PSP To Have Ten Year Life-Cycle

This picture is a riot – I love it. The images chosen to accompany every story covered has to be unique. Pictures are a dime a dozen, especially when they are stock shots that people have seen time and time again. A special image grabs the attention of a reader and subconsciously induces interest in the story. It sets the mood of the text and the tone of the blog. The PSP is a sexy device and has a beautiful interface with some great software titles. Is it lickable? Hardly.

The life of the PSP has been rather fickle. Hot as hell in Japan, but struggling in America. It probably would have been a bigger success if it didn’t use UMD media and had a flash based storage system instead. Games could’ve been downloaded off a secure Sony e-commerce site with the option to have the game sent to you on a DVD if online content was impossible to facilitate. However, that method sounds pretty difficult. But is it that crazy to think of in comparison to the struggling UMD format? UMD movies and music are barely staying alive. How long will the PSP last before Sony releases a new portable gaming system that is completely different? A bit longer than some would think.

According to SCEE’s Zeno Colaco, “We definitely have the ambition for it to feature very strongly in the future, both on its own and also complimentary to Playstation Network environment and the PS3. But we’ll have to wait a while before we can fully reveal the direction we’re going in. Ten years is certainly the long-term plan though.”

I’ve owned a PSP. It’s a killer portable gaming system and the firmware updates make it seem full of unlimited potential. Games are fun, attractive, addictive, and reasonably priced. The homebrew scene is exciting and mostly vibrant. Integration with the PS3 will slowly become better and better. However, there is just something about the PSP that doesn’t keep people playing. I never play mine anymore; in fact, a friend has been borrowing it for more than half a year and I don’t really miss it. Maybe I’m just crazy and need to confront that guy and liberate my PSP.

He probably pawned it.