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What it offers is a way to pass the time by watching movies, listening to music, playing games or surfing the web (if you're near a hotspot), whilst you are out and about.
The clarity and size of the screen also makes it a fantastic picture viewer. No longer will anyone with one of these need to print out photos to keep and show people, if you have new photos and want to show a relative, just whack them into your memory stick and you have a portable slideshow device.
At the end of the day, if you'd rather not have anything to do while you need to travel (I need to spend 40mins on a bus twice a day 5 days a week) or have music to listen to while you excercise etc, then you have no need for a PSP, for everyone else, it's quite simply brilliant.
It shows how persuaded I am by the hype and the media. If I wanted to play these PSP games so badly I would of bought a PS2 by now.
But the option of playing on the move which isnt there with the PS2 has me covered. Never owned a PS2 either. It's really down to the novelty of it being portable and how Ive got spending money to take to the USA next month.
My PSP get's used 49% for music, 50% for games and 1% for video.
It's a great purchase for me because not only do I have a super-duper handheld gaming console, I have a great replacement for my iPod that died earlier in the year. And I can watch movies/programmes if I feel the need to.
Now I can surf the net when I'm out and about too, without having to lug the lappy around.
it's sad is what it is.