[Sepharite]

It's amazing how the perception of Sony's PlayStation Portable has changed within a matter of months. "The PSP will elevate portable entertainment out of the handheld gaming ghetto," said Kaz Hirai, president of Sony CEA, at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this year. "The PSP is full of innovation far superior to anything on the market today. Just as the PlayStation in 1995 revolutionized gaming and the way our industry does business, PSP will serve as the disrupter in the portable entertainment space." However, the way the industry does business also makes it easy for something like the PSP to cause outlandish expectations amongst consumers with statements like that. And the way that consumers ultimately do business requires that quality be partnered with a consistent flow of software for a new system. As electronics history has shown, having great hardware is only part of the equation.

The PSP has traveled the spectrum of being hailed as the greatest piece of.....

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Personally, I think it's just another period in the handheld world. It'll eventually get better. Anytime soon? Don't think so =P