R.i.p. Psp ?

[acn010]

i think the psp is gonna be a homebrew machine now. if this happends

[nyrtrublue]

did anyone think that the article was written by a nintendo exec

[Cap'n 1time]

I would say its already failed. The machine has no where really to go but down... I find Sony to be a little bit patronizing actually. The psp seems to be a scam.. OMG BUY OUR SUPER GOOD GRAPHIC GAMES (graphics dont make a game) AND OUR SUPER DUPER WEB BROWSER! (limited everything... buy a laptop jackass) PLUS OUR AWSOME MOVIE UMD'S! (over priced monkey turds... Why not watch a DVD so everyone around you can watch too...)

PSP is, in my books, a homebrew platform... as far as comerical games and products go though... its a piece of $#@!.

The DS on the otherhand is not quite as much of a homebrew machine as the GBA, but its got some cool things going for it... and Many of its commericial releases are quite stunning. Nintendo wins again.

While home made games and emulators make for a good time, they dont sell a system. Doing a $#@!ty job in sales is whats causing sony to fail.

[BrooksyX]

Honestly, unless the psp starts getting some great titles that every psp owner must have (like a halo or smash bros.), I think the psp will become commercially dead within a year or two. But i still believe that homebrew scene will continue to grow and thrive for years to come because the psp is just such a great platform for it.

Although we havnt seen the official ps1 emu and it is just around the corner. It could be the big push that sony needs to gain some ground in the handheld war.

[metalspector]

Well unlike most of you , I really think psps is dying , I mean how many times you see someone buying a psps game in a gam retail , very rarely , how any tines you see people buying DS crap , everytime you visit a reatil gaming store , and I don't think it's because of games or developing cost that psp is dying , it's because it doesn;t have the word gameboy on its name and it costs more and parent are likely to buy the cheapest stuff.

[stotheamuel]

I think the psp could start going uphill with...
5 or 6 dollar umd movies

ps3 hook up

ps1 emu

(non security updates.... don't we wish :P)

cheaper games (40 dollar new releases)

the camera to work well in games..

and the gps to work sufficiently

and finally a revamped web broswer with better functions

not too many problems huh? :rolls eyes:

[remansano]

Well I'm sure PSP won't die so fast...
It will probably have an "industrial game shortage" (because of the ISOs and the cost of the game production) but it has such an amazing portable hardware (probably the reason of the biggest homebrew scene ever) that home developers hopefully won't stop developing for it

I really don't give a damn about PSP games... I bought it just because of the homebrews!! So, Sony can even ruin coz I'm still using the PSP and waiting for the next release of the N64 Emu (or just using the Genesis and Snes emus and irshell)

[tophead420]

lol the psp dying i beg to differ look at the xbox 360 on these sale reports theyer on selling 1000 or so while the psp sold 25000 or so and the reason people say this bullshiz is they are h8ers they just cant stand the fact that sony in my mind has the greatest hand held ever made thet are ahead of their time and way ahead of nintendo whos handheld has the grafix i believe of an n64 so you see and the only reason people buy the ds over the psp is simply the price and if the price would drop the sells of the psp would probably sky rocket plus i believe the psp is the superior handheld becuz it plays movies , umd games, homebrew, music has net access and it has that ooo so lovly 4.3 inch screen which you got to admit make it alot easir to play

[NoQuarter]

comercially it may be over but I had two friends yesterday who bought psps just for homebrew.I definitly agree with one time user. cmon sony wise up- and give us linux

[psp411]

o.O... well tahts ok... im looking forward to the pricedrops for the psp because i wanna own 3 of the... currently i have one adn im too poor to afford any more. anyways i think the articles right because even though psp has amazing graphics, multimedia abilities, and uses the worlds leaders in screeens plastics, ect( too amazing =P) its a burn in any1s pocket( unless ur rich). you can easily go and buy an mp4 player and a nintendo ds lite for less than u can buy a psp. also, teh games are overpriced. that is why pyriting occures. people cannot afford the system and the game all at the same time so thus, they pyrite ( but i can lol... i buy games b4 i buy the console =P... been doin it since super nintendo dayzz... that was the life=D)for nintendo ds, you can go n buy a decent game for under 50 buks an enjoy it juss like any other game. this is why psp will always lose to ds( even tho i hate ds but i luv nintendo products... ie gameboy advanced sp, gamecube, n64 and SNES<---the best---)So i wouldnt be suprised if psp becomes*nonexistant* in store because of those factors.
oo yea... and also, bricking a psp is soo much easier than bricking a ds. breaking a psp is way easier than breaking a ds as ds is built for durability. scratching ur psp is THE WORST THING that could happen to it as supposed to scratching a ds. PSP is meant for people who want evrything in a package and is willing to go the extra step in taking care of it.


haha contrary to wut i said... i like the multimedia stuff but i doint wanbt ma psp stolen... so i want an mp4 and when im ready, ill get a ds so that way i wont be too afraid to losing any of that stuff.