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This is a discussion on Is the PSP dying? within the PSP Speculation forums, part of the PSP Development, Hacks, and Homebrew category; I havent touched my PSP in over 2 years, lol. If Sony does keep pushing these stupid hardware updates they ...
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I havent touched my PSP in over 2 years, lol. If Sony does keep pushing these stupid hardware updates they need to up the RAM to at least 128Mb and up the CPU. The WiFi needs some major updates too. But IMO they just need to stop releasing these dumb HW updates, and start work on a completely new system.
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its the same everywhere. the ds has alot of ingenuity, while the psp is just a bundle of everything weve seen before. both have theyre advantages. its basically like the ps3 and the wii. the wii's gonna sell more because its something new. the ps3 is more for hardcore gamers who want extremely fun games
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As AllyOmega said, the Wii is as to the DS as the PS3 is to the PSP.
The PSP and PS3 have more multimedia functions, are more powerful and cost more. The Wii and the DS are more family oriantated, have games that are actually fun to play, cost less and are less powerful. (I am not a Nintendo fanboy and own neither consoles. I only own a PSP.) If the PSP was more innovative and had something new (I'm looking at the microphone) it would be more popular. |
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well to stick to the topic, i'd say no the psp is not dying as from personal experience me and my friens went and bought new psp just the other month, also i do believe that if it were dying they'd stop production as they wouldnt want to produce them if no one was buying
thats if your talking from the sales perspective, but from the homebrew perspective its not dying either, IMO the psp has the best homebrew across all platforms, and there just gettin better also the psp community is one of the largest not just at qj but other psp related sites |
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The PSP isn't dying. It's just entered a sort of recession, kind of like the economy. Developers, both official and homebrew, have lost interest right now in it but Sony is working to reverse that (for official that is)
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Most of the decent games right now are coming out of Japan. Seems piracy has scared off the Western Devs, but to be honest I import half the games I play anyway. If the 3000 gets hacked it'll be all over, so I'm pretty torn about how successful I want DAX to be.
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I'd say it is dying But this 'Credit Crunch' isn't helping. I agree with Acteon, the 3000 might be a last attempt at resurrecting games on psp. I think companies are worried about profit. They think that if they release a game a couple of thousand people will buy it but More people will just download an iso. Though most people just rent anyway & then rip the iso.
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Of course the PSP is Dying and anyone who denies it is ignoring the obvious. Sales are down, the DS is destroying them in every market and the quality PSP releases are very few and far between. Indeed, most recent PSP games are conversions from other formats done very sloppily and without much attention to quality. The Developers won't go out of their way for such an easily hackable system anymore and the homebrew scene by and large has lost interest and moved on. The PSP 3000 is the last desparate attempt by Sony to lure devs to support their platform, but it may very well bury the system completely in the end - especially if the platform is shown to be hackable at an early stage. The PSP is just the Dreamcast v2.0 folks. |
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I agree with warsaw there...
The PSP has become a sort of 'dry' platform Nothing good has been coming out officially The only thing recently i found any good was Crisis Core The DS has defeated the PSP totally... Soon i can see the PSP just becoming a bad mistake in Sony's past! |
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got bored when i finished it though lol funny thing was though the very last battle i was battling for half an hour until i realised i had to lose so i had to turn off infinite health lol
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A bad mistake in sony's past are you fing kidding me. look at how long psp has been out and how much longer it will be supported. Many have tried and all have failed but sony has held its own agianst nintendo.
So you nds is crushing psp in the school yard and playground. But look any were that real men gather like me in the U.S. ARMY or were i go to college ITT and youll see that most of us have psp. To me and most every one my age 25+ the nds is just a toy. Being cought with one would be no diffrent than being caught with a doll or yoyo. Then the factor comes in who mostly buys portable gameing devices, yes adults do but for there kids. Nintendo has allways been seen as a childs gameing device that and the fact thats its cheaper means parrents buy it for there kids. Sony is the only one to break that mold. And believe it or not psp isnt doing as bad as you claim dang the thing has had 3 revisions now. But yeah it was [sarcasm] a mistake [/sarcasm] |
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I personally love my PSP too, but I don't live in a state of denial about how the system is going commercially. Be realistic about it for a moment and put your personal bias to one side and it's pretty clear the PSP is on thin ground right now. I'm not saying that Sony is in any danger of going under or anything like that. They're a huge, multinational corporation with billions of dollars to back them. I'm saying that all things considered, and concurrent with views in the market and media, the PSP really has fallen by the wayside in recent times and is in real danger of becoming relegated to a niche gaming handheld with little mainstream support. Between the lack of really good quality homebrew for the system (in recent times) and over 80% of all commercial games for the platform being utter rubbish, it's not hard to see why a lot of people have their doubts. This year especially, the quality games that have been released on the platform have been very few and far between. A few diamonds in the rough... and a WHOLE lot of worthless **** to drown it. That's sums up the PSP for me in the last 18 months at least. Last edited by warsaw; 10-19-2008 at 05:02 PM.. |
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Last edited by limited4; 10-19-2008 at 11:01 PM.. Reason: Automerged Doublepost |
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To attempt a little positivity, I think the hardware has proven to sell very well. It's certainly no failure from Sony's point of view, but the devs in the West have run like hell from the platform. If Sony is to be believed, they've lured a good number back, so I do believe we'll see a resurgence in the next 12 months, but it could be very short lived if the platform is broken into again.
What Sony needs is an unhackable system (from a software standpoint at least) with some killer, profitable titles to make the system a viable business proposition for development houses. From a commercial viewpoint, the PSP just can't compete with the DS for sales potential, even with the massive number of units now in players' hands. If Sony can't turn it around, then yes, the system is dead. But I wouldn't write it off yet. |
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If you ask me, the PSP is very successful. Nintendo has held the handheld market for 20 years so of course they will have the greater market share. In fact, the PSP is the only system to ever fiercely compete with Nintendo's handheld.
Recently the PSP has been neglected due to Sony's concentration to get the PS3 off the ground (which it mostly has). But now with the additon of the PSN store for the PSP and the PSP-3000, it looks like Sony is not ready to ditch the PSP yet.
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why is it that homebrew on the psp has messed up psp sales yet nothing happened to the DS after the M3 came out
games are still being produced and people are still buying yes i am a psp fanboy, i want NDSlite to fail lol |
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i think the problem with the psp is that its supposed to be an all in one multimedia device but it doesn't do any of those things well (with the exception of gaming).
The ability to display photos is so pointless its not even funny. Why on Earth would i put photos on my PSP? So i can view them on the go? Never in my life have i thought to myself, 'you know what, I really like this picture, if only there was someway to view it when im not on my PC?' And whats worse is that all it does is display the photos. I could see it being worth while with some sort of built in photo editor but right now its just pointless. Even a screenshot function would be easy to implement and make it so there were some actual photos to view. On to music. Does it make sense that I should pay $200 for my psp plus another $50 for a 4GB memory stick when I can get an 8GB ipod for $150. Sony is stupid not to add a built in hdd or lower the price of their memory sticks. Then you've got the fact that there is no way to sort or view your songs in any sort of order. its just a waste. Almost as big of a waste as the visualizers. could sony not take the extra 10 minutes and add some decent visualizers other than that brown one that doesnt do anything at all. and don't even get me started on the fact that you can't do anything else in the xmb when listening to music other than listen to music. And would in game music be so hard to implement. There is a prx to do it so why can't sony. I've got no complaints about the video feature. The psp has a bigger screen than my ipod so I am perfectly fine watching videos on it. So onto the internet browser. I could go on for the next hour about how terrible the internet browser is bit since i don't really feel like rambling on Ill just say either improve it or get rid of it (its not much use at the moment anyway). Game sharing - what the hell is that????? RSS - since the browser sucks is it too much to ask to get text feeds of my favorite sites internet radio - ... so basically sony is so focused on making a multimedia device that they try to cover everything and end up covering nothing. they need to take a little more time on focusing on actual features and not little filler improvements that end up adding nothing at all (is the Search icon really necessary). im done now... |
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Thing about NDS piracy is the majority of those that own a NDS are casual gamers and they don't exactly know that they could pirate - the NDS community of gamers are basically ignorant - they don't know their device can be hacked. |
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Although I would normally agree with that, I saw a news story on the frontpage some time ago that said otherwise. It basically said that a really high amount of DS owners own a flashcart.
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Maybe more recently since the news/media outside of the internet picked up on the developments but I still believe it is below the level of PSP piracy. Piracy for the NDS requires you to buy a flashcart online and through a vendor that has them - recently it was difficult to find the R4 online. PSP Piracy only required you to exploit your PSP (more recent exploits require the purchasing of a game/battery). In the past it was definitely true that PSP piracy was on a larger scale, coming to the current day it is much harder to judge. I would still stick by saying PSP Piracy is larger. NDS games are much cheaper and there's less incentive to actually pirate.
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Well the PSP is harder to sustain than the NDS. While Nintendo can basically sit on the DS doing nothing, simply capitalizing on its previous successes, Sony must come up with new innovations to sell the PSP. It is also attempting to break into a market that is basically monopolized by Nintendo.
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Only recently I used the photo viewing function to follow along a transcript (which was achieved by a homebrew app that converts websites into dozens of 480x272 .jpgs) as I listened to the Ricky Gervais show simultaneously on the music player; they can talk a bit fast so it's good to be able to read along too. |
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