{"id":69981,"date":"2014-10-30T14:36:57","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T12:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=69981"},"modified":"2014-10-30T14:38:14","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T12:38:14","slug":"why-the-psp-was-the-best-handheld-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/69981-why-the-psp-was-the-best-handheld-ever","title":{"rendered":"Why the PSP was the best handheld ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sony PlayStation Portable holds a special place in many gamers&#8217; hearts, mine included.<\/p>\n<p>Commonly referred to as the PSP, the handheld device was Sony&#8217;s first big step into mobile gaming. The PSP was unveiled at E3 2004, and was released in Japan in December that year. On 6 September 2007 Sony released the PSP-2000, which was 33% lighter and 19% slimmer than its predecessor.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the unit being sold with a Sony stamp on it, the PSP also introduced the Universal Media Disc (UMD) &#8211; a storage device which could hold 1.8GB of data.<\/p>\n<p>The UMD was paired with a Memory Stick Pro Duo, which was used to store files and games downloaded from the PlayStation Store.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the UMD&#8217;s failure to gain traction as a format &#8211; and the ill-conceived PSP variants such as the PSP Go &#8211; the PlayStation Portable brought the technological edge and higher-def graphics that were lacking from Nintendo&#8217;s offerings at the time.<\/p>\n<p>After selling roughly 80 million units, Sony announced that it would be discontinuing the PSP by the end of 2014.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Cue the nostalgia<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ulb6Ic4517g?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The handheld console had some great games &#8211; these are the ones which sold the most copies and scored the highest among critics.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Bestselling PSP Games<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories \u2013 7.6 million copies<\/li>\n<li>Monster Hunter: Freedom Unite \u2013 5.4 million copies<\/li>\n<li>Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories \u2013 4.9 million copies<\/li>\n<li>Monster Hunter: Freedom 3 &#8211; 4.8 million copies<\/li>\n<li>Daxter &#8211; 4.4 million copies<\/li>\n<li>Ratchet &amp; Clank: Size Matters \u2013 3.7 million copies<\/li>\n<li>Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition \u2013 3.6 million copies<\/li>\n<li>God of War: Chains of Olympus \u2013 3.1 million copies<\/li>\n<li>Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII \u2013 3.1 million copies<\/li>\n<li>Medal of Honor: Heroes \u2013 2.62 million copies<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Highest Rated Games according to Metacritic.com<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>God of War: Chains of Olympus \u2013 91<\/li>\n<li>Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars \u2013 90<\/li>\n<li>Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 Portable \u2013 89<\/li>\n<li>Lumines \u2013 89<\/li>\n<li>Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker \u2013 89<\/li>\n<li>Wipeout Pure \u2013 88<\/li>\n<li>Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lion &#8211; 88<\/li>\n<li>Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories \u2013 88<\/li>\n<li>OMG-Z \u2013 88<\/li>\n<li>Tekken: Dark Resurrection \u2013 88<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">A look back at the PSP classics<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aanwgyZcVzY?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Daxter<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s99lAWgUzdI?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Ratchet and Clank: Size Matters<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Uh0BmNa564A?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">MediEvil<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IYolQxJGEeU?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uYuK_d7lPfk?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/columns\/69979-games-perfect-for-halloween.html\">Games perfect for Halloween<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/67682-pc-gaming-problems-of-the-90s.html\">PC gaming problems of the 90s<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/70120-gta-5-pc-ps4-xbox-one-pre-order-price-roundup.html\">GTA 5 \u2013 PC, PS4, Xbox One pre-order price roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We take a look back at the Sony PlayStation Portable<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":213,"featured_media":70190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[21,1870,973,71],"class_list":["post-69981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-headline","tag-playstation","tag-psp","tag-sony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70192,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69981\/revisions\/70192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}