25 Facts About Sony PSP

The Sony PSP had a vast array of multimedia features such as video playback, audio playback, and has been considered a portable media player as well.

The Sony PSP is the only handheld console to use an optical disc format—in this case, Universal Media Disc —as its primary storage medium; both games and movies have been released on the format.

Sony PSP was received positively by critics, and sold over 80 million units during its ten-year lifetime.

Several models of the console were released, before the Sony PSP line was succeeded by the PlayStation Vita, released in Japan in 2011 and worldwide a year later.

Hardware shipments of the Sony PSP ended worldwide in 2014; production of UMDs ended when the last Japanese factory producing them closed in late 2016.

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In January 1999, Sony PSP had released the briefly successful PocketStation in Japan as its first foray into the handheld gaming market.

Sony PSP released a list of 99 developer companies that pledged support for the new handheld.

Sony PSP defended the high price by saying North American consumers had to pay local sales taxes and that the Value Added Tax was higher in the UK than the US.

Sony PSP-2000, marketed in PAL countries as the "Sony PSP Slim", is the first redesign of the PlayStation Portable.

The use of the cradle with the controller allow players to use the Sony PSP Go as a portable device and as a console, although the output is not upscaled.

In June 2010, Sony PSP began bundling the console with 10 free downloadable games; the same offer was made available in Australia in July.

Sony PSP-E1000, which was announced at Gamescom 2011, is a budget-focused model that was released across the PAL region on October 26 of that year.

The Sony PSP-2000 was made available in piano black, ceramic white, ice silver, mint green, felicia blue, lavender purple, deep red, matte bronze, metallic blue, and rose pink as standard colors.

Sony PSP-3000 was made available in piano black, pearl white, mystic silver, radiant red, vibrant blue, spirited green, blossom pink, turquoise green and lilac purple.

Sony PSP Internet Browser is a version of the NetFront browser and came with the system via the 2.

At Tokyo Game Show 2009, Sony announced that a service similar to PlayStation Home, the PS3's online community-based service, was being developed for the PSP.

The Sony PSP has support for the playback of MP3 and ATRAC audio files, as well as WMA since firmware version 2.

Sony PSP partnered with publishers such as Rebellion Developments, Disney, IDW Publishing, Insomnia Publications, iVerse, Marvel Comics, and Titan Books to release digitized comics on the PlayStation Store.

Sony PSP shut down the Digital Comics service in September 2012.

Launch games for Sony PSP included; Ape Escape: On the Loose, Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower, Dynasty Warriors, Lumines, Metal Gear Acid, Need for Speed: Underground Rivals, NFL Street 2: Unleashed, Ridge Racer, Spider-Man 2, Tiger Woods PGA Tour, Tony Hawk's Underground 2 Remix, Twisted Metal: Head-On, Untold Legends: Brotherhood of the Blade, Wipeout Pure, and World Tour Soccer: Challenge Edition .

The best selling Sony PSP game is Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, which sold 7.

Emulation of the Sony PSP is well-developed; one of the first emulators was JPCSP, which run on Java.

Sony PSP received generally positive reviews soon after launch; most reviewers noted similar strengths and weaknesses.

From a multimedia perspective, the Sony PSP has been seen as a competitor to portable media players, notably the iPod Video that was released in the same year.

In late 2005, Sony said it had hired graffiti artists to spray-paint advertisements for the PSP in seven major U S cities, including New York City, Atlanta, Philadelphia, and San Francisco.

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