like a fanboy

They´re right!



A month ago i started thinkin´ about buying a DS, because there are more good titles for it.

I haven´t bought one yet, but i will, though i´m not gonna throw out my PSP, i still love PSP-Homebrew!!

gamesradar, heavily biased, towards sony and other microsoft competition. End of. dont listen to them, just a rumour mill

i say this is bull****, first these guys aren't even news worthy, bunch of fake bloogers thinking that they are real news reporters. just look at the psp release list for the psp for the us and jpn. both are way bigger than the DS and that's just counting the games! after mgs comes out more people are going to program better and cooler games. the power of the psp hasn't been unleash yet...

All in all I REALLY don't like that at QJ.NET you guys are publishing SO MUCH negative tone PSP news that are wither based on:



1. Rumours (ie. how does the Gamesradar know every developers opinion??? did they make a poll? I doubt that!) OR



2. Sales figures in Japan (I believe everyone has got the point of Japan being the difficult place for others than Nintendo, so lets get over it, won't we?)!



3. Some stupid fights about who did/stole what in the HB scene. Perhaps you can create a "release debate" forum topic... but come on... in your front page news:

"...uups, it seems this dev was doing that and the other one was doing that instead..."?



I don't know why you do it at QJ? Do you just enjoy shooting at your own leg or something?



PSP IS and WILL BE a very capable piece of art as a gaming device and as a portable media center, don't try to ruin the experience from people who are still considering joining the portable revolution.



Cheers,

j

ds can browse online ON A BROWSER THAT COST LIKE 50 BUCKS AND CAN'T EVEN PLAY FLASH AND HAS WORSE LIMITATIONS THAT THE PSP WEB BROWSER! i HATE when retards go like i going to pay money for the opera browser bc the ds is better. fu**ing retards they don't realize that the psp can do that s*** for FREE and BETTER than the ds. not only that it can play a ton of s*** that the ds can't even do. yeah you need a ms stick so what you bought a 250 system and can't come out with f****** 45 bucks to buy a f****** 1gb ms duo wait i forgot that **** comes with the 250 system!! not only that f****** sony were smart enough to come out with a GPS system too. i don't see the ds being mounted in my car for a GPS system that would cost be less than 150 dollars! don't forget the camera too i know some retard is going to buy that s***! hey people bought the f****** game boy camera with the retarded printer which was a piece of black & white s*** didn't they?! so the psp is not dead by a long shot f****** retarded *****es.

For my own particular comment on this, I totally agree. The PSP has failed. It's chock full of useless ***** (Internet Browser, anyone?) and is constantly fighting the fanbase it has (TA-082 MoBos for one, Constant 'upgrades' for another.)



Sony really *****ed this system up badly. I recall reading a quote off of a site somewhere, and I wholeheartedly agree. It went along the lines of this:



"With the PSP, Sony could have had the next iPod. They could have created an extremely large culture devoted to it, and they could have let it constantly be upgraded with awesome features. Alas, Sony *****ed that up."



As an entertainment medium, it's pretty poor. Wanna watch movies on yo' PSP? Buy a bigger Mem Stick. Then you gotta convert the file to a ***** format, and have it be at a *****ty resolution for it to work properly. You can view photos too! Oh cool, now I can carry around those photos of that party last weekend, and show everybody how totally *****ed up we all got! Right. I think the Photo Function is the most flexable out of all of them.



Music works too, but the speakers make the PSP useless without a sweet set of cans to plug into it. Can't crank the tunes in a public place, because the speakers will be overcome by the sound of that fat guy sitting next to you ripping a huge goddamn fart. I suggest you move outta there as soon as possible. You can do it, the system's portble!



Game wise, it's only got a handful of impressive content. The DS has only a bit of content too, but at least they try. The only two games i'm looking forward to right now is Silent Hill and Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops. Lumines II was ruined when they announced they were putting ***** hip-hop music in there to broaden the horizons. I'll take Every Extend Extra for those $30 instead, alex.



In closing, yes, the PSP has failed. This isn't nessicarily a bad thing, though. If the PSP is finally given up on as a platform, that means that the amount of homebrew will rip through the system like the devil himself. Look at the Dreamcast! The Devs didn't really get the ball rolling on that until after it was dead. Next thing you know, it's got a homebrew community that's larger than most any other i've seen before. Look at the bright side, look at the bad side. Which one seems better to you?

you can tell sony lost interest in the psp some time ago, its all about ps3 as far as they can.

Its a good job for the homebrew devs there the ones keepin the psp alive as far as im concerned.

all you need is devhook, devhook, and devhook. yeah i don't blame sony for trying to stop hackers from craking their system with hw and sw updates because i wouldn't want my product to pirate my software but at least they been adding decent function to every firmware. ta082 is already cracked by darkalex and you can run pmpmod avc videos in full resolution using 1.5 emulation. put on a pair of decent headphones and you are in movie nirvana! also a 1gb of ms duo doesn't cost more than 70 bucks heck you can buy 4 gigs for 84 bucks now apperantly and that's cheaper than most 4gb usb drives.

As long as I can play my old SNES and Amiga Stuff and Tekken on my PSP, I don't care if it's declared dead by some idiots.



At least IF Gran Turismo 4 is ever going to release, and the official PSX-Emu is coming soon.



Gonna get me a frickin' 4gb-stick for less than 100 bucks and play FF 7-9 as well, woohoo.

The developers have failed not the PSP. Those guys at GamesRadar r proud bastards and fools. The PSP is 100 times better than that child system DS. Nintendo DS irritates me*vomits*.

If this system has "failed" then why is the new PSP bundle and PSP games being sold well at Walmart?

***** YOU GAMESRADAR THEY DONT NOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE PSP I HATE THEM SO MUCH CANT THEY JUST BURN IN HELL; I WANT TO HACK IN THEYR SITE AND RUIN IT ALL:

did everyone forget about gta vcs? that game is gonna be amazing!

gamesrader are not developers wtFF. there jus nintendo fanboys... they suc.

psp is not dead.

I love when idiots declare PSP a failure, when the fact remains that it has surpassed every handheld in sales that took on nintendo before it.



Plus There's no telling how great the four or five DS games will be. Remember star fox DS? Everyone was thrilled about it and it has been getting poor scores, and pretty much nobody likes the controls. I'm not saying every title on PSP is golden, but it's really retarded to claim a game great when it's not even out yet.

to me the ds has failed becuase the psp is like a lot better and can do better stuff

It's scary that the developers are saying this as it's up to them to make the PSP phail or succeed.

the psp has a lot of potential. Dev's just aren't using it. the ds on the other hand has a only a few great games that can keep my attention for more than 5 minuites.



and if sony embraced homebrew in a future firmware update they could run into some real legal problems because of the emulators running on it. Mainly things like GBAPSP and N64 because now nintendo is going to be offering n64 games on the wii and the GBa is still out on the market. if they allowed homebrew they could get their asses sued

i don't even own a psp or a ds anymore. i sold my psp because it was half broken and i sold my lite because it sucked. and the only half decent game out for Ds that isn't "kidified" is Castlevania and resident evil.

and i for one don't like how everything that is made for the DS is "kidified" ,hardcore gamers like me aren't kids" we don't want to play kidified games"

Compare the DS games to the PSP...

DS games = 5-12 year old market (all those kiddy looking freaky games)

PSP = Every one else (Gore, death and racing)



Which age group buys all the handheld games... The 5-12 year olds.

They like kiddy, jump on box games. IF devs just looked at the DS games of nature they will surely understand.



Maybe when sonic arrives.......

Sure all the PSP games in the coming future are brilliant (ie: MOH). But it's those little kids who buy 50 games in one go.

I agree with #10. Really, Microsoft is pathetic. Gamesradar is owned by Microsoft, and has been used to spread anti-Sony FUD before (remember the three false rumors spread about the PS3 around E3, ALL originating from Gamesradar?)



This kind of marketing makes me despise Microsoft. I've been interested in buying a 360 for Forza 2 (should it prove to be a good enough game), besides my sure thing purchase PS3. Heck, I even thought about buying a 360 if Sony somehow fails to deliver with the PS3 (for instance, delay the European launch once more), but really, when Microsoft pulls stunts like these, I have a very hard time doing anything to support them.



The PSP is a great success in terms of hardware sold, and I do wonder if the software sales are slightly suffering from more devhookers/illegal iso users, but all in all I have seen sales figures, and in general the revenue on PSP is higher per unit sold than for DS games, so that the total earnings usually make good on the DS competition to about 70%.



In fact, like on the DS, several games on PSP have sold more than 1 million already (Wipeout, for instance, which also has 500.000 downloads), and new big titles are being released all the time, with actually very good ratings too (higher on average than DS games over a higher amount of titles).



I think that before everything else, Microsoft is worried that the PSP is going to make a difference in the 360 vs PS3 war, because Microsoft don't have a handheld that can deliver such cool 'remote play' features as the PS3 has for the PSP.



The new network distribution setup as well as the PS3 interconnectivi ty are going to be a big boost for PSP. Especially the E-Distribution thing is going to add a lot of cool stuff, downloadable applications for your memory stick is going to be a lot like a legit form of homebrew, but with some much more professional applications and games thrown into the mix.



In short, this article is FUD, plain and simple.

qj is boring and has run outa news!!! hahaa crap.....

maybe planetpsp.org has better news (obviously)

we love anti-piracy ses qj!!! hahah noobs



it's all about hacking and hexing.....



p.s. someone hack this site with a trojan to their servers and stuff like that,...



remember that article on pspjunk.net getting hacked with trojan;s!!!



someone do it to this site as it suxs qj butt !!!!#



the ps3 news int ever news cuz ive read it all days before so stop making up your own stuff that is false information otherwise you'll have a DS up yourr asss



sorry!!! you already have *****ling qj net staff wankers boloks *****faces!!!!

Hey 100, this isn't QJ saying the PSP failed, it's DEVELOPERS saying the PSP failed, and QJ doesn't even necessarily agree! But alas, this is old news; the PSP failed a long time ago. The homebrew scene is kicking ass, but there's been very little in terms of official games. It has nothing to do with the PS3; it started long before Sony began to focus on the upcoming console.

Takes the piss if they have given up. No games.. No homebrew for me(2.80 fw :@). Suppose i won't be buying from $on`/ again then.

It's failed, get over it.

The PSP has become nothing more then a PS1/PS2 PORT-machine.



Most games are rehashes or straight-up ports. There's nothing even remotely unique on the way.

Sony needs to take a page from Microsoft - MS allows Windows to run anybody's software, and 91% of the PLANET uses Windows PC's...



Homebrew isn't hurting any Software developers for Windows PC's. Last I checked, World of Warcraft had over 6 million subscribers....



Sony needs to let the PSP be OPEN to ANY software - let the morons brick their PSP's if they aren't careful. The people who brick PSPs are the same ones who download "SUPER GAME CHEAT" programs which are really viruses...



There's already PSP emulators on the PC now - maybe Sony should wake up and realize it's never gonna stop and just let Homebrewers do their thing - cause Homebrew actually SELLS PSP's, not UMD movies.

To tell you the truth I haven't read all of the comments far too many to read, but I think that PSP is only starting to grow now instead of failing. If you look at the quality of games it is just growing. Vice City stories is coming out and that is already enough reason to get the PSP. I know my friends have been waiting for a downgrader and have gotten PSP's now that its out. I would really wait another year and then judge whether or not the PSP has really failed.

I think the failure can be attributed, at least for myself, to the updates. Prior to recent developments, you were unable to play the new games (legally, of course) unless you were willing to forfeit the availability of the homebrew on FW 1.5. Although somewhat hipocritical since I do not believe in the use of bootlegged UMD's, I cannot pass on my portable Genesis, Nintendo and Super Nintendo amongst many other useful homebrew applications. As a result, my PSP UMD library is rather thin. I'm sure some will disagree with this point of view, especially now with DevHook and of course, eLoader, but this has had an impact at least on myself. To state that the PSP is a complete failure, I would have to believe that it is heading the way of the Dreamcast, that the bootleggers have sunken another ship.

What about Voice Over IP? SOCOM: FTB can handle it, so why hasn't Sony included the functionality into the firmware? Then perhaps I could consider doing without my mobile telephone, and thus wouldn't be carrying a device that already allows me to actually TAKE pictures and store them easily, something entirely redundant in the PSP, given all modern mobile phones can do it anyway (and record video...) and don't require you to piss about with a USB lead in the process.



And here's my main gripe - what about the games? I've played dozens and dozens, as I used to work for a PSP magazine, and not one single game holds my interest whatsoever. The only even vaguely innovative games are GTA:LCS (which isn't revolutionary in terms of gameplay, and is only notable for the impressive use of the PSP's hardware), WipEout Pure (for the downloadable content, one of only a very small handful to use this feature, and a feature that is no longer being supported, as mentioned in a previous QJ article), and SOCOM: FTB for the Infrastructure mode support (again, one of very few to support Infrastructure gameplay).



All three games are relatively unplayable when on the move, due to any sort of bump or jolt during a car/bus/train journey will cause you to miss a headshot or collide with a wall, fundamentally missing the basic point of the console. They are trying to be "home console" games on a hand-held, a pointless exercise as you can simply *play games on your PS2 or PC if you are at home*.



The PSP has a fundamental problem with it's D-pad, which mean a massive number of units make games which use the d-pad totally unplayable. This killed Darkstalkers: Chronicle, and seriously hurt the playability of several other titles. I had to open up my PSP (voiding the warranty in the process) and use a piece of margarine tub and glue to "raise" the D-pad and solve the problem... A games console which requires surgery in order to be able to play games on it can ONLY be called a failure.



Where are the MMPORPGs for the PSP? It's real innovation - native TCP/IP connectivity via WiFi - is barely utilised. Where is the added content? Where are the fixes? Where are all the games with infrastructure support? Starwars Battlefront 2 doesn't even have it!



Nearly all of the innovative games feel "small" and half-baked. Metal Gear Ac!d was innovative, but painfully linear, full of tiny rooms. SOCOM: FTB had only a handful of easy missions, and while the multiplayer functionality was exeplary, any replay value it might've offered was totally undercut by the fact that you may as well just play SOCOM: 3 on the PS2, which any fan of the game would have anyway.



EA has only offered cut-down ports of their "daddy console" titles, many of which are barely optimised for the PSP, and certainly not thought out. None could really be called "games in their own right." Ironic considering the only two games that have any replay value for me are PGA golf and Tony Hawk's Underground 2: Remix. Neither of which are original or innovative in their use of the PSP's potential.



The *only* game I am looking forward to is Yu Gi Oh (how lame is that?!?), and even then I am prepared for disappointment, as I can almost guarantee it is going to be crippled so that Konami can extort the maximum amount of money out of people with dozens of sequels (assuming the PSP doesn't die before then) when they could quite easily use Infrastructure mode to download expansions to the card database, and guarantee truly MASSIVE sales of the game that way.



Apart from that, not a single title on the list to the right fills me with any hope whatsoever. You can pretty much guarantee that all of them will be cut-down half-assed versions of games that you may as well get on a *real* console.



Sony dropped the ball when it comes to the PSP, and only a couple of developers have been persuaded to even tentatively pick up the fumble. GT4, FF7, whatever. Even if they exceeded my expectations (itself pretty easy...), I think they will be too little to

PSP has been dead since its realease imo. I love my PSP for homebrew and emulators but the high cost and like only 10 if that good games really isnt gonna convince someone to buy one or convince a company to make a high profile game for it. I have never seen any1 else with a psp but my brother. I see so many college students playing a ds lol almost makes me embrassed to pull out my psp and play in public lol. Nintendo has and always will own the handheld market sony just doesnt make good games. Nintendo and Square Enix make the best games imo and neither of these companies are making games for the psp(except Final Fantasy Crisis Core which imo is going to be stupid if it ever releases). The PSP is what would have happened to the PS2 if the ps2 didnt have any Square Enix titles imo.

Yes, let's see here:



1. The games, regardless of how many bits can be processed at once, are on the whole terrible. Generally they are inferior copies of mediocre PS2 games. The fact that they come on UMDs is neither here nor there.



2. UMD movies bite. They are often abridged, they are generally more expensive than DVDs (although, just like in the early 80s computer games crash, they are finding their way into bargain bins at an alarming rate), and in every conceivable way they are inferior to watching a movie on a DVD. There are portable DVD players that are cheaper and superior in terms of display quality and size. There are very few circumstances where watching a movie on the PSP is anything more than inconvenient.



3. WiFi Internet access is redundant. Very few games use it, and most allow (or even require - Championship Manager for example) you to download stuff with your PC and transfer it across using the USB link-up anyway. Nearly all hotspots in the UK charge additional costs to access them, and in what conceivable way is it more practical to go out specifically to use your PSP in one of the few hotspots available for free than it is to merely go to somewhere that you can use a real PC for anyway?



4. Mp3 capability is redundant. Telephones, personal MP3 players, etc etc all do these things already, and won't leave you unable to play games on the PSP at the end of it all. I ended up wiping all mp3s off my PSP because it wasn't practical to use an expensive PSP as a cheap mp3 player.



5. The screen is nothing special. A significant proportion of UMDs are in 4:3 aspect ratio anyway, and many of the ones "corrected" for 16:9 suffer from poor pixelation at full size anyway. Yes it makes the games look pretty, but as the games generally vary between boring and just outright unplayable, that isn't very impressive.



6. The RSS capability was feeble when I was using it under 2.6. It was far from stable, and in each case would've been easier to download the mp3 file and play it that way. Really, who finds themselves in a situation where they can get access to a podcast from a PSP, but cannot get access to the content easier and more conveniently in some other way? I have to go out of my way to access the internet using the PSP, and if I use my home wifi network, I may as well use my PC to access things.



7. Location Free players didn't really make it to the UK, so it is generally one of the most redundant features every seen in any computer console or system. I'd never heard of it until I saw an article explaining how the PSP can use Location Free to play PS2 games (somewhat impractically). No-one I have ever met, no matter how much a tech-head or game head has even come close to smelling location free, let alone using it with their PSP.



8. "Picture viewer" - Hah... A £200 photo album? People use mobile telephones for that sort of thing, and they are much more convenient, due to being able to transmit and share information (movies, not just photos) across networks without requiring a wifi connection, as well as actually record them.



I cannot think of any conceivable situation where I would ever use my *PSP* as a photo album. "Yeah, I knew in advance you wanted to see this picture, so rather than e-mail it to you, or send you a link to photo bucket, or show you on the digital camera's display, or print it out, I thought I'd get out my USB cable, charge up my PSP, transfer it across and store it on my memory stick. Even though it would've been easier to use the camera in my mobile phone to do it in three seconds flat, using a device I take everywhere I go anyway and cost a fraction of the price of my PSP, and has longer battery life."



9 & 10: "Someday maybe never" developments aren't indicative of the console's "success". Both will cost *extra* money on top of the initial outlay for the console, and this only to bring it up to the standard of mobile phones that everyone owns already. This doesn't address the fact that these expansions will rende

nothing to do with this topic, but what is the screen protector being used in the picture and how does it compare to the screen films?

so i have to buy a PS3,a game for it,and a game for my psp in order to enjoy my psp?



that idea stinks!

then everyone goes on about how psp will be great once GTA comes out...

well it's been a year,where's the greatness?

the ONE thing that would ahve made GTA great was online multiplayer,and guess what?

we still aren't going to get it.



2 years and nothing great has happened for this thing beyond emulation.



2 years!

even the ps1 and ps2 didn't take this long to warm up.

360 is popping out great games,DS was a tad bit of a stinker at first but they picked up the ball in less than a year with online games and better quality games.

i mean DS is getting Final Fantasy 3 (already has 4 and 5 and 6 are due out soon for GBA along with 1,2,and tactics)



i remember when i grabbed my psp on launch day at wal-mart in the snow "this will be great" then they delayed GTA,Gran Turismo,Metal Gear was stupid,Ridge Racer was a joke...Lumines was cool but no Tetris.

I also bought a DS at launch,gotta say Mario64 DS was horrible and played like sludge.



so basically this psp firmware update better come soon and it better blow me outta the water.



oh yeah and Sony has finally made me go from a launch day buyer to a mid-april waiter after this overpriced blunder.

im happy with my psp i really dont care what the people at GR has to say i bought my psp for a reason and thats to play games on the go

Face it - Nintendo won.



They get all the cool game contracts because developers don't like the stupid UMD format and the crappy loading times when they can use cartridges and have almost no load times.







The DS is just an easier, cheaper platform for making games. And Sony is only concerned about keeping Homebrew down, not promoting and producing for the PSP.



Sony sucks, their attitude sucks and I hope their overpriced PS3 flops too.

"It's true that the PSP has reached the same point as the Gamecube, in that it's sold the same number of units as the GC, of course it's only taken 2 years to do what took the GC 5 years. It's also the biggest selling non-Nintendo handheld of all time, more than doubling the sales of the Game Gear, sales it took Sega 8 years to achieve."



it actually hasnt, the gamecube sold 20 million units, while the psp only shipped that ammount and sold only about 13 million, judging by the lower and lower sales considering the next gen systems are coming out it might take the psp just as long as it took the gamecube to sell 20 mil.

its true i have a DS myself but i dont really like it..itz so weird

like the screen is so small, i hate using the stupid other screen..but i admit DS have sum pretty kool games! and i still like it, but look at all the games PSP can play! thatz sooo kool!! and plus i heard you can download and play games on PSP 1.50 version THAT JUST AWSOMEEEEEEEEEE EE!!!! you have 2 spend no money..all u have 2 do it by like a 2 gig memory stick..which cost like 130$ in canada in futureshop and u can play games and wen ur done with dem delete dem. and you have ur space back and look at all the money u just saved. like 3-4 games cost like umm..150-200$ just imagine how much money u save and plus of all the emulators too i mean SNES games arent that much but there hard to find...i am a DS onwer myself i love my DS still..but PSP its way more kool and plus u can even play music!! now thatz SICK!!



A ds is very good and i love mines

but all u DS onwers u guys have 2 admit PSP is better than the DS by like 10 miles! its just that u guys own a ds so u feel itzz the best and same with psp owners! but if u had both none of u wud gave a dam lol! im not saying anyone one of them arent fun to play!

but psp is just better..



DS 8/10

PSP 9.5/10 ( i wud of gave it a 10 but just cuz of peopel who have 2.80)



and SONY if u let people upgrade and keep the homebrew thingy and dont patch it! im sure u wud outsell the DS!

All they have made are stupid ass ports. Hell, DefJam NY is practically a straight damn port of the ps2 version. They should have made the psp open from the beginning.

its 2 dork's opinion. this isnt any real news or anything. if a video posted here promoting the psp as the best hand held, everyone would be agreeing to it.



they are just 2 negative nerds here blabbin. they need to getout or get a girlfriend. lol drop the games and lose the spare tires. lmao

I hear many of you talking that the psp failed because of it's game lineup butit has many more factors that sony din't study. Parents buy their kids the cheapest console and adults do not buy portable consoles for themselves because a portable console is viewed by many as a childs toy , and the DS has more kid games. The psp fails and since I bought my psp I knew it was gonna be a failure but it had some games I liked :)

There was only one "notable" PSP title at TGS?!? Just for starters, how about:



MGS (which you mentioned)

GTA: VCS

Killzone: Liberation

SOCOM: Fireteam Bravo 2

Death Jr. 2

Ratchet and Clank: Size Matters (not until 2007)

Lumines II

Gunpey

Every Extend Extra

Mercury Meltdown



That's not one or two good titles, that's a *lot* of varied, high quality titles. And except for R&C, they're all coming out this season (and I left plenty of good ones off that list). I'm sure you can come up with a list or rationalization s why each and every one of those is terrible, but basically you hate Sony and will find a reason to hate any Sony platform exclusive title no matter what it is.



The DS is good as well, but posts like this are just obnoxious. Really, that's not an ok lineup or a good lineup, the PSP has an *awesome* lineup this year.

As long as your still enjoying it personally then its not a failure. Personally I think sony needs a kick up the ass- been at 1.5 for a year and have not been tempted to upgrade once, why!! not just Devhook, games have not been good enough to warrant the upgrade.

sooner they hurry GT4 up the sooner this psp can start whooping nintendo's ass



i see nothing special about a NDS, if you was touch screen go get a PDA, if you want Nintendo games, go get a game boy/advanced



the ds is *****, the games might be original but there pants



the psp might have ports, yet they are good



and what the hell are you lot talking about bugs in games for?? cant say iv found um an i own over 20 psp games



as for the Wii, i'm sorry Nintendo, you will have to try harder than Zelda and a dodgy control system to get me to look like a right prick in my living room waving the damn thing at the screen



if you want versatility go for a psp



if you want games get a PC



if you want crap get a DS



Nintendo only brought out 3 decent things, 1 was the SNES the 2nd was the N64 (an that only really came of age with Golden eye) and the other was the game boy



and who was the numpty who said Sony would be dead if it wasn't for the psp? get a grip lad, Sony make more things than just consoles

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Well at least PSP games will be cheaper now, but it will NEVER die ,'cuz there's homebrew scene, ya know?

sony makes the same repetative games that get more dull after the other. they had a few good ones at the start but they just keep those going longer than they should. Their is no psp game worth buying for 50$ not even 40$. And their trying to sell more movies than games. ppl can just use converters to get the things that they want. all their stuff isn't user friendly they code everything. Hombrew is the only good thing about the psp hopefully the will learn that soon. id buy a psp games just to get homebrew working.

Having averaged all the statistical data with my *snort* TI - 69 Graphic Calculator, the PSP is actually proving to be one of sony's most profitable inve$tment$. LOL. *snort*

they sould make devil may cry for the psp you kmow like a pre sequel to #4

all these loonng asss comments from people about marketing and what not. if they allowed homebrew (without kernel access) of course, then it would be amazing. they would sell loads more.

People are smoking something if they think the PSP has already failed or is about to fail. There are plenty of cool games for the PSP and many more to come. The PSP will be just fine and I will continue to enjoy the heck out of it.

Ace42 Is officially came out of the closet and is A homosexual

Shut the F.U.C.K up you little piece of S.H.I.T fanboy go back to playing with your piece of s.h.i.t DS. You wanna know what DS stands for it stands for Dumb s.h.i.t. If the DS is so great why the hell are you on a PSP site.

ace42



those other items might be able to do the things you say, but they don't play psp games, they don't have a 16:9 LCD screen, they don't play movies (well some of them anyway)



there are more of them for the same job as one item



so you don't like sitting in your car watching a movie?



i do, and i don't see the point in rushing home to watch a film when i can stay where i am and do it



there are 8gig memory sticks on the horizon for the psp



why would i want a crappy tiny cheap ass-ed MP3 player when i can use my psp, and its got better sound quality



no point in rushing out to get a USB hard drive when my psp can handle it fine



what are you doing wrong to get a low battery life?



my battery has been working fine for all 3 of my psp's that i own, never had a problem with them tbh, all of them last over 6 hours playing games, all last over 8 hours playing MP3's



why lug around a laptop that is far bigger / doesn't play psp games / battery lasts far less longer than psp



working on your philosophy, why bother with all them extra items when i can simply use a psp



you have argued about using so many different items for the jobs that a psp can do, i'm sorry you have had a bad experience with your psp, yet, mine has worked flawlessly with every thing iv thrown at it that doesn't involve the web browser (i have a PC for the web)



its more a practical thing more than anything, and if you opened your eyes, you would see this



as for "being able to plug an audio-jack into your car and use your PSP to play mp3s over the car's audio is not at all exciting"



i didn't say it was "exciting", its not, but it does do a job that it wasn't designed for



so yes, i like the psp, its a lot more versatile than a lot of the equipment you have pointed out (apart form a laptop for obvious reasons)



id much rather have the one item to do the same job as many, it saves room and in the long run saves money



and i'm sorry but you can now pick up a 4 gig memory stick from E-bay for about £40



so lets look at this in properly then shall we



portable dvd player = £99.99 for a half decent one

Mp3 player = £39.99

USB hard drive = between £40 for a crap one up to £200 for a good one

games system = sorry bud but I'm not buying a DS for no one (but say i did, £99.99)

any Internet capable device (IE full access) PDA ranges from £99.99 and upwards, laptops range from £299 and upwards



I'm not sure if your on the same playing field as me



that in its self is over £370



right lets see the comparison



i brought my 1st psp for £125

i brought a 1 gig memory card separate for £20

usb charger cable data cable £4 from Woolworth's



total £149



yet with that i can



play games

play movies

play MP3's

use it as a mass storage device

play home brew

show friends my pictures

upgrade the memory

surf the web with difficulty (but i can still surf the web)



I'm sorry to say this, but you make a mute point



as i said, from what i can tell your just arguing for the sake of it

i totally agree - who are these ppl? "the psp has failed?"

who says so? its absoloute rubbish and it makes me realy angry - ppl are just jumping on somkind of psp bashing bandwagon, the fact is theres plenty of must have psp titles that kick the *****e out of anything on the DS - GTA vicecity storys, Tekken, ghosts and ghouls, soon we'll have killzone,



psp will live

So, if we accept that laptops start at £300, you can see that a launch PSP would cost around £200 (and that's a 32mb stick pack there), a 4gb pro duo currently costs £75 at the cheapest. An 8gb stick could quite easily cost double that initially. That brings the cost well into line with the £300 laptop you mentioned, which has a BUILT IN hardrive that makes 8gb look quite laughable, and a screen that wipes its genitalia all over the PSPs. It can do everything the PSP can and better EXCEPT for run PSP games. Of course, it can run *PC* games, which are better than second rate rubbish available on the PSP in every way shape or form, AND you can get Bleem for it here and now, rather than having to WAIT for a PS1 emulator. And I think you'll find laptop batteries last longer than PSP batteries under normal usage conditions. Of course, they are more likely to blow your hand off, but the batteries were made by Sony anyway (dons his tinfoil conspiracy hat).



When it comes down to it, you are paying through the nose SOLELY for PSP games (due to other devices doing all the multimedia functions cheaper, faster and better), and PSP games are diabolically bad. If not, then why are people playing emulated games from 10 years ago? Yes, I love the retro classics as much as the next man, but if people are saying "hmmm, shall I play a nice shiney game that uses all this functionality I boast about? No, I'll play a game that doesn't use 3D acceleration at all..." what does that say about the games? Simply, that they are dross. They are inferior to games coded 10 years ago.



The very reason people are saying "ahh, but X is on the horizon" is because, after two years, the PSP has got nothing out there already to boast about, and that is just plain sad. Just look at all the people whose posts rely on promises made rather than delivered to justify their fanboyism.

GamesRadar is ran by Microsoft employees/fanboys, of course they'll diss anything from Sony every single chance they get.

*shrugs* Shows how thick headed Sony was thinking it could compete with Nintendo in the handheld market.



And to you moron fanboys blaming Japan; Sony is -in- Japan, and the japanese played a huge part in the PS2's success, as well as the PS3's hype, so don't point fingers, it only makes you look even dumber.



"OK HOW MANY GAME BOY WAS OUT IN THE PAST 20 YEARS THE PSP IS A GROWN MAN SYSTEM NOT A CHILD "



LMAO, what are you, 10? Oh yeah, the DS is definetly a baby system, so what is the PSP for, retarded infants (like yourself)?



"The PS3 will usher in compatability with PSP games that will breath new life to the PSP."



'Cause we all know GCN-GBA connectivity breathed new life into the Gamecube [/sarcasm]



Whatever, I'm perfectly satisfied and glad I bought my DS, it's a great handheld with great games, and that's exactly what I want, not a sub-par Ipod.

I always expected the psp to fail... but hearing it from the developers makes me smile.

f'uck the devs, the PSP is NOT dead.



btw how cool is that case? where can i get it?

Comparing second-hand prices is beside the point, as subsequent resale of these units doesn't increase the userbase for the console, or pass on profits to retailers. A second-hand market is evidence of the console's failure, not a prop-up for its success.



I was using retail figures from the cheapest online retail stores. However, I am willing to concede that the console bombing means some independant retailers are trying to dump stock as fast as possible with excessive markups below RRP.



Also, comparing the prices the console has fallen to *now* (and will fall to in the future) doesn't retroactively make it good value for money for all the people who purchased it 1 - 2 years ago, or a stunning success for those two years. Similarly, 2.71 hasn't been out for all of the last year, nor has the tiff exploit been available for it. *And*, I won't be spending twenty quid travelling to Northampton (not to mention the investment in time) to secure a cheap unit, let alone a second-hand unit which may have a scratched screen or be of dubious providence.



Even if we accept your figure of £140, which I have demonstrated is unrealistic for the majority of people purchasing it (lower than RRP means low margins or even a loss, and on a still expensive item, that lowers the total turnover), that is still *£40* more expensive than the combination I outlined for a device which offers *less* functionality.



Why use a portable DVD player and add a "cheap tacky" mp3 player you can't upgrade the storage on? Because the portable DVD player is superior in every respect to the PSP's video playback, not only in terms of video and audio quality, and the fact that, unlike UMDs, DVDs haven't been rejected as a format by major movie studios.



And because if you are going to "upgrade the storage" on the PSP, it will still cost the same, or more than, a personal MP3 player of the same capacity which has *EQUAL AUDIO QUALITY* to the PSP, *AND MORE FUNCTIONALITY*, in that it supports more audio formats, has AM/FM radio, etc etc.



Even using your figures, you are spending £40 for the PSPs games, which are *still not worth playing*. Seen as you are so keen on second hand stuff (even though you ignore the fact that if you are not using retail prices, then you can get a portable DVD and personal MP3 player cheaper. 1gb personal mp3 players are given away by some online retailers as a "spend more than £X and get this FREE!" offer) you could still use that £40 to get a second hand PS2.



Buying a PSP is "limiting what you can do" because out of all the things it does, it does most of them in a particularly mediocre manner for a *higher* retail price than alternatives with greater functionality and versatility. Yes, it's smaller, and yes you only have to carry one item at a time, but these two things are trade-offs. If any one component in the PSP fails, then you lose ALL its functionality, and will most likely have to replace the whole unit, rather than just a "cheap ass mp3 player" or getting a new mobile phone handset.



It's small size is at the cost of functionality - UMD movies have been dropped by several studios, so no more of them, and they were crap anyway. Apart from games (which are crap, I have half-a-dozen games I got for work and have barely touched any of them in an entire year, and these are the ones I liked MOST) how are you "limiting yourself" by going the way I suggested? If by "limiting yourself" you mean giving yourself greater flexibility and quality of use for 30% less cash (that's using your rather optimistic pricing system), then hell yeah.



The only way the PSP is "expanding what you can do" is it is giving you a portable (and severely cut down) PS2 (with very limited catalogue) for the same price (again, this is using your figures) as a PS2 you can play on a big screen with better controllers and more complete games. And I personally do not think it is worth that.

The developers have failed to realize that consumers are not stupid. The market will not bear a $39.99 price tag on games that are just recycled ports of their PS2 counterpart.



Try making the games $15-20 as a market test and see what the demand is like after 3 months.

Alright to make it clear, the game industry is difficult to survive in. For a small company like the one im working at it would be suicide to make a PSP game compared to DS games that were currently working on. The reasons are that

1) a PSP game would demand much more content than a DS game, both graphically and code wise = more expensive

2) I dont think we could convince a publisher to fund such a big project for a handheld. Its tough as it is to get funding for the PC/console market.

I realize this is a SONY news site so this is probably not the best place to bring this up, but Id much rather develop games for Wii than PS3 for the same reasons as I would for the DS - small budgets and an innovative platform. Obviously I want the same horsepower as the PSP or 360, but as I said, the fact that the horse power is there pumps up expactations on content and therefor the budget for the developer.

Don't worry boys and girls...let's not play this little game with the ds fanboys. I have my ds to my cousin because the games are intented for little boys that like simple things!



GTA - failure? What about some of the addictive little fun games like Exit? SSX4 was great too! Then there's Virtual Tennis (friekin' difficult but still cool)...Tekken Dark Resurrection (brilliant)...Ultimate Ghosts 'n Goblis...Ridge Racer...Need for Speed Most Wanted...Mercury...Burnout Legends...Wipeout Pure...The Godfather - Mob Wars...Lumines...Everybody's Golf...etc.



Obviously there is some complete ***** along with the good titles (but this happens with all platforms)...game that really sucked bad were...Fired Up, Ghost in the Shell, Star Wars Battlefront II, Ape Escape, Metal Gear Acid, X-Men Legends 2, etc.



So there is the good and the bad...unfortunately for the people that want the psp to fail (that's you little Johnny and Danny Boy) - it ain't gonna happen!

PSP never had too many good games for it, I sat down and played it for a while sometimes but got so bored, the DS has sooo many games that I want right now but can't afford them sadly. But yeah Sony really has to launch some good titles before noone wants to get the PSP anymore.

I HAVE BOTH DS AND PSP AND PERSONALY THE ONLY PSP GAME I FOUND FUN WAS SOCOM. I RENTED NBA BALLAS THE CRAP TOOK LIKE 3 MIN TO LOAD, WHILE NINTENDO ON THE OTHER HAND HAS A HANDFULL OF GAMES WORTH PLAYING. CASTLEVANIA, MARIO KART, NEW MARIO BROS, MARIO 64 DS, LOST MAGIC AND THE LIST GOES ON. THE ONLY REASON I STICK WITH THE PSP IS CUZ THE HOPE FOR A FINAL FANTASY GAME. I PERSONALY THINK THE PSP DID FAIL DUE TO HORRABLE GAMES. I DO NOT WANT TO BE WAITING IN FRONT OF MY PSP FOR 1-3 MINUTES JUST TO DRIVE A CAR OR PLAY BASKETBALL. I DONT LIKE THE TOUCH SCREEN ON THE DS BUT I BOUGHT IT CUZ THE GOOD GAMES.