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Sequels Turning Off Game Consumers
Next Generation reports that the constant trend towards game sequels is lowering interest among game consumers. From the article: "A weak consumer environment leaves us questioning whether sales will rebound sufficiently to drive growth for the full year. In particular, consumers appear to be indifferent to the proliferation of sequels, indicating a slow start to holiday sales and risk of continuing weakness." That, right there, is the problem with the PSP's library at the moment.
Seriously, I can play by revision number wipeout 5, twisted metal 6 (or seven?), star wars battlefront 2, Ridge racer 8 (its the eigth revision released), ape escape 4, or Grand theft auto 5. Luminies is original, as is untold legents (original but horrible), Metal gear acid is also original. Why sony doesnt make any original games for this system is beyond me...I rented "infected" just to get and original game, and man is it pretty redundant, and I also rented "legend of heroes" and its pretty generic RPG, but seeing as its the ONLY decent RPG for the system that means its okay. What few orignal games there exist are not the best games. The PSP library really stinks, and I am a avid gamer and own every major system except a Nintendo DS, and the PSP has even a worse catalogue of releases than the Gamecube, or even the Gameboy Advance which has been replaced by its successor the Nintendo DS and still is comming out with more and better and more original games than the PSP (Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones, Gunstar Heroes, Rivera, Sigma Star Saga). Just buy a Playstation 2 or a Xbox, and buy the games you want for those systems, they will look and control better than the PSP version since the controls on the PSP are pretty awful, since besides the games on the PSP being watered down ports of sequels for home consoles, the analog control nub is way over responsive and the digital pad is the one of the worst I have ever used and makes fighting games nearly impossible, which sucks because Darkstalkers Chronicles (anohter sequel) is a great fighting game but I cant pull off any fancy moves. I will admit I play it quite a bit, but thats only because I bought star wars battlefront 2 for it and I Play it while I am waiting for DVD's to burn or stuff to download...not its a decent way to kill time...but the game is so much better on the xbox its crazy. As with most PSP games they cut out major portions of the game, no online mode, no story mode, missing maps, missing vehicles, missing playable characters etc....its really watered down.
Nintendo DS has way better games, I am just waiting for the Nintendo DS SP so i wont have to carry around a dual screen system the size of a freaking brick...seriously. If you want something that plays music and movies, buy a video Ipod, a video ipod is the same price as a PSP and a decent sized memory stick or a PSP and a game....and my ipod is used way more than my psp. My combination of Ipod video and Gameboy micro pretty much solves all my travel entertainment needs, I can play excellent and original games on my gameboy micro and can I play movies and music from the ipod and can fit roughly 100 times more than on the PSP and can output them to a tv at friends houses via the ipod av cable, which the psp cannot do. And both the Ipod and the gameboy micro take up the same room in my pocket as the psp.