{"id":2929,"date":"2010-06-11T15:38:09","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T20:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/?p=2929"},"modified":"2010-06-11T15:38:09","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T20:38:09","slug":"is-the-psp-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/06\/11\/is-the-psp-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the PSP Done?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like some are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.industrygamers.com\/news\/3ds-needs-to-wow-psp-2-will-be-a-yawn-says-analyst\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.industrygamers.com\/news\/3ds-needs-to-wow-psp-2-will-be-a-yawn-says-analyst\/', 'speculating');\" target=\"_blank\">speculating<\/a> that a Sony announcement of a PSP2 will be received with a lukewarm reception at best.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The 3DS might not be the only handheld coming out, as it\u2019s widely rumored that Sony will announce a new PSP.  Even if a PSP2 is unveiled, it won\u2019t have a big impact, Greenwald believes. \u201cSony may also launch a new PSP, which likely won\u2019t elicit much more than a yawn from attendees and investors,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is the PSP as a brand really done?  If yes, it is a damn shame.  There was so much potential, but in my opinion the price point of the games, which are often very close to their big brother console equivalent, is the biggest factor in a lack of success.<\/p>\n<p>The PSP2 really needs a lot of bells and whistles in order to captivate the portable gaming audience.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like some are speculating that a Sony announcement of a PSP2 will be received with a lukewarm reception at best. The 3DS might not be the only handheld coming out, as it\u2019s widely rumored that Sony will announce a new PSP. Even if a PSP2 is unveiled, it won\u2019t have a big impact, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/06\/11\/is-the-psp-done\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is the PSP Done?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-2929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-psp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2930,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions\/2930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}