Bottom line – the PSP as a gaming system is absolutely kick ass! Period! While the current crop of 2 dozen or so titles


.. 2 dozen!! Nintendo can barely hit double digits in 5 months and Sony has knocked out 2 dozen in just over 30 days with more released each week, is this fact lost on you guys? Anyway while these titles are not revolutionary they play almost as well on a handheld as they do on a console. Has anyone else been able to accomplish this yet? No. No Game boy has even game close. They always had good handheld games which you played because you needed your gaming fix on the road. But given the choice I think most would go for the quality of the PSP over ANY handheld system any day. And BTW I wasn’t in the market for a PDA or a convergence device when I got this. GPS? What the hell do you expect me to do with this thing? It’s a gaming system that happens to play movies extremely well and music less well but at least it is capable. I am not brining it to the Austrailian Outback so that I can rely in it to help me navigate my way home. I mean I can sit on my couch and wirelessly play a game of NBA against some kid in Ohio!!! Has playing online really become that unimpressive that the fact I can do it with a portable with little hassle is not a major plus? Maybe I missed it but I am still impressed with online cooperative gaming, I don’t look at it as just another tired feature we have seen before, but some reviewers treat it as if it has been readily available on all systems for the last 15 years. It’s just hitting its prime. The PSP’s ability, and the DS’s current inability to date, is an obvious example of that.

When I go to the store and buy a portable gaming system I have relatively few choices. But the latest and the greatest is the PSP vs. the DS and quite frankly the DS should just be honored to be mentioned in the same breath as the PSP. Save the promise of “revolutionary”, I am tired of it. When I buy it I want to be able to play it, not wait months on end for a decent game, just a DECENT game not even great, to hit the shelves. The PSP has passed just about every test with flying colors. It is sad so many reviewers rather not see that and instead focus on what could be better. Christ they sold 600,000 units with little advertising to the mass market over EASTER weekend. They didn’t have thousands of distraught mothers looking to stick just about anything in little Billy’s Xmas stocking to pickup their DS with no thought of the ability to buy new games a month or two down the line.

As for Sony’s inane practices in regards to digital rights and conversion software, etc… I agree 100%. They still have yet to learn to side with the consumer over the suits in their boardrooms. And trust me if they didn’t learn from the MD mess they never will. But as far as handheld gaming in concerned they have hit a home run that is only going to get better.

And one last thing; I am not sure where you heard Untold Legends was sub par but it’s obviously not from the people who play these games. Spend a bit of time on gaming message boards and read what real people who spend money on these games have to say instead of some reviewers take on a genre of game he or she is probably not inclined to like. You might be surprised.

And honestly if you really think that the launch titles for the PSP were not up to par. This is coming from someone who owns a DS (and ia planning on selling it). I was very impressed by the quality of great titles that are avaliable for the PSP when it launched, on the other hand their isn’t much that I would love to play on my DS.

Right now it just sits on my desk collecting dust. I never should have bought the damn thing in the first place.

If Rockstar can at least give us the option to make cars pop up much further away, or not at all on the PC, I’d be all over it like brown on rice.

Fuck you Rockstar and your marvelous titles that distract me from the things I need to be doing, as opposed to the things I want to be doing…and delaying them. You glorious ass holes.

twisted metal along with ridge racer is enough to hold me off until gta:sp, final fantasy sp, etc are inevitably released.

the psp doesn’t need to be a gps device/cellphone/pda/thermonuclear device detonator. it needs to be a great portable console, so let’s focus on that.