Oh Sony, you really need to stop saying that each year will be "the year of" something, because when it invariably isn't, you look like a real prat. I know, you're not listening, so go right ahead and claim that 2009 will be the year of the PSP. Clearly 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 were all practice years.
"I also think 2009 is going to be the year of the PSP," claimed PlayStation Canada's PR boy Mark Levitan. "We have Resistance: Retribution coming in February but I’ve seen a lot of the stuff in development and it is not a mistake by any means to a buy a PSP now."
The PlayStation Portable has been around for four years, and it has failed to have the robust library or developer support that the technically inferior DS has accumulated. Don't get me wrong, I adore my PSP just as much as my DS, but I really wish Sony would stop talking and start doing. Sure, Resistance is heading to the PSP, but what then? The release schedule for this year and next is pathetically thin, and of that list, not even a handful of enthralling games are evident.
I don't think my PSP, for what games are on it, was a mistake. But at the same time, it gathers dust for long periods of time while the DS spoils me for choice. I crave a reason to turn my PSP on, and right now, Sony isn't giving me one. It's merely giving me promise after promise, just like usual.
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9:25 AM on 10.23.2008
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Loads of games on that (Driver, Syphon Filter... etc). Looks like I'm gonna waste alot of £3.49's on that.
It's really sad how little of a long term impact MGS4 had, AMAZING game, but everybody forgot about it once they stopped showing Ads in media.
And this PSP Resistance game? I don't know, GOW chains of olympus is pretty fucking insane, I don't think any game has topped that game in terms of pushing the PSP's power. Chains of Olympus pretty much defeats the idea of not being able to create engrossing portable games.
Everybody know though, if they made a component to Little Big Planet that would play on PSP, then the PSP would sell like fucking hotcakes.
Ya if they made a LBP esque game, that would be amazing, and be a DO BUY!
Not that I do that. But still. SIX GOLDEN COINS GANGSTA!
Dissdia and Birth By Sleep look amazing, anything else is just a bonus. I will definitely buy those games.
I hate metal pipes, they get super hot, they're a bitch to clean, and the bowl is tiny. Go with a nice glass.
I use both my PSP and my DS fairly equally and I think their selection of games is comparable if we throw out all the garbage (of which the DS has a lot more). It's all a matter of preference. The DS isn't doing better at sales because it's got more games. It's because it's the cheaper of the two systems.
We've seen it in every generation previous and we'll continue to see it as long as consoles are made. Cheap is what people look for. Let's not forget of course that Nintendo already had the stranglehold on the handheld market when Sony first came along.