I love Sony slightly more than Nintendo, but lets be real, Nintendo was just too awesome this E3.

The conferences are over, E3 isn't over. Today is the final day.

and do what..loose more money?

look I like the PSP just as much as some gamer's, but the blunt truth of the matter no matter what Sony does wiith the PSP no one is going to be happy at this point in my opinion..

they removed the UMD...when many gamer's cry for them to get rid of it..than when they did many of those same gamer's than said you need two analog stick's..what next?

the price was too high

the DS is killing it in the market

now the 3DS is going to dreamcast the PSP

between the media and the forum's many gamer's have pretty much left the PSP out in the cold.

Sony is doing the smart thing Nintendo is pretty well entrenched in the "dedicated handheld gaming device"

Sony is most likely looking at the Smartphone market because there can be many other Smartphone's and at least you can gain a good share of the market without being completely lambasted in the media an forum's.

Sony know's they can keep support for the PSP's they have now but I think they know it's time to move the PSP in another direction.

I do not blame them.

a) less chance for pirate of PSP software

b) most people only want to carry one handheld at a time

c) even though there is more smartphone's they can seperate the PSP/phone from the rest by software.

Can't speak for Matrix, but in my case, it was just their way of talking as if they speak for the public (especially like how "The PSP is the handheld choice for gaming"). I know it's PR, but even PR has its limits, and the PSP's sales pale in comparison to the DS. They can promote it without that stuff.

It's not really a Sony issue, I would do the same if it were Nintendo or Microsoft.

Nintendo > Sony > Microsoft

though all three were disappointing this year...

In that train of thought, I understand why some consider the Sony conference as being a good one. But this is E3. Their conference would be the best at an event like GDC, but E3 is about the games primordially. 

Just like everyone else, Nintendo had the best conference for sure followed Sony with Microsoft's being a waste of time for anyone who didn't physically attend.

Without doubt new hardware is always a big attraction... even PSP Go won Sony "some" points last year.

how come anyone actually votes for sony is beyond me. 

we had almost 40 minutes of sausage fest made by Sony execs about how their 3D is awesome, how ps3 is the only game console that utilises 3D, how ps3 was built from the ground for 3d when we just saw 3DS and know how old a crappy technology is used for ps3s "3D" and that's whole 3d on ps3 is just a firmware update and has nothing to do with hardware. and also we had some extremely boring KZ3 presentation(i would say that it was almost as boring as first part of Black Ops presentation when they were playing in tunnels). it was more like an embarassment that entertainment.

then we had Move part which for me was flat out laughable compared to what MS showed. yeah MS games were mostly for casuals, but they already looked like final products and were very interesting. what sony showed was basically deja vu from E3 2009 and anything that would be barelly interesting was already pushed to 2011. and no, i don't give a damn that i will be able to play 1-2 year old ps3 games with Move controler. Tiger Woods demo was just sad. and it was only a Move patch for the game so we won't get what was a standard in Tiger Woods 10 on the wii. pricing of Move is also ridiculous. at least pricing of games is good if this means that all games will be priced like that. and we had another sausage fest about Move.

psp and ps2 part. calling psp the gamers choice and then not even one game announcement? we had Patapon 3 and 3rd Birthday which was in the works for a couple years now - wow what a great choice for gamers.ps2 is still selling strong? wow great how many games were released on ps2 for the past 2 years?

LBP2 presentation which was actually interesting.

Playstation Plus which is an epic fail considering the pricing and the fact that to keep that "free" content you have to pay constantly.

exclusive content was interesting only for Dead Space 2.

Portal 2 announcement which we already knew.

Gran Turismo 5 release date which was supposedly "coming soon" since E3 2008.

Twisted Metal which was cool until they showed the gameplay which was meh at best.

so we had more than 2 hour long conference and more than half of that time was spend on execs sausage fest. this was one of the worst conferences i've ever saw almost on par with Ubisofts E3 2009 or even worse if you think about whole 3d part.

I just think the PSP part took up too much time for what could've been used for PS3 games, honestly. Not saying the PSP shouldn't get any attention at all, but I think that either IF they can afford it, bring a new innovation to the handheld market, or just drop it all together.

I like the PSP as well, don't get me wrong, but I think it's time to move on. PSP is losing third party support due to its insane piracy levels. It's only surviving in Japan right now.