Yahoo says PSP is dead

[noiseredux]

http://videogames.yahoo.com/feature/goo ... sp/1276225


I love my PSP. But not for PSP games. I use it everyday to listen to music on my commute, to check the internet when I'm away from my computer. I even ordered the damn camera.

If Sony would #1 open it up for homebrewers to make awesome apps like the iPhone has, and if they'd really sell it as the incredible multimedia device it is, then they'd really help themselves out. They need to (officially) implement YouTube, get the camera and the GPS released in the US and maybe upgrade it to be the fully functioning phone it could be as well.

Sony seems to have figured out with the PS3 that giving users the ability to truly customize the device (ie: alternate operating systems) open up a world of possibilities and attract tons of project-minded geeks. (Though I'm still not happy about the lack of backwards compatability on the PS3). I'm just saying Sony needs to re-evalutate their already great mobile device and give the people what they want. If the popularity of the system would boost back up, then the great games would inevitably follow from 3rd parties.

Yr thoughts?

[D.D.D.]

Well seeing how there are really no games that I gotta have on the PSP and I've yet to see how "perfect" emulators are (mainly SNES, Gen, TG-16, NES, and Neo Geo), I can't say that I disagree with that sentiment on how "dead" it is.

[Scooter]

I love my PSP too, but the DS is outselling it for the same reason the Wii is still flying off the shelves: Nintendo kept them SIMPLE. They are game devices, not a "solve all your problems" devices. The ridiculous complexity and associated cost (along with a now lack of backward compatibility) is what has kept me from buying a PS3 all along. I want to play GAMES, in my own HOME, by MYSELF or with a friend in the same room with me. I know, I know, I'm probably not exactly the target market for the current generation of game machines for these very reasons.

I probably use my PSP as a music player as much as a game machine. I've only ever been online with it once and I doubt I'd know how to get it set up to do it again (I don't even have a wireless modem at home so what's the point). I biggest gripe with the PSP is it needs to have greater access to more movies. Why have they never embraced the whole movie downloads thing more broadly? It would be a great way to sell a lot of movies and subsequently more and larger memory sticks and we wouldn't have to lug around those cute little UMDs. I also wish I could watch TV on my PSP and the GSP device has been delayed WAAAY too long.

I think a lot of Sony's woes with the PSP has been Sony's business practices not inherantly the great little device they designed.

[racketboy]

http://videogames.yahoo.com/feature/goo ... sp/1276225


I love my PSP. But not for PSP games. I use it everyday to listen to music on my commute, to check the internet when I'm away from my computer. I even ordered the damn camera.

If Sony would #1 open it up for homebrewers to make awesome apps like the iPhone has, and if they'd really sell it as the incredible multimedia device it is, then they'd really help themselves out. They need to (officially) implement YouTube, get the camera and the GPS released in the US and maybe upgrade it to be the fully functioning phone it could be as well.

Sony seems to have figured out with the PS3 that giving users the ability to truly customize the device (ie: alternate operating systems) open up a world of possibilities and attract tons of project-minded geeks. (Though I'm still not happy about the lack of backwards compatability on the PS3). I'm just saying Sony needs to re-evalutate their already great mobile device and give the people what they want. If the popularity of the system would boost back up, then the great games would inevitably follow from 3rd parties.

Yr thoughts?

It think embracing it as an open platform would be a good idea.
Unfortunately, this is Sony we're talking about. They have the potential to make it a mobile platform in the ranks of iPhone and Android, but their too stubborn.

[noiseredux]

I think that the Wii and DS outselling PS3 and PSP isn't completely because Nintendo kept it "simple." I think it's more because the Wii and DS cater more to casual gamers. Nintendo's marketing has been incredible, and they've convinced your non-gaming family members that they need to own a Wii so that their family can workout with Wii Fit or can learn to cook dinner with DS Recipes or whatever it's called.

Really Nintendo has just figured out how to capitalize on a previously non-existent market. Meaning, the demographic they went after were people that didn't even play video games. It seems to me that the new generation of Nintendo fans are barely "gamers."

[superlarz]

PSP is dead because no one wants to develop for it. As a portable system, I love it and will continue to play it... but for the most part I play retro Roms, not PSP games... and this is not because I wont buy games, its that I have played almost everything that interests me.... and now have little else new to play... I am looking forward to the Resistance game early next year though..

[Scooter]

I think that the Wii and DS outselling PS3 and PSP isn't completely because Nintendo kept it "simple." I think it's more because the Wii and DS cater more to casual gamers.

Well, wouldn't you agree that these systems appeal to the casual gamer BECAUSE they are simple to use? I think we are saying the exact same thing, just from different directions.

[corn619]

I think that the Wii and DS outselling PS3 and PSP isn't completely because Nintendo kept it "simple." I think it's more because the Wii and DS cater more to casual gamers.

Well, wouldn't you agree that these systems appeal to the casual gamer BECAUSE they are simple to use? I think we are saying the exact same thing, just from different directions.

I might be misunderstanding what you guys are saying but, PSP has anythng but a easy to use status behind it. Between firmware updates, the way you put music, photos and video on it, battery life and load times I can see how a casual gamer can be scared away from the PSP. I love mine but, I use my DS a lot more due to portability and durability.

[noiseredux]

I think that the Wii and DS outselling PS3 and PSP isn't completely because Nintendo kept it "simple." I think it's more because the Wii and DS cater more to casual gamers.

Well, wouldn't you agree that these systems appeal to the casual gamer BECAUSE they are simple to use? I think we are saying the exact same thing, just from different directions.

I might be misunderstanding what you guys are saying but, PSP has anythng but a easy to use status behind it. Between firmware updates, the way you put music, photos and video on it, battery life and load times I can see how a casual gamer can be scared away from the PSP. I love mine but, I use my DS a lot more due to portability and durability.

I agree that the PSP is very easy to use. It actually has a great look/feel to the XMB. But What I meant was that the Wii and DS libraries are pretty full of games aimed at non-gamers. Y'know, like party games that anyone who has never played a video game (your mom) can pick up in a couple of minutes.

[Ramatut4001]

I think that the Wii and DS outselling PS3 and PSP isn't completely because Nintendo kept it "simple." I think it's more because the Wii and DS cater more to casual gamers.

Well, wouldn't you agree that these systems appeal to the casual gamer BECAUSE they are simple to use? I think we are saying the exact same thing, just from different directions.

I might be misunderstanding what you guys are saying but, PSP has anythng but a easy to use status behind it. Between firmware updates, the way you put music, photos and video on it, battery life and load times I can see how a casual gamer can be scared away from the PSP. I love mine but, I use my DS a lot more due to portability and durability.

Video, yes. Music and photos? Drag and drop. But seriously, where's the divx support?