What is PSP?
PSP is PlayStation Portable by
Sony After roughly a decade at the top of the home
console industry, Sony decided to tackle the portable system market--one
heavily fortified by Nintendo's Game Boy Advance and DS. Sony sought
to take down Nintendo by adopting the tactic that made the PlayStation
2 such a runaway success: by offering sophisticated, graphically
intensive games and a heavy dose of multimedia functionality. The
device is called the PlayStation Portable (PSP), and in addition
to playing games of PS2 graphical quality, it can play music and
movies (downloaded or via disc) and surf the Web. It may not be
the best handheld media product on the market, and the games lack
the innovation of ones on Nintendo's portables, but as an all-in-one
device, the Sony PSP is king of the hill.
The good: The Sony PSP is a slick portable gaming system
highlighted by an impressive wide-screen display and PS2-like graphics.
It also boasts built-in Wi-Fi, a Web browser, and the ability to
play music and videos, as well as to store images.
The bad: The Sony PSP's multimedia functionality is
underwhelming, especially for video, requiring expensive memory
cards. The load times on the UMD games can be excessive.
The bottom line: The Sony PSP elevates portable gaming
to the next level, but its multimedia functionality falls short
of its full potential.
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