R.i.p. Psp ?

[mr_nick666]

I just woke up, So if im not making since, deal with it people.

But heres my official opinion on this.
To all those people, That would rather see the psp dead, because there some sort of backward twisted ds fan boy. Either go pick up a psp and play it before you form an opinion, or go fornicate yourselves with a sharp wooden stick. I've got a ds lite and I've got a psp. While it true the ds lite is alluring and i love it almost equally to the psp, a lot of people feel the dslite may steal the psp's thunder.

I don't see it that way, What I see is a new ds that completely 1up's the original ds in every way., and yes its good, but after I got over the original shock of owning a dslite, I found myself going back to the psp, for devhook and firmware tweaks and basically most of my handheld needs, Yes the dslite is much much better then the ds phattie with leaps and bounds.

But those leaps and bounds are not reflected on the lite v.s the psp war. The dslite is still less powerful then the psp, those beautiful screens on the dslite?, Well the psp has a screen that is just as beautiful and much larger..

To make a long story short, In every consoles life span,, provided that console doesn't own the no.1 spot your going to hear rumors of its death,, not to mention the very nature of this main article was written based on opinion, can people not see that ? in the competitive market share world opinion doesn't amount to jack, facts and figures do..This is just some scare that has been released by a nintendo fan boy, hell we don't even know what nintendo isn't behind it themselves lol :P

Lets get with the real program for a second, how many times have you seen a console system fail?
sure the virtual boy flopped, but that was a damn bad idea to begin with, and the dreamcast flopped commercially. But sega was going out of the console business at that time.

The truth is, console failures, (True failures) are rare, The sega saturn, the n64, Those systems where not failures, This all reminds me of the game gear days. Hell the game gear had the game boy beat in every way, But the game boy still won the race, But did that make the game gear not worth owning? NO the gamegear became a beloved classic.

Its not over for the psp, Not by a long shot, And ill be here this time next year arguing with psp haters about the same damn thing, still laughing at how blind to the fact's they are ,lol,Because the psp is here to stay

I think thats the end of this discussion then! Nicely summed up in a Shadow Prophet rant!

[horacehogarth]

Laughable article.. yes they're right in some respects, but the PSP a failure? No chance, it's still selling very very well. We all knew UMDs movies were a bad idea but as a portable multi media machine it's great and it's potential is only just being explored.

A rumoured price drop would really catapult sales, though 20-30k sold a week in Japan is still mighty impressive. It may not be selling as well as the DS Lite but being second in the handheld market is still a very lucrative place to be.

[Zack3008]

I'd think anyone should be able to pay that price for basically a portable PS2, they probably were paid thousands to write that article for Nintendo.

[BL4Z3D247]

LMFAO @ SP dude u are the rant master haha, and as for this article the guy was smokin crystal meth when he wrote this cuz there is no way i'd rather have a DS than a PSP, i love my homebrew and favorite childhood consoles "to go" on a fairly big screen(well for a portable console) i couldn't ask for anything more

[neoxalucard]

I think the PSP is a great system, and the best and almost only place for homebrew on the go. But don't close your ears to this people. I read an article just like this about the DC after a PSO game. Just a month later Sega released an official announcement. And what scares me is, as much as i hate to admit it a lot of stuff in that GW article is true.

[deftonesmx17]

I think the GameGear losing to the gameboy had something to do with the fact that it took 6 AA batteries and still went dead after less than 3 hours........

[Cap'n 1time]

@ SP & b8a, A system being dead and a system being a failure is two different things. For instance, the Dreamcast is dead but it isnt a failure. The Xbox in Japan was a failure. The 3DO was however a failure. It can be argued that the Neogeo AES was a failure. Take homebrew and emulation out of the picture. This leaves only commercial releases on the field. What you have behind is the begginings of a failure.

I agree with b8a that it's too early to tell if the system is dead or not, but currently it is a failure and I forsee no possible way for sony to pull themselves out of the hole. Now perhapes I just hate Final Fantasy and most of the "remakes" that Sony has companies pull out of their asses, and maybe I'm just a big biased on the issue of sony... but it is my opinion that Sony has failed at the handheld market and though It is likely they will attempt a handheld again in the next generation, I think the PSP will leave a perminant scar on their skin. And Homebrew is cool, but It dosnt make sony any money.

@ deftonesmx17 I WISH my GG got 3 hours.. I think I got 1 hour tops on 6 AA batteries.

[NoQuarter]

I personally traded in my ds for a psp as soon as I saw the screen before the psp was released in America.I didn't have any idea about homebrew at that time all I could think was there will be Tekken on this system one day.I really love nintendo and all thier products and especially their big franchises and would consider even buying another ds,I mean new super mario is great.Really sony screwed up with the proprietary umd format which honestly really SUCKS !!!Good job with memstick and not to bad marketing since 8gb memsticks were already developed at the time of the psps release.Too bad most of sonys money comes from licensing fees for game development.Oh yeah virtual boy now that was a failure

[Accordion]

even if it dies commercially, well be left with an ongoing homebrew seen, and a fully functional N64 and PSone emulator, to be honest i would have been happy if the psp had been nopthing more than a portable psone and nothing else

[shadowprophet]

@ SP & b8a, A system being dead and a system being a failure is two different things. For instance, the Dreamcast is dead but it isnt a failure. The Xbox in Japan was a failure. The 3DO was however a failure. It can be argued that the Neogeo AES was a failure. Take homebrew and emulation out of the picture. This leaves only commercial releases on the field. What you have behind is the begginings of a failure.

I agree with b8a that it's too early to tell if the system is dead or not, but currently it is a failure and I forsee no possible way for sony to pull themselves out of the hole. Now perhapes I just hate Final Fantasy and most of the "remakes" that Sony has companies pull out of their asses, and maybe I'm just a big biased on the issue of sony... but it is my opinion that Sony has failed at the handheld market and though It is likely they will attempt a handheld again in the next generation, I think the PSP will leave a perminant scar on their skin. And Homebrew is cool, but It dosnt make sony any money.

@ deftonesmx17 I WISH my GG got 3 hours.. I think I got 1 hour tops on 6 AA batteries.

1-X Bro, Your my bro,So dont take it personaly,lol
But I have a point to get across with this

You know and I know the 3do filed when pioneer went out of the console business. price and lack if third party support killed the 3do and pioneer went out of the console business all together.
Its always the the death of a console when the company goes out of the business,
What true failure has ever came outside of the virtual boy, From a company that never went out of the console business?

Neo geo ? Snk went out of the console business.

Dreamcast? you know the story,

3do, pioneer went out...
Sony isn't about to go out of business any time soon, And believe me, those personal financial losses on Sony's part per psp system, sony wouldn't take the risk if they didn't think the psp was worth it, Know that the ds cant do the stunning 3d that the psp can do, and why ? well because its working with a little under half the power of the psp. lol and this will show later on, Sure the ds is grabbing a lot of attention these days, But seriously lets go with the ds market for a second shall we, ?
While there are a few more ds releases that demand attention, then umd releases the ds has been out quite a bit longer, These doom and gloom predictions for the psp are completely unfounded rubbish , based entirely on the fact of the umd movie market crash lol, The umd movie market was doomed to fail. people keep missing that point, Portable and movies just doesn't work, this has been proven with constantly low market sales of Portable dvd players, Movies are cherished glorious past time spanning multiple cultures. The very deep rooted idea of movies bring about fond memories of going to vast theaters and seeing your favorite flicks on larger the life screens, and if not that, then the comfortable surrounding of your home with friends, But little tiny screens and movies don't mix its just part of our culture to want to see movies on large lush screens,

The umd movie market was a fad market carried only on the hype of the popularity of the psp, and speaking of that popularity. How amazing that the small psp in all its doomed and gloomed predictions shook of the movie industry in such ways as it did, What people need to understand, is that the umd movie market is not the umd game market, and just because the movie aspect of things is looking grim, doesn't mean the psp is looking grim,
I mean come on stay with me just for a micro second people,
The two main points the the main article was trying to get across was the popularity of the dslite, (a brand spanking new release might I remind you ) and the fail of the umd movie market, How does this reflect the psp console itself, ? The fact is, anything new and nintendo is going to sell like hotcakes in japan for the first six months, Im telling you guys give the dslite hype time to wear down, and you will see where the true market stands lol, people get all caught up in the moment and like to join bandwagons, And the most fascinating part of al of this is, The fact's and figures don't support these claims, in fact in the last several months psp sales have sky rocketed, lol that doesn't sound like a failure to me lol , Oh well you guys sort this out lol, You know where ol SP stands on the issue,... (Somewhere in reality) lol