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OPM asks 'What's up with the PSP?'

The Official PlayStation Magazine has a new feature article entitled "What's Up With The PSP?", in which the publication wonders if enthusiasm for the PSP is dwindling or if it's just a slow sales period.

"The PSP has traveled the spectrum of being hailed as the greatest piece of hardware since the introduction of the original PlayStation to being treated like a Goodwill store where developers drop off bare-bones ports and shoddy, old games."

"Since the release of the PSP on March 24, 2005, to the time of this writing, there have been approximately 30 games released, 17 of which were released during the launch window. round 10 or so of the games available could be considered ports of PlayStation 2 games, which is about one-third of the entire PSP library. And if you work out the math with the number of games released since the launch period, it comes out to less than one PSP game release per week—.76 games to be exact.

Even though there's always a slow period after the launch of new hardware, that's still not a lot of games for a platform that's supposed to change the face of portable gaming. What's even sadder is that those figures don't actually take into account the games that are worth buying."