pebe

none of the stores I've been to that carries them has one out for you to try, so I dont even know if I would like it. I had GBA and it was cool for a few weeks, but then the games just started sucking. PSP has NFS, Metal Gear, all the games that I like to play now. I may wait until I find one on Ebay for cheaper than $250.00. I hate buying new electronics when they first come out. I didnt even get PS2 until a year after it came out

Sarlacc

I returned mine after two hours....i realized it was more of a wow factor then anything. but my mom loves hers.

srika

there are more racing games available for PSP than I had thought... but damn, are they expensive.. I mean, $49.99 for NFS? For a portable system??? I just think they should be like, $25 or so. Or at the most $30. Not $50. I mean I seriously think they would sell more - like a lot more - if they reduced the price a bit...

http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/categorie...ub_dept=Racing

damn, ATV Offroad Fury: Blazin' Trails looks quite good... of course, I have ATV 1 & 2 for PS2 as well... I know it's not exactly comparable, but still... something is weird about that... I feel like I would be buying the game "again"...

juniorbean

iTrader: (5)

Well, if you think you'll play it... go for it.

I travel quite a bit and was thinking about selling my unopened 20gb iPod and getting one. Then I decided against that.... but now that I know the PSP will work as a wireless controller on the PS3.... I'm leaning back toward selling the iPod for one.....

pebe

Cool. I guess Ebay would be the cheapest internet site to get one? I dont think any stores are any cheaper than $250 yet right? The ebgames deal was pretty good, PSP and 3 games for $379.

Whiskers

Need to play mine more. Damn Azine

srika

I'm still eagerly awaiting the answer to this question... from farberstyle... whatever he's playing, I want.

Moog-Type-S

Played a friends PSP a couple of weeks ago...it was impressive....but in the end I decided I wouldn't play it all that much. I like my big screen too much for games vs the PSP small screen.

farberstyle

Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee

I played 2 or 3 other iterations and am hooked on it. Probably logged 50+ hours in the last 2 weeks.

Mizouse

i have one.. i rarely touch the thing... im contemplating on selling mine..

srika

ahh.. I could see how that might be fun.. hmm.

all I know is driving games aren't particularly fun to play on the PSP due to the nature of its controls... I have Twisted Metal and Wipeout and neither is terribly fun to play... Wipeout has decent control but Twisted Metal... its like too much is going on and the cars turn too fast and I almost get dizzy playing it.

farberstyle

Srika,

Do you like puzzle games?

If you do try out Lumines. Crazy addictive and the music is amazing. Wonderful beats that are manipulated by the gameplay. It's the only PSP game that has gotten consisent 9+ reviews.

srika

yeah.. I have to get that. I think I might like those kinds of games better for PSP... I am really interested in that golf now too.

caball88

think the hype is beginning to fade. its a really cool looking portable but just not worth the 250. just because the graphics is nicer doesn't mean i will be carrying it around more than a gba. i hardly use the gba so the psp would seldomly be used as well. some of my friends got it when it first came out and they use to brin it out everywhere with them. now none of them play with it, just sits at home and they play once in a while.

kensteele

Really cool for traveling and movies. That's about it.

TL CHROMETIDE

I like mines, i put in a movie or 2, music, and pictures of my TL, but i always have my Ape Escape!

I'm waiting for midnight club 3, which comes out in july.....and of course Gran Turismo

srika

pretty sure I'd get midnight club 3..... that's the kind of game I wouldn't find myself playing at home on PS2, but at work,

Funny but tonight I actually lent out my PSP to a friend of mine, who's going to San Fran for a week to visit her parents. She'd been in the hospital for the last 3 days with pneumonia after a stress-related asthma attack - and she'd been wanting to get a PSP for some weeks now... so, seeing how I haven't touched mine in about 3 weeks, I thought it was a fitting thing to do. She was flippin' out when she saw how good Spiderman 2 looked on it.

That's probably more info than anyone wanted to know, but hey, :truePSPstory:

is300eater

...yeah, I haven't really have time to play it... I thought I'd be playing it while doing cardio on the eliptical.... but... it's too hard to concentrate, and I keep thinking I'm going to drop it....

...but the weird thing is... I still stop by certain stores to see what games are out... yet, I don't hardly touch the thing...

Sarlacc

Sounds like the coolness factor wore for most of you...took me two hours

only farber plays his a lot....but he is a videogame whore so he doesnt count

pebe

Well, let me know if any of you will be selling yours so I can get the AZ discount

srika

negative.. it's still cool. I think I will be using mine more after I get more memory stick storage and after more (better) things come out for it.

Yumcha

I still enjoy mine.

The problem right now is that many of the games I would buy for a portable gaming machine like side-shooters (i.e. Gradius, R-Type, Contra types) and puzzlers are not out...Although, I'm hearing from the grapevines that Hot Shots Golf is worth the purchase...I'd still recommend the PSP. As well, for the long plane rides, the PSP and a nice movie is just so worth it.

srika

maybe I just need to take longer trips..... hmm. get some vacationing going.

pebe

Ok, so I bit the bullet and got one last nite. I picked up NFS and the above mentioned Hot Shots golf, which is absolutely awesome. I was up until midnite playing it. Its always been one of my favorites since PS1 and it plays exactly the same. NFS is cool, a little hard to control at first, but not bad. I wanted to get Metal Gear, but am iffy about its card style play. Other than that, Im pretty happy with it, It will be cool to play on the balcony at nite while Im bbq'in. I wish I couldve waited until it got cheaper, but I was in Gamestop and said what the hell. Next thing on the list is a bigger memory stick.

Whiskers

Mine is sort of collecting dust.

ViperrepiV

i'll buy yours off of you.....at a discount of course

hot shots golf...is amazing. as are puzzle games

pebe

The only thing that sucks, and if someone knows different let me know, is that I started a game in Hot Shots, saved it and whatever, then my wife started to play, but she couldnt make her own save, it would overwrite mine. Is there a way to have 2 games on there? I didnt see anywhere else to save a new game. This sucks because if she wants to play, either she has to use my save, or take the memory card out and start from the beginning and not save at all.

bigman

i love my psp. I have multiple cards with aquateen hungerforce episodes, music, movies and i also have a bunch of games. Ive used it while my girl does laundry and i wait, or at the doctors and stuff like that. My girl loves it, i'm an impatient prick and my psp keeps me busy. I love the movies on the go, thats what i really love to do.

srika

glad to hear someone's having fun with it.

pebe

I take it to work and play on my lunch and after work while I'm waiting at the train station to pick up my wife. I just won Metal Gear on ebay for 17 bucks also, sounds like a cool game.

ViperrepiV

i want one, but in two weeks i'm starting a job that'll consume 80 hours a week. I have a feeling that i'll want to use the rest of my time to sleep

pebe

I would think so. 80 hrs a week would kill me.

TL CHROMETIDE

any good games comming out soon? i'm getting bored with nba street and ape escape.

Yumcha

www.ign.com

CLSter

Here's some good news (I think):

http://gamesradar.msn.co.uk/news/def...sectionid=1591

kensteele

Along with 1gb, 512mb, and 256mb cards. Gotta find some time to use this stuff.

TL CHROMETIDE

wow really? how much was that 1gb? and where did you get it?

charlesgage

Will these play an entire movie on battery? Can you rip a movie in there somehow???

CLSter

My thread/link has some info on that but you can make a movie fit onto a GB memory stick pretty easily from what I've read. If my PDA can do it (Aximsite.com) I am sure this thing can.

kensteele

You might be able to squeeze a [short] movie onto the 256mb card...for sure on the 512mb.

https://acurazine.com/forums/console-computer-gaming-13/large-capacity-memory-stick-duo-pro-card-303263/