R.i.p. Psp ?

[PSPegasus]

Although I don't agree with what the article is saying, there is an element of truth to it. Sony is actually killing their own console by trying to block homebrew. Frankly I don't think I would have ever bought a PSP if it weren't for the homebrew. The only really good commerical game out at the moment is GTA, which is on PS2 now anyway and will likely go to PC in the near future. That isn't to say that some of the other games available are bad, but they don't have that lasting quality that LCS has. And as for UMD movies, they are a total waste of money. If the price was cut in half, maybe they'd be more worth it. But it is certainly not worth paying the same price as a DVD for one, especially when you can just rip the DVD and put it on your Memory Stick.
As far as the PSP dying I'd say just one look at this and other homebrew sites disproves that. I doubt that the writer of the article actually researched the homebrew scene before he came up with those claims.

[psp411]

This article is ridiculous. Had the writer even delved into the homebrew scene, he/she would have realized that the PSP is far superior to any of the handhelds out there now.

And with a slew of features coming down the pipe from Sony, I doubt that this console is 'dead' or even 'dying'.

When PS3 comes out, I gurantee that the PSP will see a huge increase in sales.

The thing is about that, sony doesnt support teh homebrew scene for psp thinking hteyre gonna " make more $" if they close off that gate for this sexy handheld device. PSP owns the homebrew world yes, but if sony is trying its best to kill that link, it will thus then be weaker to ds( even tho i hate to admit it.) also, onetimeuser is right also. your better off buying a win98 labtop than having a psp. theyre both the same price and u can do way more on a labtop than psp anyday. even tho psp is more portable, teh things u can do with a labtop is unreachable to a psp.

back to ds and psp

ds is more portable than psp
ds is about the same size as psp but the new portable lite is 20% smaller than psp

the games for psp are big and easy to break( my friend already broke 2 of them nad i have 5 so now they have to be custom fixed by me with sum krazy glue) while the ds games r small and portable(about the size of 2 of our memory sticks duos) which is convienient

Ds uses less $ than psp
ds is $149+tax last time i checked
Psp is $225 for the BASIC YES VERY BASIC(no demo disc, no headphone or remote kit, no felt case and no cleaning cloth)
the most expensive ds game ive ever seen was $59.99 which is rare while the most expensive psp game ive seen is $69.99 which u all who buy games for ur most favourite system is a pretty common price for a psp game= me poor after a chek... forget the game i need sum cash for clothes n bus tickets 4 skool

Lets not start a DS fanboy vs PSP fanboy war, but lets face it, the DS is sold to more people for simple reasons.

A woman will feel more inclined to buy a DS than a PSP since they normally would prefer "colorful" games.(before I offend any women on these forums, I only say this because every woman that has ever played my PSP just wants to play "colorful" NES or SNES games)

A younger person would buy a DS over a PSP for the same reason as women, plus most younger people are more impatient and will have trouble waiting for a disc based game to laod. Then you also have income. These younger people probably only work part-time or don't have a well paying career.

A parent buying their child a portable is more often than not going to go for the cheaper one, which would be the DS. Heck, I even thought about buying a DS just because it was cheaper when I really wanted a PSP.(Got the PSP though and couldnt be happier )

Anybody who hates on $ony is not going to buy a PSP if they want a portable (unless they are an extreme graphics-$#@!) and its not like they have many other options besides Nintendo.

So who buys the PSP over the DS? Homebrew junkies, graphics-$#@!s, tech-buffs, people who want "PS2" games on the go, etc. The problem, these type of people do not add up like the mainstream people that buy the DS.

Yes, a psp is less attractive to these groups of people than they are to the other. Dont get me wrong but i also have girls asking me to play mario instead of playing midnight club 3: dub edition, or nba live 06. as quoted, ladies seem to like more colourful " cutened up"( lol not a real word but u get teh point) games than a harcore racing game where u pinp ur ride or a hardcore mobster action game like GTA(good thing ive got snes in homebrew. for all the girls who like that platform. i personally do too lol). This one game would also steer litlle kids away from psp for its too violent for them. Also, ive seen way more 10 yr old kids with ds than with a psp come to think of it.

Durability nature
PSP is too difficult to take care of so that it does have a proper value when you go to trade it in. even 5 scratches on your psp's silk screen would take off at least $30 from the trade-in price. FOr ds now, you can get alot of tiny scratches and it wouldnt matter too much. probably -$5 for that case.

Well in that case lets go to where psp is kore superior than evry other handheld.

better graphics
hahaha psp KIKS EVRY OTHER HANDHELD'S GRAPHICS ANYWHERE!!! ds, that is one of your downfalls

Multimedia ability
PSP has multimedia functions which ds doesnt originally have. Even though psp has a crappy video encodement( avc adn mp4 sux ass) it still plays videos while ds doesnt support that( b4 u flip out and say yes they do, they have the tv gba gamepacks, those dont count. you cant select whether to watch that or play a game or listen to music now can u?)

Game quality
as i siad b4 psp game quality is very good for a handheld. reminds me of the time when gameboy came out and hten a few years later, gamegear came out. gamegear had better graphics and better game quality. the same goes for psp and ds. the only downfall here is that ds has way more " fun games" than psp does. psp just looks at the graphics of teh games while ds looks at the gameplay of the game. which one do you prefer? i rather both so i have a gamecube=P

All in all ds will take over psp no matter what adn even if ps3 does come hout, psp will be soo boring because no1 during that time will be able to have full honmebrew capabilities as the 1.5ers have now that youll buy it to be an extra controller with a screen for the ps3 HAHAAHAH. oh well. psp i still love u but ur future look grim...

[Mr. Shizzy]

That article don't scare me. The PSP will eventually die off as a commercially supported system (as all consoles do). But I really didn't buy it for commercial use.

[Cap'n 1time]

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

a number of things is wrong with your logic here, but one I really want to point out is... SONY LOOSES MONEY EVERYTIME THEY SELL A CONSOLE! While nintendo may very well be ahead because of its more resonable price IT WILL ALWAYS OUTSELL THE PSP because the PSP hardware actually costs more to produce and ship than what you pay for in the store. Nintendo perhapes has the same delima, but they actually sell good games that people purchase.

No doubt the PSP is indeed a superior peice of hardware when compared to the DS, but cool points dosnt earn you green.

Please everyone, keep in mind the faliure of sony has nothing to do with how much you like the system. Sony is failing because of their inability to create a cheap, practical usage for a handheld system. It seems even the devkits are too expensive and as no one seems to give a $#@! about purchasing UMD games, why should the developers concider it? Its much cheaper, and apparently easier to continue developing for the PS2, Xbox, GC, and even the X360... not to mention that could just develop games on the DS with a higher sales and success rate... Sony failes at portable period.

[Dave the Rave]

Originally Posted by Dave the Rave
There's a SNES emulator for DS.

I bet it would look like crap because the screen has such a crappy resolution and limited colors.

What, like a TV set?

[under_0ath777]

psp is dead, we rezed it

[mr_nick666]

a number of things is wrong with your logic here, but one I really want to point out is... SONY LOOSES MONEY EVERYTIME THEY SELL A CONSOLE! While nintendo may very well be ahead because of its more resonable price IT WILL ALWAYS OUTSELL THE PSP because the PSP hardware actually costs more to produce and ship than what you pay for in the store. Nintendo perhapes has the same delima, but they actually sell good games that people purchase.

No doubt the PSP is indeed a superior peice of hardware when compared to the DS, but cool points dosnt earn you green.

Please everyone, keep in mind the faliure of sony has nothing to do with how much you like the system. Sony is failing because of their inability to create a cheap, practical usage for a handheld system. It seems even the devkits are too expensive and as no one seems to give a $#@! about purchasing UMD games, why should the developers concider it? Its much cheaper, and apparently easier to continue developing for the PS2, Xbox, GC, and even the X360... not to mention that could just develop games on the DS with a higher sales and success rate... Sony failes at portable period.

Poor $ony At least homebrew will keep their little handheld alive!

[R4mbo]

There had been some Problems with the PSP.

The UMD Movies sucked and had been a big mistake of Sony. I dont know much about the Memorystick option, but i think i wont use both. I look my Videos on DvD. The only reason why i could buy Videos for PSP would be if you could connect the PSP to a Television (SCART Cable or stuff) like using the PSP as Video Player. I also dont thing the Nintendo will cause really Problems to Sony. I cant await High Quality releases on PSP like the PS1 Emu (even if I maybe wont buy/use it, just am interested) or Final Fantasy.

Go Nuts Article

[b8a]

What melodrama. (Many of) The exact same points could be made for the 360, and yet no ones counting that out yet.

The DS is the right level of technology at the right time. Sony has never released a console with "right now" in mind. They aim for (at least) a ten year life span, and let them gradually build momentum. As many people have pointed out, things are just starting to look good for the software lineup, and it's only going to get better over the next year or two. It's going to be interesting to see what next iteration of GB/DS Nintendo comes up with because when the PSP software quality peaks, all the DS will have going for it is the fact that it's cheap. And when Sony starts releasing value priced titles, that won't even be much of a factor.

I don't know what companies are saying that the devkit is too expensive. At around $5000 US, it's not only cheaper than most programmer's monthly salaries, it's a heck of a lot cheaper than a lot of 3D packages and other "nessecary" development tools. I've never priced other devkits, but it certainly sounds like a bargain to me.

It's WAY too early to call this system dead. End of story.

[shadowprophet]

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