this gen, the psp was the one that was forgotten, sony needs to remodel it to something new before it falls to the dogs.

*pauses mgs4*
*reads &laughs*
*unpauses mgs4*

@Kyros: iPhone does compete with PSP outside games (which never was the strogest feature in PSP) to a large extent, but i do agree that iPhone isn't the reason if Sony decides to write PSP off.

Yeah the got it wrong Wii definitly isn't cheap considering hardware inside :D

this article is dumb

why complain of no touch screen when the item was launched when the competition introduced touch screen to VG fame.... It just doesn't work that way...
That and 40M sales is more than honorable, it's about the same number I predict for the PS3 (there for an other parallel) and it's not bad, it's good (but not great).

The PSP was a success and will remain there for a little bit... especially if sony does not plan on making a successor.

No, the iPod Touch/iPhone are not better because of flash memory, fewer buttons, and touch screens alone, they are better because they can do everything the PSP can do and more, are comparable in power, and have flash memory, fewer buttons, and touch screens too.

According to Sega, the iPhone is as powerful as the Dreamcast, which at least puts it in the class of the PS2/PSP, something which the DS cannot boast.

When you factor in that the most expensive, professional studio released iPhone games are only $9.99 (and the majority are much cheaper than that), plus (with the iPhone) its music playing, movie watching, Internet browsing, text messaging, cellular call making, and GPS capabilities, well ... what reason is there to own anything else?

I have a DS. Loved it too, but frankly, I haven't touched it once since the day I upgraded to the iPhone. The iPhone's only drawback is that its lack of buttons and capacitive touch screen (which doesn't work with a precision pointer like a stylus) doesn't translate well to all game genres.

Sorry, but the Yahoo! article has it right. Sony kneecapped the PSP just like they did the PS3. It was a trojan horse to prop up UMDs, which was one of Sony's biggest blunders in a long string of failures trying to rule media formats, given they'd already had concrete evidence that the masses didn't want micro optical storage when the market rejected Mini-Discs in favor of solid state MP3 players.

You realize that in less than 18 months the combined sales of the iPhone and iPod touch are pushing 20M units? Apple will pass Sony's PSP install base this coming year.

That is an ass kicking of epic proportions.

@Dryden: My mobile phone can do all that too, except that it doesn't have a touch screen and has less processing power than iPhone. So, i'm pretty sure there's a reason to own something else, and the reason is called battery life.

Awwwww, Victim Complex time, everyone hates Sony!

Sony has already announced there won't be a PSP2 showing their own lack of faith in the handheld's future. UMD is a dead format that even Sony admonishes as a poor idea. The PSP's software sales are virtually non-existant outside of Japan. The Console is crippled by piracy and is losing more ground than ever to the DS.

It's not hard to see where they're coming from in making this assessment. Forgive them for jumping the gun on having a headstone already to go, but they're not saying anything that the rest of the industry isn't already thinking. And as PSP, PS2 and PS3 displays in stores are increasingly condensed into eachother to make more room for Wii, DS & 360 products, its clear the consumer market is at least to some degree reflective of this sentiment.