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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 3703791" data-attributes="member: 151">Three of my players own PSPs.  They all desperately wanted games to play on it, after the first blush of Wipeout faded.  They have yet to find a game that justifies the device.  One of them uses it as his MP3 player and purchased a DS for games.  Another one put it on a shelf and purchased a DS and plays it constantly.  One still holds out hope, but is disappointed with each new game.  Out of six players, five of them have DSes.The PSP has good games.  However, there are some driving flaws with most of the PSP's library:1) Many games are ports or rehashes of existing games.  This means that many of the games that ARE good are games that people have already played on the PS1/PS2.  Few people are going to pay for a slight updating of Valkyrie Profile Lenneth or Riveira: The Promised Land if they played it all the way through on the PS1, especially if the new version doesn't really add anything to the formula.2) Many games are not customized to work as a portable game.  If I have to play 10 minutes to reach a save point in a portable game, you've failed.  Most of the DS's catalog are games that can be played in quick, short bursts.  The FFIII remake, for example, has a Quicksave option that was never in the original.3) The PSP's engineering is confused.  The 'nub' is a poor controller, in the opinions of those I know.  The lack of a second one is also a problem.  The PSPs battery life could be better.  It's size and fragility are a factor.4) Sony doesn't support the PSP well.  In the runup to the launch of the PS3, the PSP was left to languish in the cold.  It needed God of War PSP or Monster Hunter 2 a year earlier and lot more hyped.  It needs more Loco Rocos, and fewer Alien Syndromes.Simply put, most of the catalog on the PSP, according to my friends, feels like an afterthought.  Games are brought out more as an obligation or a low-effort port than as a real title that puts other versions to shame.  There's no question to my mind that a game properly adapted to the PSP can outshine a DS game in many ways...but the market has spoken and devs just aren't extending the effort.   The PSP is the gamecube of this generation.</blockquote>

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