PSP: The New Wave

PSP, no this isn't some new form of PCP or LSD oralternative to buying games in stores is download
new street drug of choice, though it is a hugethem online, and the PSP seems to want to
favorite among teens and college aged kids on theencourage these online sites to make downloading of
streets. The PSP stands for Play Station Portable.the games and spreading of the game much easier.
This is the newest hand held gaming system fromThere are, in fact, over a dozen web sites set up
Sony for their Play Station franchise. This newspecifically for downloading games. Most of these
gaming system is light years evolved ahead of thesites have a membership fee, ranging from a month
Nintendo Gameboys that helped to start the wholeto a year. A few of the web sites even have the
craze, and PSPs offer far more options than theiroption of life time memberships for a larger one time
"ancient" predecessors.fee.
PSPs are gaining strongly in popularity. ManyThe nice thing for Play Station fans who are looking
advertisements on television commercials will evenat a PSP is that the controls have not been radically
mention a movie coming out on PSP as well as DVD.changed. One thing about Nintendo, for example, was
The ability of this consul and portable gaming systemhow radically the controls changed from the original
to adapt to multi-functional usage is one of theNintendo system to the Super Nintendo system, to
aspects that makes it so appealing. While there werethe N-64, to the Nintendo Game Cube. Fans of the
definitely some early detractors to the new PSPSony systems won't have to worry: whatever small
model when it was initially introduced (along with achanges are made, they are all still based and
huge number of gaming fans who swore by thedesigned on the original controller that everyone has
Nintendo DS portable system) Sony's PSP console'sbecome familiar with. The PSPs thus have the
ascent in popularity has been amazing, andfamiliarity of all the previous Sony Play Station
remarkably fast, much like the popularity of Apple'sfeatures that make them so popular while also adding
iPod.new benefits and bonuses to the equation, giving the
With the emergence of the console, PSP gamesPSPs a great chance at staying in the popular
have come into much higher demand. The cheapermainstream.