Continuing on where I left off the other day some more of my thoughts and observations on the console psp. I mentioned the other day that I went for the psp console black as my first psp purchase and why I liked it. Whilst there are many different varieties of psp consoles for sale the “classic” psp is still available and very entertaining for all ages. The few things I am not mad about is that the screen is easy to scratch (so you will need to get a case) and as a result this might not be the flavour of psp for young children. That said there are screen guards and shields available.
I had originally planned to make this quite a long post but thought a video reviewing the psp would be helpful at this point.
First a bit of background. I first bought a PSP when I flew to Las Vegas two years ago. Now, there aren’t too many options when you are after a direct flight between London and Vegas – in fact there was only one – Virgin Atlantic. Now, I do like that airline a great deal, it is just flying from Gatwick their planes rarely have a games system, and if they do it is from 1995 and we all know games and game consoles have moved on a fair bit since then! For those of you that do not know, the flight time is around 11 hours, and watching films on a loop (no on-demand system for movies) would have made me go insane! So, I took action and got myself a playstation portable psp console.
Now, you can get many different colours, even a pink psp console, but I went for the psp console black. I also got a few games with it.
During the flight I played it a fair bit and it certainly helped pass quite a few hours I assure you all!
What I liked about it was the high quality graphics – as powerful as a playstation 2, just you can hold it in your hand. I know a few people have complained that games are slow to load, but I really did not experience that at all, a few seconds really and that was all. I am aware that 15 seconds or so can be long for some people but I am fine with it!
Now – what I did not like so much was the controls. I love the joystick control on the playstation 2/3 and am surprised they did not decide to scale it down for the new psp console.
Anyway, that’s it for my first post. The review will continue in the next post which I hope to do soon.