| PSP, no this isn't some new form of PCP or LSD or | | | | alternative to buying games in stores is download |
| new street drug of choice, though it is a huge | | | | them online, and the PSP seems to want to |
| favorite among teens and college aged kids on the | | | | encourage 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 from | | | | There are, in fact, over a dozen web sites set up |
| Sony for their Play Station franchise. This new | | | | specifically for downloading games. Most of these |
| gaming system is light years evolved ahead of the | | | | sites have a membership fee, ranging from a month |
| Nintendo Gameboys that helped to start the whole | | | | to a year. A few of the web sites even have the |
| craze, and PSPs offer far more options than their | | | | option of life time memberships for a larger one time |
| "ancient" predecessors. | | | | fee. |
| PSPs are gaining strongly in popularity. Many | | | | The nice thing for Play Station fans who are looking |
| advertisements on television commercials will even | | | | at 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 system | | | | how radically the controls changed from the original |
| to adapt to multi-functional usage is one of the | | | | Nintendo system to the Super Nintendo system, to |
| aspects that makes it so appealing. While there were | | | | the N-64, to the Nintendo Game Cube. Fans of the |
| definitely some early detractors to the new PSP | | | | Sony systems won't have to worry: whatever small |
| model when it was initially introduced (along with a | | | | changes are made, they are all still based and |
| huge number of gaming fans who swore by the | | | | designed on the original controller that everyone has |
| Nintendo DS portable system) Sony's PSP console's | | | | become familiar with. The PSPs thus have the |
| ascent in popularity has been amazing, and | | | | familiarity of all the previous Sony Play Station |
| remarkably fast, much like the popularity of Apple's | | | | features 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 games | | | | PSPs a great chance at staying in the popular |
| have come into much higher demand. The cheaper | | | | mainstream. |