![]() ![]() ![]() Now even when I go around praising some weird Japanese RPG on an equally weird format from decades ago I don’t seriously expect anyone to go following me down the rabbit hole – games are supposed to be fun and relaxing, not a wallet-emptying language lesson, right? The PSP isn’t like that. ![]() It matters because I really don’t like to see people missing out on good games. Sony’s handheld is much more than an easily hackable emulation machine, or a place for on-the-go Monster Hunter, or a convenient way to keep old Playstation games in your pocket (although it is very good at all of those things and you should definitely keep old Playstation games in your pocket at all times) it’s a good format in its own right. If you’d like some broad sense of scale – a quick search suggests the PSP comfortably sold more than the Dreamcast, original Xbox, Wii U, Sega Saturn, and PC Engine combined. Or to put it another way – there are almost as many PSPs in the world as there are Xbox 360s. Gaming’s handheld graveyard may be filled with the carcasses of Nintendo’s rivals but so very few of them deserve to be there based on the quality of their game selection, the PSP perhaps least of all – this is a format that sold over 80 million units in its lifetime, making it the sort of “fail” that should be read as nothing more than “It didn’t succeed as strongly as its main rival did”. So it might be surprising to learn that PSP wasn’t a failure. Its’s 2019 and the PSP’s long dead and buried – if it ever truly lived – just another pretender crushed by Nintendo’s unbroken thirty-year grip on handheld gaming. Looking for something in particular? Search for: Click here to be taken to a random article! Archives Archives ![]()
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