The PSP - Has it Lived up to your Expectations ?

[stotheamuel]

i love it i didnt think it would be this good but atleast...

problems-
- no 2 analog
-mem stick price
-no good enough games to update since gta
- not too many formats excepted (atleast on 1.5)
- battery life (not too bad to me though)
-games should atleast be lower than a ps2 game!
-umd movies. (PERIOD!)

[Ichijoe]

In short....

NO!

First off it took almost exactly One whole Year for the PSP to get to Europe! After it hit the Streets in Japan and the US.

Sadly the PSP*™ has been a bit of a waste I was looking for a good Handheld System to play Playstation-esq RPGs' on and found myself swamped in a Sea full of lame-arsed over priced UMD Movies' and just ~15+ Games. None of' em really worth having. The "Highlite"?! To date has been GTA:LCS.

As far as Homebrew goes. Yes it's a defente plus! But, as with newer Games requireing ever higher (e.g. more hacker secure), Firmwares. how much longer can this scene remain viable? Sure the worlds full of highly intelligent Geeks', great! Then S0NY*™ will just eventualy force a new Firmware (i.e. even more secure then the last!), on us. So while 1.50 / 2.00 Loaders are indeed cool. This is just a dead end, in that you'll either have to let Homebrew go at some point. Or refuse to buy more Games. Which oddly enough seems simple enough. is anyone from S0NY*™ reading this?!

It sees that hardly a day goes by that there isn't some review of some new Game that just got released in Japan (of all places!), that most Mortals will never see the outside of!

Oh yeah I'm impressed with my PSP*™!!!

[Musoka_Eimin]

I love mine, but its a dual edge sword, had mine since launch and have NOT had any problems with the hardware itself EXCEPT the analog stick. They really dropped the ball on that part, plus it REALLY would have been much better with the second analog stick. The fact that mine is 1.50 and is versatile with the homebrew iced the cake for me....However, I am pretty upset that in order to keep that functionality I have to use ISO loaders and UMD loaders, just to play the newer games that are TRICKLING out slowly, patching and playing with flash memory etc. Also I agree the ball has been dropped on the games, A. they are overpriced, B. Not many games out for it, C. In all the games that ARE out, I'd pick only a few to actually buy and play. Also UMD movies are overpriced, and converting vidz to memory stick is a pain in the.... Other than that I think sony did a great job for a handheld, I have no plans to sell mine, or to upgrade firmware, just so mad every time a new game comes out I have to search for a way to load the thing....All in all I love my psp tho. I'd just like to reiterate that I do NOT wish to use ISO loaderz and the like but. Sony forces my hand to get some of MY games running I HONESTLY don't believe in using ISO's you don't own as that is WHY SONY MAKES THIS HARD ON US ALL. Any ISO'z i have ever used I own the game for, I do not support piracy as it is no different than walking into the store and tucking games under your jacket, shoplifting what it is....