PSP Identity Crisis

[Mr. Analog]

I'm sure you've seen this on Slashdot or Digg already but apparently Sony marketing is having some fun trying to figure out who the PSP is really for as senior marketing manager for the PSP John Koller states ?The PSP consumer has turned out to be a different consumer in many ways than what we have targeted,?.

http://blogs.rockymountainnews.com/denver/freePlay/2006/08/sony_fights_to_define_the_psp.html#more

I mean, I could have told you that their video format would flop (Sony and video formats have kind of a bad history), but it seems to me the real problem is that Sony just hasn't made enough games that take advantage of being portable the way Nintendo did.

Anybody out there own a PSP or other portable console?

[Lazybones]

Arn't a large crosssection of PSP games just PS1 games ported to the PSP disk format? No one likes paying for what they already have a copy of twice.. Same goes for the video formate.. If the PSP had video out, maybe it would have done better as a portible video player.

[Darren Dirt]

I mean, I could have told you that their video format would flop (Sony and video formats have kind of a bad history), but it seems to me the real problem is that Sony just hasn't made enough games that take advantage of being portable the way Nintendo did.

What, are you saying you've got a problem with spending $30.00 on a proprietary version of a movie that you can only play in the PSP, when you can get the same movie at HMV for $9.99?