There’s talk about PSP2 being in development. PSP has been out what, 4-5 years?

With the success of smart phones, there’s a lot of development being done on mobile chipsets, with nVidia pushing their Tegra SOC, which is suppose to be in the Zune HD unit coming out this fall.

I was really interested in the PSP when it first came out. But thought about it and decided I really wouldn’t use it. I’ve taken a number of 10-15-hour flights to Europe over the years.

When I did play games to kill time, I was content with what they offered in the IFE systems, which were simple puzzle games like Bejeweled and old arcade games.

It was the same with the iPhone. I had some games on there and Wall-E and Dark Knight from the Blu-Rays I bought. But I just watched the more current movies they had, when I wasn’t sleeping or just listening to the iPod.

Games on the iPhone (and iPod Touch) are suppose to have partly influenced the PSP Go, because of the success of digital distribution.

The most popular games are 99 cents. Sales are ten times higher at 99 cents than even $5. A lot of these games seem to be simpler games that you play only for 5-10 minutes at a time.

You don’t want to burn up your battery playing games and not being able to use the phone

EA is making iPhone games but you wonder for how long. They can charge $10 for Tiger Woods or the Sims 3. But they’re competing with games which are much cheaper or free.

Sure these simpler games don’t have the depth or glossy production values of console or PSP/DS games. Still, people may not necessarily be interested in a deeper game on a mobile device.

PSP had some big hits in games like God of War and GT Mobile will be huge as well. These though seem to be a handful of exceptions. I think though I’d rather play those kinds of games on a big HDTV than on a mobile device.

Nintendo has so many exclusive, proven franchises that they can still get $30-40 for DS games. But Sony? Maybe they’re not so keen to develop a PSP2 after all.