Tips on buying a PSP?

[Teze]

I wanna buy a PSP any tips on buying one? Whats good, whats bad, all that jazz. Help please?

 

[Teze]

PSP bad. DS good.

That is all :3

Had one... it broke (possibly thinking of getting a new one) >.<

 

[TheJakester16]

i have had the original PSP for 3 years now (i think) and i have never had any problems. I also think - well i know - that it has much better graphics than the pixely DS, and is more of a mini PS2/3 than a hand held

 

[mikecoulter]

Get the white PSP 3000. PSP Go! is a terrible waste of money...

Also, get Gran Turismo PSP, Vice City Stories and WipEout Pulse. The latter being one of my personal favourite games ever.

 

[LeonLethality]

Get the PSP 3000
Get Monster Hunter Freedom Unite
Get Dissidia Final Fantasy
Get Wild Arms

That's my advice =D

 

[Crops]

Depending on the games you play, the Psp Go button layout is terrible. (I'm looking at you, Monster Hunter games)

So personally, I'd go for something older.
There's not much difference between the Phat and Slim psp's except the Slim ones feel a bit less solid and reliable to me.
But getting a proper working Phat psp might be difficult or expensive.

 

[Teze]

you can get an R4 or something

Been there... However i dont like to steal games

Also cool i'll add all these to my ever growing list of games to buy. ^^

 

[Kouen]

PSP 3000 is nice, i got the original one and id pick it over ds any day

as for games

FF7 Crisis Core
Manhunt 2
WTF
Tekken 6
Ridge Racer

they pop to mind atm but my brain is half asleep if i remember more ill post em

 

[fix-the-spade]

I wanna buy a PSP any tips on buying one? Whats good, whats bad, all that jazz. Help please?

Regardless of whatever special offers are thrown at you, do not buy a PSP GO under any circumstances. Any percieved saving you make will be wiped out by the first game you purchase and only made worse by any games you buy after that.

PSP3000 models are retty good, plus you get a physical copy of the game when you buy it and you can use the second hand market.

 

[Hellz_Barz]

If your a button masher like me don't make tekken the first game you get. Its how i broke my psp.

 

[Kouen]

oh I forgot

Untold Legends Brotherhood of the Blade and Dungeon Siege: Throne of Agony

 

[Jamiemitsu]

Well, don't get the "go" unless you don't mind having to download ALL your games off PSN. Also, once you do get one, you should be careful not to ruin the screen, scratches easily.

 

[SextusMaximus]

1. Go to game shop
2. Pick up PSP
3. Go to counter
4. Give money to man
5. ???
6. PROFIT!!!

...Or buy a DS.

 

[Volafortis]

Had 2 PSPs. UMD drive died on the first, and I hear the drive failures are more common than you'd like. Also, most of the games are watered down console game ports.

I much prefer my DS.

 

[dommyuk]

Been there... However i dont like to steal games

I usually just use them as demos. Plus there are some visual novel homebrews... anyway.

Make a PS2p!

http://benheck.com/ps2-portable

That is the most awesome handheld I've ever seen.

I'm currently on my 3rd PSP, the keyboard on the first one eventually broke and went insane, I got the second one a bit too wet and it started sparking at me, hasn't worked since. Though the library of games isn't that big, there are some very awesome games on it, just avoid the PSPGo. I'd suggest anything with Final Fantasy in the name if you like RPGs along with Star Ocean: First Departure and Star Ocean: Second Evolution, especially the second one, even if you don't like RPG's because that game is amazing. <3

 

[Manji187]

I wanna buy a PSP any tips on buying one? Whats good, whats bad, all that jazz. Help please?

Well, here's a small list of things I tried and liked:

-Syphon Filter Dark Mirror & Syphon Filter Logan's Shadow
-God of War: Chains of Olympus
-Resistance: Retribution
-Tekken Dark Resurrection (cuz Tekken 6 sucks)
-Grand Theft Auto Vice City Stories and Liberty City Stories
-Jak & Daxter: The Lost Frontier
-Tomb Raider: Anniversary
-Monster Hunter Freedom Unite
-Dissidia: Final Fantasy
-Wipeout Pure
-Burnout Legends

 

[Deadlock Radium]

The PSP model before Go! and Gran Turismo PSP = Epic win.
I've got it myself, and the Gran Turismo graphics are about the same as the graphics in Gran Turismo 4 on the PS2. Love it.

 

[MadeinHell]

Here is a tip.
Don't buy a PSP.