Yeah, I have been really impressed with the PSP, a lot more impressed than I thought I would be. Memory Sticks are still kind of expensive, but if you buy one of the bundles you get a 1 gig one for essentially $10. I paid $70 for an 8 gig, but you can find a 4 gig for around $30+. If you are really feeling saucy they just came out with 16 Gig ones, but those are over $200. Upside is that I can plug my memory stick into my Laptop, which is a little bit easier than syncing up the PSP with the PC, which is by no means hard once you have done it for the first time.
The graphics on the thing have really impressed me. The screen is absolutely beautiful, and playing it is just so, dare I say, fun. I have found several games that have just blown me away, and there is a large list of games, both western and eastern, which are top notch. The ones I own include Patapon, Crisis Core, Killzone: Liberation, Loco Roco, Jeanne D'ArC, Silent Hill: Origins, and Castlevania: Dracula X Chronicles. Jeanne D'Arc has been my favorite so far.
It is also a PHENOMENAL media device. It is great as an MP3 player, and in my opinion a better option than many IPods because it has flash memory and is a dedicated game player, so you get the best of both worlds since the HDD won't crash like a 30 Gig Ipod or Zune.
If you ever do buy a PS3, syncing up with the PS3 is one of its absolute coolest features. Some of the stuff you can do is just insane, like watch or listen to anything you have stored on your PS3 HDD from any Wifi access point. Damn!
At launch or about a year or two ago I would have given the console a 7/10 or an 8/10, but at this point in time given the game library, the decent cost of the console and memory sticks, as well as the features that have been added through firmware I can give it an unbiased 9/10.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
