Stillwell said: It's like I predicted a year ago. By late 2009, we won't see but a few sporadic 3rd party games for the PSP. By 2010 they will need to bring out a new PSP or give up on handhelds.

 

lol... sporadic 3rd party games for the PSP by the end of 09... If you want we can bet that the PSP will have at least 30 3rd party games released worldwide ( and I dont look at different region releases as different games, dont worry) q4 09...

Yes, let's bet the farm!!

Time will tell.

The PSP's upcoming games list is pretty worrisome. All they really have to brag about is the upcoming Square-Enix support, and no, that's not as good a thing as it always sounds. A cell-phone port of a puzzle KH's game. The out of the blue third instalment of a franchise (Parasite Eve) that should have been left for dead. KH and FF13 spin-offs... You need look no further than the DS's upcoming library to see where all the third party support is going.

The PSP legacy will survive, but as a multifunctional communications device like the iphone not as a handheld video game console. It's Sony's only hope for the product. UMD is a failure. Their bid for handheld console gaming is a failure. The only thing that isn't a failure is the PSP itself, which is a dream for tech heads and people who want a versitile multifunctional media device.

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Onimusha12 said: The PSP's upcoming games list is pretty worrisome. All they really have to brag about is the upcoming Square-Enix support, and no, that's not as good a thing as it always sounds. A cell-phone port of a puzzle KH's game. The out of the blue third instalment of a franchise (Parasite Eve) that should have been left for dead. KH and FF13 spin-offs... You need look no further than the DS's upcoming library to see where all the third party support is going. The PSP legacy will survive, but as a multifunctional communications device like the iphone not as a handheld video game console. It's Sony's only hope for the product. UMD is a failure. Their bid for handheld console gaming is a failure. The only thing that isn't a failure is the PSP itself, which is a dream for tech heads and people who want a versitile multifunctional media device.

 

Hmmm.... well its still the best selling non-nintendo handheld ever, and IMO it managed to capture a fair bit of the Gameboy crowd. And seeing the game it has, IMO it was one great venture into the handheld market... does the fact that its a multi-functional PMP had anithing to do with the great sales it had this far ( lets be honest reaching 40 million in 4 years is pretty damn impressive for a handheld that had as a arival the fastest selling gaming device ever, and whom was much more expensive especially during the first 2 years) ? Yes it did, but IMO that was pretty much a well working backup plan, and untill I will have/ year at least half dozen great games, and at least 20 qulity ones... well its fine for me ;)

Uh oh... I broke the thread XD

lol... how the hell did you managed to do this? :P

Nah they still have kh:bbs :D

RolStoppable said: Well, the release list for the rest of the year is thin. The PSP is in its fourth year and experiencing what usually happens to losing systems at this point: decreasing 3rd party support. And yes, that's usually the beginning of the end for a system.

The PS3 may experience the same, though. With my laptop woes (two updates on Windows Update for Vista Ultimate conflicted and erased my entire hard drive; luckily I had everything backed up on my external) and being at Best Buy, they have a shit-load of PS3s on the higher shelves (when I mean 'higher,' I mean literally 13 feet or so for storage on the islands for electronics), quite a lot of X360 and hardly any Wii. They did get a shipment of Wii in the second day I was there (kept going back to Best Buy to check out my laptop's maintenance), but they disappeared on the last day I was there and got my laptop back. The same amount of PS3s were there on the high shelves, and they had a cage full of the 80 GB models in the gaming section. I asked one guy why so many PS3s and he replied that consumers keep coming in to see if a PS3 model comes in to support PS2 games, but they get cleaned out of PS2 systems as soon as they get them (which is a very small shipment).Honestly, no one (not to brag) I know owns a PS3, but some do own a PSP to play pirated games (mainly N64 ROMs). Best Buy did have a lot of PSPs in stock too.

I've seen more feasible arguments made for the future of the Gamecube at its darkest hour than I have for the PSP here. Face it, if Sony wants to save the PSP lineage they're going to have to switch gears to a different market altogether, like I've said before, a communication's device like iphone that will specialize in cell phone games with PSP graphics.