Why was this thing so massively underused? Great hardware, great buttons, but such a shitty library of games

Why was this thing so massively underused? Great hardware, great buttons, but such a shitty library of games.

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>shitty library of games
I mean if you are limited to the games you can only buy and don't have CFW. PSP has many great games and an excellent retro emulation device.

PSP was released during an era where no one could agree on what memory card to use. SD was and is still the best, but Sony kept forcing us to use their official sticks no one liked. Obviously not the main flaw, but it just showed the strangle Sony had over their fledgling portable device.

And now you can pick up a micro sd to memory stick adapter and put hundreds of gigs of games on your psp.

I don't know about underused, if you mean by developers I agree but it was the best portable media player at the time, most people used it as a better mp3 player and to watch movies, also stream porn, it was fantastic.
It was a bit of a shame that the more popular games sucked ass and the good ones were too unknown at the time to reach you and the memory card situation, I couldn't get one til they dropped the prices later on

shitty battery, shitty charger, shitty in game memory, shitty OS, shitty analog stick but overall very good yeah i loved it.

I kinda wonder if technology was held back then on purpose because memory sticks were so popular. Phones still hadn't gotten to the point where you could add more memory (and oddly enough we're back to closed systems), and they were still not comparable to cameras, which was where most of the money was. As phones started rivalling and overtaking cameras, the need for memory sticks plummeted completely.

oh that reminds me, I should check up on my PSP Popcorn bag

piracy

Recommend me PSP games
so far ive got:
castlevania dracula x chronicles
monster hunter portable 3rd
rengoku 2
ridge racer 2
wipeout pulse

i think these are all awesome games and the psp is an awesome system. im not really into long jrpgs though.

It wasn't underused if it had 75+ million units sold.
Its greatest feature was also its greatest flaw - its UMD. They couldn't use high capacity cartridges because they would've been too expensive at the time, even if it would've allowed them to utterly destroy Nintendo at their own game. Yet, they were fucked because going all-digital so late also didn't sit well with people in 2009.
It was somewhat ergonomic, but still lacking in buttons. It had no L2/R2, L3/R3, and a really shitty analog nub. Worst of all, it had ONLY ONE in the age of 3D games.
Your opinion of the PSP having a shitty library is your opinion and indicative of your own tastes.

A lot of people say the expensive proprietary memory sticks are one of the biggest things that caused the vita to fail.

Do you guys think if the vita supported SD cards when it was released and Sony made it easy for developers to port PS4 games to it, the vita could have succeeded?

Armored Core, Toukiden, Soul Sacrifice delta, Monster Hunter Freedom unite/ Portable 3rd, Steins Gate, Neptunia, God Eater, Lord of Arcana

I think the Vita was cursed due to the PSP's lack of success. Vita couldn't shake off the opinion people had for its existence, which basically was another attempt at fighting piracy and homebrew. Vita was also competing against the 3DS this time, which was a much stronger system than the NDS.
Maybe if the PSP supported SD cards then we would have been fine. Many people would already have a memory stick to use for the PSP, instead of needing to shell out something like $50 just to save your games. This was before the official iso shop stuff caught on too
I think PSP had something really good going with its homebrew and mixed media device, but rather than build upon it Sony decided to stamp it out. I miss watching Naruto episodes on my PSP. It was peak soul

Patapon and Locoroco are a must

Piracy. Doesn't matter how great the system is if no one is gonna buy the games. Outside of Japan it was little more than a portable emulation machine/free budget games. Inside of Japan it was an anime VN spin-off/dating sim machine.

PSP library is huge, dumbass

It broke fairly easy, probably there are only few of those fully functional still around.

It was pretty great before the smartphones/android with retroarch, but mine the battery died and broke behind after all this years.
At least I could finish some games with my phone+bluetooth controller after.

whole kenka bancho series

Phanatasy Star Portable 2 Infinity

All the Metal Gear games (Portable Ops, Peace Walker, even ACID 1 and 2 are fun) Gladiator Begins, Soul Calibur Broken Destiny.