Gaming do you agree the psp is a fail?

[Jamstruth]

what fails for me is only 1 stick. If it had 2 sticks it would be great and better for devs to port there ps2 games over to the psp, but since it only has 1 they have to change button layouts which makes a lot of games crap.

People go on about the lack of 2nd analogue stick but in my opinion such a thing would end up getting in the way and hinder more than help. Besides good luck playing decent shooters with only 2 shoulder buttons!

 

[themuddaload]

i play my PSP all the time. my DS collects dust.

and mhp3rd is coming! joy!

 

[issy12]

okay, so it may be a fail for SONY but for us, it's everything but a fail!

 

[omgpwn666]

I play my DS way more then my PSP, but I love my PSP and its home brew, such as the N64 emu, I really wanted Virtual Console on the DSi of N64.

I can still dream with the new 3DS coming out.

 

[Lily]

No, the PSP is not a failure at all in my opinion.

It has a library of great games, from ports to original spinoffs of almost all of Sony's major franchises. Even now, we've got recent games like Little Big Planet, and games on the way like Modnation Racers getting a simultaneous release on both platforms (PS3/PSP). It's great! Nintendo certainly doesn't have all of its major franchises with portable versions. You get games like Lego Indiana Jones/Batman for example, where the PSP versions are identical to their console versions, while the DS gets some weird completely different version of the game. Not to mention the games are all $40CDN and under, with plenty of deals to be found both at retail and at secondhand shops.

I'm not even getting into the benefits of a hacked PSP, because I feel that doesn't really count. Even if the PSP had never been hacked, the quality of its game library keeps it from being failure. The stuff you can do with it when it's hacked is just icing on an already pretty tasty cake.

..and..

As for everyone that says the PSP Go is a failure, as an owner I beg to differ. The two biggest negatives of the system are that the entire back catalogue of PSP titles is not available on PSN, and the price. The actual system itself is amazing. The screen is incredible, the d-pad and buttons are so much better than my -2000 that it's almost hard to believe it's the same system. If they lowered the price and improved some of the older title availability, I'll bet more people would be going out there and getting one. It's hands down the best iteration of the PSP so far.

/my two cents

 

[Guild McCommunist]

*post*

I agree with pretty much everything here. The PSP may not have as many games as say it's competitor, the DS, but it does get some phenomenal games. Like lil said, it gets basically ports of home console games with nothing lost except for graphics. Even then, some of the "dumbed down graphics" ports of these games aren't that bad. Dante's Inferno looks excellent and I thought it was a fantastic game. Better than Chains of Olympus, even. Standing against the DS, the PSP wins on all technical fronts, from functionality to graphics. And it's got a good library, too. I'd say the DS has a better library, but that's not to say the PSP has a bad one. It's got tons of solid original titles and some equally good remakes on there.

The only thing I have to pseudo debate is the Go. Really, the only thing that's a problem now is it's lack of UMD support or any way to transfer your previously owned UMD games to your Go. I don't care how limited the library of downloadable games is, so long as I can go out and buy a physical copy of the game and have a code or something to get a version of it on my Go. As for the price, it was a ridiculous $300 at price, but it's now at about $250 brand new. Considering PSP 3000 bundles which include a game run for $200 (and most Go systems come with a code for a game or something IIRC), it's a $50 difference, which is comparable between the gap of the DSL to the DSi. It's just that former PSP owners want to upgrade to a Go, but you can't really upgrade if you still have to use your older system to play games.

 

[themuddaload]

yeah, they need a system like steam has, where if you own an older game, you can get a free digital copy.

 

[UltraMagnus]

As for everyone that says the PSP Go is a failure, as an owner I beg to differ. The two biggest negatives of the system are that the entire back catalogue of PSP titles is not available on PSN, and the price. The actual system itself is amazing. The screen is incredible, the d-pad and buttons are so much better than my -2000 that it's almost hard to believe it's the same system. If they lowered the price and improved some of the older title availability, I'll bet more people would be going out there and getting one. It's hands down the best iteration of the PSP so far.

they said something similar about the sega game gear

 

[steve-p]

i love my psp.

there are new games every day - you just need to look.
http://ludibria.com/index.php?sys=psp

and as for firmware 6.20 - it only effects 3 games.
2 of those 3 arent playable unless you can understand some japanesse anyway.

for the rest - edecrypt does the job.


as for no good games - i'm lost for words.

"mai hime" series,
"higurashi daybreak portable
mahou shoujo lyrical nanoha
fate - unlimited codes

i could list fantastic games here for hours!

 

[don_eno]

psp is better than the ds as a console and has better games but very few while the ds has a lot of good games.

 

[retKHAAAN]

I'd have to give the PSP a fail as a handheld when used in a fully legitimate way. The only game I've been compelled to finish is Crisis Core. Pre-Ordered Dissidia and was supremely disappointed.

Having said that, from a homebrew standpoint, I think the PSP is by far the superior handheld.

 

[benjaminlibl]

No, your title is fail.

Can't believe you're asking this in the PSP section..

 

[8BitWalugi]

Gee, i only bought my psp for cfw and emulators/homebrew. I buy the occasional good game like crisis core and dissidea.
Bold: Same reason here.
Italic: >Dissidia
>Crisis Core
>Good Games
lol

QUOTE(megawalk @ Apr 5 2010, 08:10 PM) i for one thought gundam assault survive to be a great game.

You sure you don't mean Next Plus?

 

[tenkai]

with the newest version of the psp it cant be hacked into i guess that makes the system worse

 

[Deleted member 158512]

^ a system not being able to be hacked doesn't make it a failure. It just means the PSP hacking scene is a failure. That's a completely different topic (and one that usually gets locked, lol)

Granted the only titles I've enjoyed this year are Kenka Banchou 4 and Gundam Assault Survive, but just because we aren't getting hit with 4 or 5 'exciting' titles every season doesn't mean the system is a failure. I mean, do you think the Game Cube was a failure? Wait, wait, don't answer that!

 

[steve-p]

it's traditional with sony that the first product is the best.
all subsequent versions are just to cut production costs once the product has a good rep.

take the psx,
first release had a cpu-bus, phono outputs, minidin output, serial port etc.

by the time the u.s. & europe got it the minidin output had vanished!
then the bus & phono's vanished!

ps2 lost it's hard-drive bay, firewire-port & a lot of heatsinking internally bit by bit.

now ps3 is out - and shrinking.
original had ps2 compatability, loads of usb's and a multi-card-reader.
latest has 2 usb and no card-readers or super-cd playback or ps2 and now they pulled the Linux from it.
i suspect they did that because Linux on a ps3 made a great blueray ripper - it could rip, decrypt and divx encode in one pass.

 

[IgiveUgas]

If you're looking at it without cfw then I would say yes. There is only a handful of games that I like on the PSP compared to my DS. With cfw though, it rocks. Mmmm emulation.

 

[steve-p]

emulation.

hmm.... well i use it to emulate a UMD

 

[CJL18]

^ a system not being able to be hacked doesn't make it a failure. It just means the PSP hacking scene is a failure. That's a completely different topic (and one that usually gets locked, lol)

Granted the only titles I've enjoyed this year are Kenka Banchou 4 and Gundam Assault Survive, but just because we aren't getting hit with 4 or 5 'exciting' titles every season doesn't mean the system is a failure. I mean, do you think the Game Cube was a failure? Wait, wait, don't answer that!

yes i do imo nintendo worst creation ever besides the virtual boy

 

[Deleted member 158512]

^ a system not being able to be hacked doesn't make it a failure. It just means the PSP hacking scene is a failure. That's a completely different topic (and one that usually gets locked, lol)

Granted the only titles I've enjoyed this year are Kenka Banchou 4 and Gundam Assault Survive, but just because we aren't getting hit with 4 or 5 'exciting' titles every season doesn't mean the system is a failure. I mean, do you think the Game Cube was a failure? Wait, wait, don't answer that!

yes i do imo nintendo worst creation ever besides the virtual boy

I think the difference with the PSP is that Sony is actually kind-of sort-of trying. With the Game Cube, they had very few good exclusives (considerably less at the end of its run), and the price of multi-platform games were double what the same game would cost on the PS2. With the PSP, anything that isn't some garbage port (or I should say 'adaptation') is an exclusive, at least in Japan. I don't think they're quite ready to phase out the PSP yet (though they weren't ready to phase out the PS2 last year either

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