Ranger X said:
The PSP is indeed having some top notch holiday lineup. The DS is also having such a lineup too so i guess pretty much nothing will change.
I fear for the PSP, i wonder what will happen to it of it doesn't really take off this year.
I doubt it will. They can bring handheld gaming out of the ghetto, but that doesn't mean everyone will follow.
No matter how long the amount of PSP exclusives/remakes have toppled the number of direct ports, they will still claim it's nothing but ports and sports 'til the end, as well as talk about how they aren't spending $50 on a handheld game when the norm has long since changed to $40 and most PSP games can be obtained for $15-$25.
Great PSP games will continue getting low scores for petty reasons(most of which lie in "It doesn't innovate the genre") which will screw the secondhand PSP game advertising.
They'll keep on saying that the PSP can't handle shooters even with Syphon Filter and MOH out and keep trying to insist that it's more of a multimedia device than it is a game system, and regardless of how many games it racks up that are in the high 70s-80 percentile people will still insist that it has no good games and introduces nothing new to the table.
And as long as Sony keeps the prices so high, no one is gonna attempt to stray away from the above ignorance... especially given that PSP advertising is nothing short of a total atrocity(if I hadn't been doing my research, and were relying only on commercials like the average consumer, I'd know of only about 8 psp games).
The fanboyism and bias are simply too large to stop now, so the PSP seems like it's pretty much just gonna linger to it's death.
It's a shame... especially considering that afterwards, it'll be back to playing GBA games on the DS and wading through waves of mini game compilations to get to an exceptional Castlevania or Final Fantasy title.
O was launching in NA this early. Awesome.
