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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 2018506" data-attributes="member: 151">I will get one, eventually....but not when it first comes out.  MY DS is a cherished friend, at this point, and serves me well.Several problems currently hamper the PSP:<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Battery Life: Unlike the GBA, SP and DS, the battery life of the PSP is terrible when using the wireless, and merely bad when not using it.  I ride the train daily for almost two hours, and I use the DS most of that time.  I regularly get 12-15 hours of play time on the unit before it needs recharging.  The PSP, according to recent tests, only gets about 3-4 hours....half-that if you use the wireless.  I have an Atari Lynx in my closet....anyone remember what happened there? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />   </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Design Confusion: Sony appears to thing they have an iPod killer in their hands.  They don't.  A host of problems plague this concept.  32MB of stick memory?  Even my Rio Cali flash player has 256 to start with...and it only cost me $50 to add another 512MB to it.  I can play music and access it with one hand...in my pocket.  This is true of an iPod, as well, but not the PSP, which requires two-handed operation to access the music.  Playlists?  Very primitive support, from what I've seen.  Form factor?  Much bigger than most PDAs and conventional players.  Other portable media units offer 20 Gb of internal storage, and much better support for other audio and video formats.   </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Various reports of hardware issues: units with problematic Square buttons, units that eject discs randomly, and so on.  This is just first generational hardware problems, but Sony seems to be convinced they don't have to address them.   </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Sony's Attitudes:  A major problem with the device isn't with the device at all, but Sony's support for it.  Anyone here remember when Sony was synonomous with portable music?  But Sony refused to endorse or support the MP3 or WMA formats when everyone else was, hoping they could muscle everyone into the ATRAC format.  Why?  Because Sony's Music and Movie divisions demanded it.  The public moved on and Apple and others knocked Sony off of the charts.  Anyone seen the Networked Walkman?  Not exactly flying off of the shelves, are they?   Kaz's comments in the last few weeks have certainly not won him many friends (such as blaming developers for the PSP's battery life problems). </li> </ol>I want the PSP to succeed, and I think it eventually will.  But I don't think it's a fait accompli that it will dominate the market.  Sony needs to stop trying to make the PSP a media convergence device that plays games, and instead make it a game-playing device that also handles media formats.  I think both devices have had weak launch titles, frankly, and don't expect really good software to appear until the summer.  I mean, most of the PSP's launch titles are sports games, and I guarantee most of them have been rushed to market, not unlike some of the DS's games.  Both should have some excellent exclusives that will reward the owner of any particular system.  Gamers only benefit with more systems available for enjoyment.</blockquote>

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