PSP is over.

[group.owner]

I think PSP is over. Look for PSP 2. What do you think?

[GERALDINE (GTS²黒)]

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh what ?

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 5:22 PM, group.owner <intern...@gmail.com> wrote:

I think PSP is over. Look for PSP 2. What do you think?

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[Mitchell Stover]

No the psp just doesn't have enough market size to make a massive dent in the handheld market..  The nintendo ds though has pokemon and mario which are classics for younger kids who would have no interest in 95% of all the psp games.   Also the handheld market is more aimed for and used by people from the ages of 6-21. Because of this the ds has more potential and because of its price it just harder for the psp to succed.

 P.S. I own a psp and love it ;)

This is the way the world ends not with a whimper but a bang.

[GERALDINE (GTS²黒)]

What is the PSP 2 crap?

I thought the "PSP 2" was the "PSP Slim"

I also LOVE my PSP.

-geraldine

[bolddoughnut]

i think it is i have heard nothing of a psp 2

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[group.owner]

Touch Screen, UMD-free, PSP2 - experts claim
But UMD safe for now. Industry experts predict future of Sony's
handheld
Words: PSM3 UK


Sony's PSP2 will feature a touch-screen, with UMD's ditched in favour
of internal flash memory game downloads and improved PS3 link-up -
predicts a panel of industry experts recently polled by PSM3. "What
Sony needs to do now is ride it (PSP) out until their next portable
machine and try for a restart", reveals respected technology journal
Wired's Chris Kohler, "Maybe add a touch screen. That's certainly an
excellent time to get rid of UMD."

UMD, however, is safe for now, predicts Kohler - and the recent PSP
price drop may mean an influx of new games. "The PSP, like most
consumer devices that undergo a price drop, is selling substantially
better than it was before it was $170. As shown at CES,Sony's focus
would now seem to be the transformation of PSP into an all-in-one fun
productivity gadget with various add-ons and firmware updates, which
might keep things moving along at an acceptable pace."

UMD NOT RIP
"But this growth might also actually stimulate some software
development, which went off a cliff at some point last year. But in
terms of cheaper casual titles - no more big-budget flops. They've
gotten burned with those and the feeling won't go away during PSP's
lifecycle. PSP in its current form won't get any more major
operations, like the excising of UMD that people seem to be in a tizzy
predicting. That can't happen."

UMD has a deeper strategic value at retail, argues leading
development website Gamasutra's Senior Editor Brandon Sheffield.
"Though the UMD format hasn't exactly caught on, it gives Sony more
shelf-space, something they might be keen to keep up with Nintendo
(DS) encroaching on their space". Sheffield is unperturbed by Sony's
recent announcement that Blu-ray discs will come bundled with a PSP
version of the film. "As far as Blu-ray content, I don't think that
will contribute to phasing out UMDs until such time as the PS3
installed base is proved to be as large as or larger than the UMD
movie-buying population - and that those groups are similar and have
similar purchasing habits."

"I do however thing that Blu-Ray-to-PSP is a much more enticing
proposition than buying UMDs separately, for a host of obvious reasons
- not the least of which is the allure of effectively buying one movie
for two formats. I think consumers will like it, and I'm sure Sony has
built in some online reporting system to the PS3 that allows them to
see if customers are making use of the service."


GAME DOWNLOADS
A flash-based PSP2, which lets you download games to internal memory,
is only a matter of time, asserts Sheffield. "Sony doesn't want to
anger retailers, but why should they care so much anyway? More and
more people buy even physical hardware online, and the retailers that
had a booming year just recently did so because of used game sales,
which don't benefit the industry at all. Regardless, a PSP with a
flash drive just makes sense, what with the ability to download PSone
games to it, and all of that. The pitfalls are piracy, which may
increase (and is already rampant), and retail anger. I think it's
coming though."

Industry veteran, and respected developer, Dave Perry (of Earthworm
Jim and Enter the Matrix fame), is also convinved UMD will die, and
that PSP2 (or even PSP3) has the opportunity to clean up the
opposition. "I've been publicly flogging the UMD drive for a long
time, it's useless in a digital world. Would Apple put a UMD drive in
the PSP if they designed it? Not in a million bloody years. So I'm
operating on the "3rd time's a charm" concept, Sony will get the PSP
right on attempt number 3. (My fingers are crossed right now.)"

DIGITAL FUTURE
Perry thinks Nintendo's slowly-does-it approach to DS updates presents
Sony with a key opportunity. "Nintendo is in super-slow iteration mode
on the Gameboy, one minor step at a time has been their history, the
next rumor is (yawn) that both screens are touch sensitive. Well
that's just great. That means that Sony can leave them for dead as
when Nintendo gets around to coming up with a digital store it will
likely be just as poor an attempt as the one they built for the Wii."

"So Sony needs to get the pedal to the metal, they have no
competition. Go buy the new iPod touch from Apple, they REMOVED the
option to download games into it! This is even better for Sony.
Nintendo is moving at 2 miles an hour and Apple pulled out!"

Perry thinks PSP is central to Sony's fortunes. "I LOVE the PSP, I
think it's crucial to the future of Sony to make the device that owns
the handheld markets. They have everything they need to make this
happen, it's really down to just making the right decisions, making
the right (modern) device, with slightly more power (PS2, not
PS1.something), (without a stupid TV tuner) and getting the price as
low as it can possibly go."

Article courtesy of PSM3 Magazine's official blog. PSM3 #98 is on sale
14 February 2008.

. http://www.gamesradar.com/psp/psp/news/touch-screen-umd-free-psp2-experts-claim/a-20080212142148531083/g-20060313155021903080/p-2

[ebay]

i think otherwise. since the ds has games that are mainly directed to
kids of 5 to 10 years of age, all the games including the classics may
get boring to them and nintendo may have to get some more games under
their belt if that happens. but you can only do so much with sonic and
mario.

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[ebay]

theirs a hack that u can download that i'm pretty sure gives you
32gigs of internal memory but i don't know how. The only downside is
that the umd drive is disabled, oh well.

> .http://www.gamesradar.com/psp/psp/news/touch-screen-umd-free-psp2-exp...

[bolddoughnut]

i think that is because the hack will erase the data on the UMD and put it on there and you loose the files on it aka the game