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Is There Anything Wrong With The PSP?

Posted by Zonk on from the nothing-a-good-redesign-wouldn't-cure dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In the latest 'Analyze This' series of exclusive Gamasutra features, analysts from Screen Digest, ABI Research and DFC Intelligence look at what Sony and developers can do to improve the PSP platform, to generate more excitement for it among developers, gamers and the industry overall — or if they even need to. 'My feelings on the PSP are mixed: It has shown there is demand for a more high-end portable system. The portable market has room for two competing portable systems. We forecast that over the next five years dedicated portable systems will sell just as many units as the new console systems. However, the PSP could really use a new model. This has been the secret to Nintendo's success.'"

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  1. um games? by minus_273 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    i suspect the main thing the psp needs are games and not UMD movies. All th PSP has are broken ports and the occasional remix. There is a reason why they have a ps1 emulator on it and most people use it for homebrew.

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  2. Encourage homebrew by Threni · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Stop spending time, effort and money deliberately making it hard for people to develop their own software. Sony should be encouraging that, not making it harder. (They could reinstate lik-sang and pay them damages, too).

    1. Re:Encourage homebrew by MeanderingMind · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I don't know about you, but when I look at the PSP and the PS3 I see the tears of engineers.

      Somethine deep down inside me says, "A team of engineers poured their heart and soul into this, working with the crappy ideas marketing thrust upon them and doing their utmost to take their crap and make something beautiful." The end results may not be magnificent, but I can tell that someone tried to push them in the right direction.

      The PR people need more than a slap in the face. They need to be dragged down to the R&D people and be forced to beg for forgiveness.

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  3. Sell off Sony Music / Movie Divisions by rlp · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sony needs to stop allowing their movie / music division to dictate to their consumer electronics division. They added UMD movies to the PSP that nobody wants. They added Blu-Ray to PS/3 and slipped their schedule out a year and added hundreds of dollars to the consoles cost. They keep putting all sorts of unwanted DRM into everything. Sell it off and get back to making well-designed consumer electronics.

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