 PSP Dead for Good or Second Life Coming?
Published: October 23, 2006, 11:38 PM CST
By chairmansteve
What are the major problems for PSP?- Too Expensive
- No Killer Apps
- Poor Battery Life
- Long Load Times
- Optical Media
The first three are correctable. The 4th, long load times, could be somewhat correctable in a redesign with a file cache (Flash or RAM). The 5th, optical media, is not the best choice for a handheld system, but it's too late to change that decision. Hey! Three or four out of five ain't bad! That's 60-80%.
There are four things left for PSP before it's all over.- Price Drops
- Gran Turismo
- Killer App New Property
- Hardware Redesign
The price drops should come. Gran Turismo will eventually come, and that franchise has a mountain of blockheads following. GT could also be successful on a handheld. The killer app new property, something for the mainstream casual handheld gamer, may never come. A redesign is almost guaranteed; we might see that in 2007 and again in 2009.
Most people probably have already forgotten the location of PSP's grave, but I think PSP still has a slim chance to return from the dead. So get ready for a possible Round Two in the current handheld war.
Your thoughts? | | | Comments | October 25, 2006, 9:03 AM by monsly to MustangSVT
The UMD movie selling point was always a bit of a dead duck; I especially loved the great hope they had for the adapter to play PSP movies on a TV setting the world alight. Yeah, the world is crying for a system that runs an inferior format to DVDs and has the bonus of being far more clunky to use than even a basic home DVD player. Genius - just genius. | October 25, 2006, 10:10 AM by The_Joker to monsly
Makes perfect sense. A disc has to be spun for the data to be accessed which both takes time and drains battery. | October 25, 2006, 11:00 AM by MustangSVT
I don't know about the battery life using memory stick instead of UMD, but I do know that loading times are way better. In Pro Evo 5 for example, takes an additional minute or minute and a half to get to the actual game versus loading the game off the memory stick. | October 26, 2006, 9:21 PM by kenneth9265
okay....how do people call a gaming system that have sold more then 20 million world wide in less then two years dead? | October 26, 2006, 9:23 PM by MustangSVT
Not exactly sure. I happen to love my PSP in every single way. However, from a market perspective (how many games and UMD movies they're selling), it's not doing well at all.
It's worth mentioning that I have found some "holy grail" games on PSP though, and not everyone might. I originally bought my PSP to play Winning Eleven (Pro Evolution Soccer) and this game is fantastic on PSP, and I also got it so that I could play the F1 and WRC Rally game. Both of these games are quite good (for me), but they're not great by any means. However, Dragonball Z Shin Budokai along with Street Fighter Alpha are just absolutely great. I love both of these games to death. But like I said, other people may not. Most other people seem to prefer DS games like Starfox and Mario Kart. | |
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