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No, I don't care if it's portable I'm just not interested in it at that cost.

nah, too expensive for a poor modchip installer like me heheh

Why buy a PSP?

> so you can repurchase all your dvd's as tiny UMDs
> to buy games that you already own copies of
> so you can replay from the start because you dont have any saved games
> because you like games that are tiny and hard to read as opposed to a large tv
> just so you can buy a sony propriety memory stick and say "I paid double the cost of the equiv. SD card!"
> so you can listen to MP3's while looking like your carrying a brick in your pants.

Great device/technology/modding uses but at the end of the day, it isnt practical unless you commute for long periods. I know people that bought them, all the accessories and havent even played them for longer than half an hour a month. Xbox still rules on the PSP anyday.

But it looks great and is a sexy device.

I thought it suicide for Sony to enter into the handheld market. Everyone knows Nintendo has a monopoly in this industry...

I will say that sure, the PSP has some "neat" features, but as others have pointed out it's pretty much pointless unless you commute for long periods. That goes for all other handhelds as well, including all the Nintendo GameBoy variants and other "dead" handhelds, too.

The price is insane for both hardware, accessories, and software (games/movies) on top of it all. Even if you mod it and download games and the like (which I wouldn't condone or support), I still think it's just not worth it. To be 100% honest, I wouldn't even consider buying a PSP if it were $100 for the system, a large array of accessories, and 10 games of my choice and 5 movies of my choice - I would still turn it down.

It's just a matter of time before Sony stops production. I've been saying this from the day it was released. Although I don't like handhelds in general, it really is just suicide for anyone to enter that market to compete with Nintendo. The reason Nintendo sees a lot of profit in the market is because their system with it's price and games in the GameBoy is because it has such devoted children & kids who are into the system. Unfortunately, the PSP was geared towards an older audience, really, and older gamers don't look for portable gaming unless it's for a lot of commuting (like a lot of road trips or plane flights) so it really was destined to fail from the day it was announced.

Sorry Sony, but I think you really messed up with the PSP. I'm glad M$ hasn't made the same mistake of trying to enter into this industry of portable gaming.

There should be a "might buy/undecided."
I would like one, but not at that price.

Nope, don't like sony, don't like the battery power and I don't like the fact of playing on a small screen. Ill go with a ds instead...

what? you complain about the small screen and then say you'd rather have a DS? the main DS screen is smaller than the PSP's and the second screen is mainly for the touchpad quality.

i would definitely buy a white PSP if they made one for the US.

I'd like 1 but not at that price. I'm trying to get rid of that stupid ds.

What I am saying is I despise small screen; ds and psp but if i need to get one i'll go with ds due to the price.

It has the hardware, but where is the software... WHERE!!!! I've tried it, all the games suck, which is why I didn't buy one last month, and why I probably wont ever buy one. If I want to play a PSP game I'll get the PS2 version (or Xbox if availbable) and play that.

yes purchased it and traded it for a 4g Ipod.

No, but I'm hoping that my wife gets me one for Christmas

Sums it up the best

I bought, and I love it do death.

Kills road time uber fast, and the Emulation and homebrew isn't all that bad either.

Though I plan on getting GTA for it, I am still waiting for some killer games for my PSP.

frend at work has one. its ok but at dam near 400$ ill just get a next gen system. the price was suscide and the fact the screen isnt excaly made in the best of fasions. lets face it the psp is just cheaply made but you pay a outrages price for it.

well, funny thing happened to me. a friend of mine dropped his psp into his toilet and broke it. he sold it to me for $20 then i got a receipt for it and sent it to sony for another 20 bucks. so in reality i got one for one-fifth the price

i dont have one, but if i get bored, i might get one. depends a bit of what can be done on the hacking side of things

Maybe would've got one back in the day (when I was like 8-10). I see all portable gaming systems as being more for the kids to play when they're bored in the back seat or waiting somewhere with their parents. Who the hell has time to play a game if you work? Full time student? Parent? I'm both working and part time art student and I don't have any free time like that. If I had any free time to play games I'd play a REAL game system. And to use it as a portable movie player is a joke to me. Maybe if you are a traveling business person on long plane rides who enjoys gaming alot.... that, i guess, would make some sense. Otherwise it's juss for the kids to me.

I rather save my money for Xbox 360

I think sony suxx big time so i dont want to buy that PSP

Terrible build quality. Utterly impractical for carrying around due to it's size and ease of scratching, a colleague scratched his screen wiping it with a jumper FFS. The buttons are horrible. What's with the analogue stick? And THOSE D buttons ae horrid, diagonals are a joke. Playing Tony Hawks was a nightmare. If I had to buy a handheld, I'd get a DS. I already own a modified GBA and I never play that, so it's unlikely.

I played one for about 3 hours and I didn't get used to it or really enjoy the experience. The battery died shortly afterwards too. Another point.

Plus side? Really nice screen and the most powerful handheld out there. Shame it's in such a flimsy package and you have to buy expensive propriatary items to get the most out of it. Eff you Sony and your DRM stragegy as well:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20051103/tc_nf/39083 (off topic but relevant to my point as it's typical Sony style).


Needless to say I'll not be buying one! I'll take it if it's free though.

I bought one mainly for homebrew, but i'm enjoying some games too (since i never owned a sony console, there are lot's of games that i never played before).
The psp is a wonderfull piece of hardware, but the limitations that sony imposed on the software are hiding some of it's "shine"...

I got a Nintendo DS. I have wifime working with my laptop to it (only Ralink Wireless Cards work atm), I have also done flashme so I don't need wifime. And I have a GBA 256MBiT cart with lots of homebrew and DSLinux is really taking of. The onscreen keyboard rocks!

Glad I didn't get a PSP, well to expensive. And if you drop it by by big nice screen, thats the great thing about a DS. When you close it both screens are protects well. Oh and check out this, http://akkit.org/dswifi/

A couple of people have mentioned build quality with the PSP. I have to say that, having imported a few of these myself when 1st released in Japan and then recently the white version, the build quality of the Japanese version seems to be vastly superior to the US version. I own a Jap and a US PSP (don't ask why) the Jap PSP screen is brighter, it feels more solid, there are no dead pixels ( in nearly every jap i have seen) and one thing I really notice is the finish, I have never seen a facia on a US PSP that isnt without ripples or little imperfections from production. All the Jap systems I see have a perfect smooth mirror finish. When I was in the US in May I bought back 15 psp's with me and not one had a perfect finish or without a dead pixel! I'm surprised more people haven't picked up on this.

i bought one jap psp...

here in brazil all consoles and portables are to expensives, but i payed more in my xbox than in my psp...

over priced game's over priced handheld not sure if any handheld model was worth it lots of people get them and then sell them a week later L.O.L.

I love my PSP but it IS too fragile and Sony holding back some of its functionality in order to sell their UMD movies and their TV streaming box.

My screen got cracked after less than 2 weeks use and im not sure it was even my fault. I dropped it twice out of my trouser (pants) pocket but it was fine afterwards, but the next day the screen had a big crack in it. I think it was actually just the changing temperature in the flat to be honest as it was perfectly fine after the small drops.

I would have to say the screen is the letdown on the PSP. Its too damn slow refresh rate amongst other things - you get major smearing on the screen especially on GTA. Id rather have had a slightly duller, not quite as clear screen with a decent pixel response time. I havent seen an LCD this slow for 5 years, my 3 year old laptop doesnt even smear on GTA.

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I bought one and I love it. I have played it for countless hours at work. I think it does everything i can reasonably expect it to. It's great.

I love my PSP. There are going to be a lot of online games for it in the future. As of now you can play Battlefront 2, Fifa 2006, Madden 2006, NBA Live 2006 and The World Series of Poker online. I use it mostly for emulators and homebrew applications... (like the PSP Radio that connects to Shoutcast) but I also like being able to backup my games to the memory stick.

If you don't like handhelds in general then thats fine, but if you do like them then this is a must have. The Sony PSP is by far the best handheld for gamers, developers and hobbyists.

Obviously no handheld is not going to be comparable to current or next gen consoles so it is kind of dumb to compare them. I would rather play my Xbox or PS2 over the PSP as well, but I play my PSP more since I cannot always play those systems.

Before i got my PSP i got it at launch i was gung ho not going to buy it. But after seeing the potential of it as a prtable media center deivce be it internet, Photos, Videos, Mp3z its a great little device right now i am waiting till i can get my hands on that Datel 4gb Memory stick and the extended battery so then ii will have exactly what i want and need for my PSP.

Yeah, I got one. And if anyone is interested in one. Just PM me.

MDFF

i know exactly what you mean .... i had no plan on buying it never even look @ it in any store, but when my friend got 1 when he came back from HongKong, he lend it to me over night ... and I was completely hooked!!

Of course, I did my research on what it's potential and all the stuff that comes with it .... well, a month later - got my own ...

*now, I can be all alone in d washroom taking a dump and still play my video gamez**

i liked it but i kinda felt cheated. constant firmware updates, not that many/good games. not that much space. and not a big hombrew scene. i wish it had more tittles and ppl behind it.

Expensive? Why? Stupid morons. Just 'cause you can't afford it doesn't make it bad machine.

It's brilliant. No serious gamer can deny that.

this is funny because i just bought a psp today

It'll turn out to be an unreliable heap of shit like every other console that Sony make. Whether it's fire-risk battery packs, failing UMD drives or screens cracking due to heat stress, only time will tell, but I reckon Sony'll have a fault-related class-action lawsuit on their hands within 2 years. Again.

I don't get the people saying the DS is a better system. Take away the price tags and there is no contest from what I see. The DS is the stupidest concept I have ever seen.

Nice. Just make sure you turn the sound down when you do .

Man, a lot of people here are speaking out of ignorance....not a big homebrew scene? You gotta be kidding me? It has emulators for nearly every classic system (check out the downloads section at pspupdates.com), super nintendo runs great on it, neo geo cd emulator even. You can get a 4 gb storage hard drive for it, the screen on it looks as if you are watching a mini hdtv. You don't have to buy UMD movies to watch movies on it, you can get a program for free called pspvideo9 that will convert any video file on your pc to view it off of the memorystick/hard drive on the psp. The new 2.0 firmware has an internet browser, and people are already running homebrew on the 2.0 firmware...I have a snes emulator running on 2.0 firmware with tons of roms! Can't beat portable SNES on a large, hi-res, portable screen.

And for all of you people complaining about lack of software... play GTA Liberty City Stories on it...and don't say "well, better gta games are on xbox, ps2 etc"... I played wireless multiplayer deathmatch GTA on it and it's a complete blast! Pedestrians, pedestrian traffic, power ups, tons of multiplayer modes, graphics and gameplay just as good as the console versions. I admit, the software lineup was rather weak for a long time...but once you play GTA on it, especially multiplayer, you will want to run out and buy one.... and don't bash something just because you can't afford it. That's like saying a 15 inch black and white tv is better than an HDTV because you can get one for next to nothing. Get a better job, or buy it with your credit card....and no, I am not a fan-boy of any system...I own every major system out, and they all have their strong points - except for jaguar.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Sony will never make a great console. They make much more money selling you new versions over and over.

edit: Can I change my vote to plan on buying one. I would love the snes emulator.

Little life lesson, not everybody here who said it is too expensive for what it is can not afford it.

as with just about everyone here, its the impractability of the thing that really kills it

DS sucks. Playstation nailed it to nintendo with the psp. Music,Videos,Pitures,Movies,Emulation be serious its worth the price.Now the memory card price that pushin it. 518 4 me!

yeah well nintendeo are dead. i think they should just give up now, they dont have the firepower to match it with sony or m$

I bought a PSP but only have 3 games. Fairly entertaining but not enough. Was waiting for GTA:LCS, but screw it for $50. I though I'd be at least getting a $10, if not $20 discount vs. home consoles. For $50 I'll get some cool new Xbox or Xbox 360 game. I'm going to try returning my PSP to Wallyworld to help pay for the 360. Then I'll just sell the PSP games on ebay.

Already got the money, but then I'll be able to get another wireless controller, Xbox Live Gold, and another game or something.

-Monty

It may have some new games like the new Grand Theft Auto, but why bother playing on the small screen when you can just buy a Ps3 with (hopefully) a new GTA game on a bigger screen with undoubtly (is that a word?) better graphics than the PSP. I was wondering, does anyone else think that Xbox will be stupid enough to bring out some sort of XBP (Xbox Portable lol)? Funny if they did and it sold more that the PSP cherrio!

Ps3 All The Way!!!!!!!!!!

or just get the xbox 360 version and be content with having a far better system that can do a lot more then the ps3

reason for diff in quality in the jap and us psp is where they were built, all the 1s now r china crap quality, older 1s r jap made and hav better lcd's, sharp where as the china 1s hav samsung lower grade 1s

thats suprasing. considering the has the whole global launch and everything