It was a gimmicky touch pad, the no drive is a negative, without that there was 0 backwards compatibility with the PSPs large library. Which I peg as the main reason it floundered so hard
OLED, 3G and better wifi could have easily been added to a 4th gen PSP iteration
They could play PSP games big issue was buying them again and not being able to download them on the unaffordable memory.
If it had games constantly coming out like the switch did when it first launched it would have been very similar. And if it had storage that was affordable doubly so.
Instead it had the pricing of full consoles for games and few of them from the development costs. Sony failed to bring the games Nintendo does and that killed it far worse than a lack of a spinning disk drive that skipped if you shook it hard enough.
I mean yea that’s kinda my point, Sony had to have known they were not in fact Nintendo and were definitely not going to keep up with the amount of games Nintendo published. Keeping the drive would have been a cheap way to get a running start on the library.
They got greedy and thought people would be happy to re buy PSP games AND fork over money for their insanely priced memory sticks
They actually also made the go and a literal gaming cellphone at this time. I think they were trying to move away from the disks (they were up against the DS) and tried lots of things but put all the money in the hardware instead of the games.
Cause they are like Nintendo when you look at their main consoles.
It’s a great piece of hardware. Truly impressive and worth being praised for it but it failed super hard. And it’s not they didn’t keep up they just didn’t use enough of the budget to pay developers to develop the games, and thought people would just be excited about the hardware like they were.
The xperia play was not made by PlayStation and in fact PlayStation did not like the idea that they were using the PlayStation brand. That was all on big boy Sony and Sony Ericsson.
It was a gimmicky touch pad, the no drive is a negative, without that there was 0 backwards compatibility with the PSPs large library. Which I peg as the main reason it floundered so hard
OLED, 3G and better wifi could have easily been added to a 4th gen PSP iteration
Wait what are you on about? You can play literally ever PSP game ever with adrenaline.
They could play PSP games big issue was buying them again and not being able to download them on the unaffordable memory.
If it had games constantly coming out like the switch did when it first launched it would have been very similar. And if it had storage that was affordable doubly so.
Instead it had the pricing of full consoles for games and few of them from the development costs. Sony failed to bring the games Nintendo does and that killed it far worse than a lack of a spinning disk drive that skipped if you shook it hard enough.
I mean yea that’s kinda my point, Sony had to have known they were not in fact Nintendo and were definitely not going to keep up with the amount of games Nintendo published. Keeping the drive would have been a cheap way to get a running start on the library.
They got greedy and thought people would be happy to re buy PSP games AND fork over money for their insanely priced memory sticks
They actually also made the go and a literal gaming cellphone at this time. I think they were trying to move away from the disks (they were up against the DS) and tried lots of things but put all the money in the hardware instead of the games.
Cause they are like Nintendo when you look at their main consoles.
It’s a great piece of hardware. Truly impressive and worth being praised for it but it failed super hard. And it’s not they didn’t keep up they just didn’t use enough of the budget to pay developers to develop the games, and thought people would just be excited about the hardware like they were.
The xperia play was not made by PlayStation and in fact PlayStation did not like the idea that they were using the PlayStation brand. That was all on big boy Sony and Sony Ericsson.