Playstation portable- Sony's entry into the handheld market, and a good one at that. Was released in North America on March 24th 2005. Was Released Japan in late 2004 and came with firmware 1.0 while NA psp's were unfortunately upgraded to 1.5, since a 1.0 psp could run homebrew applications, and Sony's decision to restrict this was stupid- seeing as it could essentially be a Nintendo Revolution killer- free emulators portable? Runs umds (universal media disks) and memory stick duos.
PSP is better than DS in every aspect except battery, which is not as bad is it seems, and will soon be fixed with more efficient games and better batteries.
by Mr toasty June 1, 2005
Sony's first portable game system. It's like a GBA, iPod, VideoNow Color, Electronic Photo Album, and Internet all in one!
by ChoujinkiMetalder March 18, 2006
Definition 1 (Playstation Portable) - Sony's only portable system for video games. It rivals the Nintendo DS for supremacy of the portable video game market, and can also display images, audio and video. Additionally, it has support for wireless gameplay and internet surfing. Gameplay through the Universal Media Disc (UMD) can be laggy and choppy, along with excessive loading times. Despite this fact, UMDs can hold up to 1.8 GB of data. A large disadvantage is that the PSP lacks innovativity for gameplay, and has a rather low battery life while playing UMD games.
Definition 2 (Paint Shop Pro) - Large-scale graphic-editing software designed by Jasc Software. Rivals Adobe's Photoshop for the graphic-editing software market, despite its low price compared to Photoshop. However, the software is made specifically for Windows Operating Systems only, and is an obvious turn-off to non-Windows users because of it.
Definition 2 (Paint Shop Pro) - Large-scale graphic-editing software designed by Jasc Software. Rivals Adobe's Photoshop for the graphic-editing software market, despite its low price compared to Photoshop. However, the software is made specifically for Windows Operating Systems only, and is an obvious turn-off to non-Windows users because of it.
1) The PSP is superior to the DS when it comes to hardware specifications, but falls short in terms of gameplay innovativity.
2) PSP is a cheap alternative to Photoshop if you have a Windows OS.
2) PSP is a cheap alternative to Photoshop if you have a Windows OS.
by Spirit Pyromaniac January 2, 2007
by superfuckerman May 17, 2010
by AiNt BanGin June 21, 2009
A decent system that fanboys love to hate on. While it catalog pales in comparison to the DS, it does have some good games. And if you're able to hack your PSP, you'll be able to play about any console from a atari 2600 to the original playstation smoothly. In my opinion, a stock PSP is inferior to a DS, but the added possibilities a modded PSP has helps level the playing field quite a bit.
Systems Emulated by the PSP:
Nes, Snes, N64, Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Intellivision,Game Boy, GBA, Sega Master System, Sega Genesis, Sega CD, Sega Game Gear, TG-16, TI-99/4a, Amiga, Dos, MSX, Commodore-64...
Nes, Snes, N64, Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Intellivision,Game Boy, GBA, Sega Master System, Sega Genesis, Sega CD, Sega Game Gear, TG-16, TI-99/4a, Amiga, Dos, MSX, Commodore-64...
by Michael Scrogz April 2, 2008
The only way that Sony could compensate for that POS hardware that is known as the PS2 so they used its innards to make a good portable device and now dumbass consumers will flock to it only to buy inferior PS2 ports, which Is still not as bad as playing pseudo-interactive N64 ports on the DS
by Camp Si 71 April 7, 2005