The PSP - Has it Lived up to your Expectations ?

[sroon]

Im happy with my psps! i have two 1.50 and a 2.60 for my real games, its always good to have backup!

[CU_AMiGA]

Hey Yo!

Apart from the homebrew community, the PSP comes a VERY poor 2nd place to the Nintendo DS. IMHO The homebrew community prevents the PSP being a total disaster. I have a v2.00 PSP and just use it for emulation and GTA.

Regards,

[muffinman]

I love my psp because the homebrews great (thank you 1.5) but the official games are generally crap. I mean socom oline is sweet and i can sit there for hours but i can't be bothered to upgrade and downgrade anymore because im waiting on mph to sort out the multiplayer for it with the umd loader, so that sucks.
Also most of you feel you have it bad and you guys dont even live in england. We have to wait months to get the games you have for instance i had my socom with the headset bought for me for christmas, but that was from america where it had already been out for a month or so yet over here it still hasnt been released :s
I wont leave my psp as its great i could do with a new game though so time to buy a ds and get me multiplayer tetris :P

[MadMonkee]

I had a DS first and then I bought a PSP and I thought "o my god" and i left my ds at home and then sold it. I loved my PSP, i took it everywhere I went, i even slept with it. Unfortunatly my PSP didnt return the love. My experiences with PSP have been disastrous. My oriiginal psp developed a noise in the umd drive and the games would stop in the middle. I got a refurbished one and was happy again, but soon after that the new ones analog stick unit broke and i could only play games with the dpad, and that only with the psp putting a downright tilt on the charecters your controlling. I finally got a new analog stick unit and put it in but now the umd drive wont work at all. So now ive bought a new DS and am back to where i started from. $onys workmanship leaves much to be desired.

I had my PSP for quite sometime and only problem I had was from its top view the left side of the UMD lid is a little bit spaced far from what it used to be.

Perhaps you need to "Sleep with your psp" a little less harsh.

[MadMonkee]

Im happy with my psps! i have two 1.50 and a 2.60 for my real games, its always good to have backup!

When you got the money...

[chaos-is-me]

I got the Ds and Psp at about the same time and initially I played the Ds non-stop and my Psp went neglected. This was mostly due to the fact that Ds games are about £25 and Psp games are about £40. Since I have been getting into homebrew on my Psp I have been using it more and more but Ds is still #1 in my book.

Where are all the decent Psp games!?!

[Voltron]

Yes, I think the PSP has lived up. I would gripe about the quality of commercial UMD games but finally some real great games are coming out. It took a year but that is the same with most any system. I have both a DS and 60GB iPod and both are sitting neglected. I have 3 or 4 games for my DS and like 30 for the PSP.

I must give thanks to the homebrew community and all coders supporting it. With PSP homebrew, the PSP won't get old and obselete in the sense that a lot of technology does. Homebrew apps are getting better and better.

What I hate is that the PSP has such little storage options. 4GB MAX doesn't seem to do the little portable justice. With all said, the PSP is the best.

[LazerTag]

I love all the old emulated systems for the PSP and much of the homebrew. Actually still surprised that someone has not really taken the reigns of GBA emulation a little further, but it'll get there I hope.

I have yet to find any PSP game that does anything for me. GTA is OK I guess, but it's still much more fun playing on a console or PC. Same can be said for many other of the games so far.

I do like to use my PSP in my car with my FM transmitter to listen to my MP3's which is pretty cool.

UMD movies I could really care less about. The same can be said for taking pictures with me for my purposes.

All in all I was happy with my purchase of the device. I didn't however buy it new either. No way was I going to pay $250 at the time, I paid much less buying one from someone with an ad in the local paper.

[iniquitous_beast]

I live in an area saturated by a wireless network. Naturally, I was thrilled to hear that the psp would support online gameplay over WLAN. Aside from a general shortage of games (outside the racing genre), the psp has seen very few (if any) games that support real-time online gameplay. Ad-hoc is pretty lame when you don't know other people in your area who own psps. My psp is currently up for bid on ebay. I'm just going to buy a ps2 to satisfy my gaming/homebrew need.

[Flipao]

I found it somewhat bulky and clumsy at first... it has since grown on me, great device, shame the games aren't quite living up to expectations, but thank god for homebrew