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The Fifth Birthday PSP Thread
maximumzero
I...wait, what?New Orleans, LARegistered User regular
I...wait, what?New Orleans, LARegistered User regular
Happy Fifth Birthday, Playstation Portable!
From Wikipedia:
The Playstation Portable (officially abbreviated PSP) is a handheld game console manufactured and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment. Development of the console was announced during E3 2003, and it was unveiled on May 11, 2003 at a Sony press conference before E3 2004. The system was released in Japan on December 12, 2004,in North America on March 24, 2005, and in the PAL region on September 1, 2005.
The PlayStation Portable is the first handheld video game console to use an optical disc format, Universal Media Disc (UMD), as its primary storage medium. Other distinguishing features of the console include its large viewing screen, robust multi-media capabilities, and connectivity with the PlayStation 3, other PSPs, and the Internet.
Sales of the PSP have (with cyclical exceptions) lagged behind its main competitor, the Nintendo DS. Nevertheless, the console is "the most successful non-Nintendo handheld game system ever sold". After the release of a remodeled, slimmer, and lighter version of the PlayStation Portable, titled Slim & Lite, in early September 2007, sales quadrupled in the United Kingdom the following week and increased by nearly 200% in North America for the month of October. The Slim & Lite had a minor redesign including a new screen and inbuilt microphone, and has since been followed by the PSP Go.
The PSP first dropped in the US on March 24th, 2005, in Japan a little over 4 months earlier, and in Europe about 6 months later in September.
So let's celebrate 5 years of PSP! What are your experiences with the system? Do you have one? What are your favorite games? Let's hear your stories.
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That and I'd hafta mod the crap out of it to play SNES/etc. stuff on it.
I was given one a few years later and besides the occasional game of Lumines or SFA3 it mainly collects dust while holding down important paper work on my desk.
I don't think the launch PSP-1000 was well built at all, seeing as how mine came to pieces after a very short fall onto a not entirely soft not entirely hard surface.
My "new" PSP-2000 however is decently well constructed and can go for more than 4 hours without a charge.
It's still the only portable system I've ever regretted buying and I own the Lynx, Virtual Boy, a crate full of NGPC, a Game Gear or Two, a Nomad, and yes, a Virtual Boy. It's odd because good games are out on it now but whenever I pick it up I realize I'd rather be doing something else.
I love it, but I don't play it.
And then not to mention the rise of the iPhone, which kinda killed any momentum it had for multimedia features. Also, Sony flip flopped on the system so much and was never really sure what it was supposed to be.
In summary: We don't play our PSPs because there's just so much to take our attention away from it, not due to any lack of quality.
Pretty much. My iPhone serves every last bit of mobile multimedia, Internet access, communication, reading (eBooks), and occasional casual gaming (like Bejeweled, the kind you can wrap up while taking a dump). So all that leaves is gaming. I realize that the games on the PSP are, in my opinion, far superior - I just can't be bothered to carry the thing around and worry about recharging it.
I basically only use it on flights, long drives, and the occasional Summer evening when I just want to lie in the grass while the dog walks himself.
Now I have a DS and an iPod Touch and I just don't miss it.
It's a shame as it was a gorgeous piece of kit, but there's no room in my life for another anymore.
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I generally will play at least half an hour before bed, and I take it with me to school. All I do is play (legit) games on it, though I kinda wish I had one of the older, easier to modify ones so I could play older games on it.
Wow that made me laugh a lot. How does such a thing happen?
Patapon is insidiously addictive. Good thing BioShock 2 came out, or I would be playing it still.
I've had the same problems with it that everyone else in this thread does
It's nice but nowhere near as good or as deep as my Lite, which I've owned three of and played the fuck out of
Eh. It'll all be worth it when the absolute best game on the system (VC 2) comes out later this year
I had a cat that would on occassions pee on my bedroom floor if the litter tray wasn't immaculate. The PSP along with a half dozen books were lying on said floor when he decided to strike one night. I picked up the psp next day to play some Lumines and what appeared to be a gallon of piss gushed out of it. One dead PSP there and then.
Little fucker very nearly got a free castration that day.
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But with those monies I'll be buying a few PSP games; got my eye on Pursuit Force: Extreme Justice and Ridge Racer 2 for starters.
It's on PS2. And PSN. And Live. And I wouldn't be surprised if it's on WiiWare.
Hell, if it weren't for Square Enix, I probably wouldn't even own a PSP (since every game I do own is from them, save PixelJunk Monsters Deluxe, which caused many sleepless nights)
I'm the kind of person who really just chills around the house and plays handhelds, rarely using them during travel.
But I still got rid of it because it's really hard for me to appreciate handhelds
EDIT: Also I have to do it whenever I see one of these anniversary/retrospective threads; dibs on the PS2 one!
Jesus was I the only one who read what Raggie said before Teth?
Anyone else excited about the new Ace Combat in the works?
I just really hate the D-pad though. It's so bad. The nub helps when you can use either/or, but in games like Powered Up you need the D-pad. The hardest part in that whole game, and I beat it with every character on every difficulty, was one jump in Time Man's stage or whatever his name was that required you to grab a ladder over spikes. You need to press diagonally up and right to grab it, and that is so hard to do on the PSP D-pad. I died countless times from just not grabbing the ladder. I think there's exactly one more jump like it in the Wily stages, but the ladder is longer.
I'd go so far as to say it's my favourite handheld console.
Oh my god, I know that jump! I can't even remember how many lives I lost to it.
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Minus the cat pee, this is pretty much my experience. I'm a huge portable gaming fan, but the combination of 1) going back to school and not working as much, reducing my morning-commuter gaming time, and 2) getting an iPhone, meant that the PSP has been warming the bench for nearly the past 8 months. I actually ended up selling all of my games, and will end up selling or trading in the 2000 itself soon; I didn't see anything on the horizon that really called out to me, and I needed the Amazon credit for books.
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My PSP made my hands cramp so bad I couldn't play it for more than half an hour. Then I got these, and now it's more comfortable to hold than the DS, with extra battery life to boot.
All in all I think it's a pretty nice system, and it really has to be to have made it this far against Nintendo. I only wish Sony would advertise the thing a little more.