Is There Anything Wrong With The PSP?

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.'"

Comments

Yes, there is

[stratjakt]

It costs too much.

Its load times are obnoxious for a portable.

It's too big to stick in your pocket.

The control scheme is awkward.

The games suck.

The battery life sucks.

Nobody wants to buy movies again on UMD.

It is a steaming pile of dogshit. The fact that they have to resort to slashvertisement phony-news articles to sell it is proof of that.

And c'mon now, daddy pants, own up to it.. All the PSP stories you post are part of the paid "all i want for xmas" campaign aren't they?

I mean, I cant understand a geek site giving a fuck about it. It's an n-gage that cant make phone calls.

Re:Yes, there is

[stratjakt]

Wow, that was a quick down-mod. I'll take that as a "yes" to my "is sony paying you to pimp their shit" question.

It's amazing how Sony releases - by no means superior - consoles (PSP and PS3), jacks the cost up to the moon and expects them to sell on the virtue of "can play movies in a new format so you can buy all new movies".

Then they get all shocked when they don't sell, and use silly "subversive advertising" schemes to generate "buzz".

They need to know that those types of schemes only generate "buzz" when there's "buzz" to be generated. Ilovebees.com worked for MSFT because Halo was a great game. The same scheme wouldn't have sold any copies of "mike tyson boxing", because it was a pile of shit.

Pro-tip to Sony: It isnt the 90s, people have owned video game consoles in the past. They know what shit is when they see it. They know that when all you can do is read off theoretical tech specs, you are talking shit.

Proof? The PS3 marks the SECOND time in the last few years that Nintendo has kicked your ass with a "technically inferior" offering.

Clue the fuck in.

Re:Yes, there is

[flitty]

I'm sorry, but i have to call bullshit on the battery life issue. My psp will die after 6 hours (if i'm luckY)... and my DS can go upwards of 18 or so hours.

Funny, I just put mine in my pocket with no problem and I have the Mad Catz clamshell on it which increases the size quite a bit.

You must have massive pockets. I can stick it in my front pocket, only if i'm standing, and if i don't have anything else. My ds on the other hand, will fit comfortably next to my ipod in my front pocket with little interference.

Re:It's owned by Sony

[erroneus]

Sony is worse than that. Sony has pretty much messed up PDAs and PCs/Notebooks. I haven't looked at their TVs lately and I have a 6+ year old camcorder that I haven't had any prolems with, but given the horrible experiences I have had with their other stuff, I'm having a really bad opinion of anything with the Sony name on it. Oh yeah, the Sony battery problems and the Sony/BMG rootkit issues have also been weighed into my opinion.