Can you please educate me on PSP?

[keenercam]

DS13 wants a PSP and has been saving his money for months to buy it. Can you please tell me what it is and whether you think it is a good gift for him for $199?

Also, any suggestions on where to buy it at the least expensive price?

Are the games expensive?

Have there been any technical glitches with the item that would make it smarter to wait for whatever the next model is going to be (kind of like the newly restructured nano)?

Thanks for your help!

 

[Fitswimmer]

I've had mine for about a year and I love it. It has made plane trips and waiting in airports much more fun! The games run everywhere from $19.99 to $49.99-and you can find good deals on used ones. I haven't had any problems with mine at all, and I don't recall any early glitches. The only problem is that if he's getting it to play movies, the UMD movie market is shrinking fast and may not be continued. If he wants it for a portable game system, access the internet wirelessly and to store music and photos-it's great.

 

[NewJersey]

I've had mine for about a year and I love it. It has made plane trips and waiting in airports much more fun! The games run everywhere from $19.99 to $49.99-and you can find good deals on used ones. I haven't had any problems with mine at all, and I don't recall any early glitches. The only problem is that if he's getting it to play movies, the UMD movie market is shrinking fast and may not be continued. If he wants it for a portable game system, access the internet wirelessly and to store music and photos-it's great.

Hope all is well!


I think I might look into getting one as well. I use my ipod on the train into the city for work but the PSP looks like more fun!

 

[golfgal]

I don't know anything about the game but let me give you an example of something that happened in our house: DD was diligently saving her money to buy an American Girl Doll. Mom, me, gets a great idea and gets it for her for Christmas. DD loves the doll, thanks mom it's great, yadda, yadda, yadda. About 2 weeks after Christmas she comes up to me and says, "mom, can I use the money I saved for this doll to buy another doll?" Of course honey why. "Mom, I really like my doll but I really wanted to buy it for myself". OOPS. She was 8 at the time. She saved more money bought the new doll and was SOOOOO excited to hand over the money she worked so hard to save for that doll.

 

[golfgal]

oh, moral of the story, buy him some GAMES for the system not the system. Those cost more in the long run anyway.

 

[kejoda]

If you want to fight the crowds Wal*Mart is selling the PSP for 169.?? on black Friday.

 

[Fitswimmer]

Hope all is well!


I think I might look into getting one as well. I use my ipod on the train into the city for work but the PSP looks like more fun!

Have you recovered from last week yet?? WOW, what a game!!!

I like the PSP because if I get into playing a game, the surrounding airport universe of people yakking on cellphones, crying babies and people griping about the delays at Newark just fades away.....

 

[Anewman]

If you want to fight the crowds Wal*Mart is selling the PSP for 169.?? on black Friday.

If(I dont know) Walmart has a price protection/matching thing, you might be able to purchase it there now and then get the adjustment on Black friday.

 

[keenercam]

Thank you so much, everyone, for the information and advice.

I also think that letting DS buy his own PSP would make him appreciate it more. Maybe we will give him gift cards to buy games and accessories or buy some games for Christmas gifts. I just don't think he'll have enough money saved by then to buy it himself and thought this might be a nice surprise. I'll definitely have to give that aspect of it more thought.

 

[Fitswimmer]

Thank you so much, everyone, for the information and advice.

I also think that letting DS buy his own PSP would make him appreciate it more. Maybe we will give him gift cards to buy games and accessories or buy some games for Christmas gifts. I just don't think he'll have enough money saved by then to buy it himself and thought this might be a nice surprise. I'll definitely have to give that aspect of it more thought.

Maybe you can give him a game or two for it and tell him that you'll make up the difference btw what he has and what it costs. That way you're supporting the fact that he's saved the money and still helping him out. It's not like when we were kids when you could buy the hot toy for $40-$50.

 

[Jennifer S]

I am not a big fan of warranties but for this I highly suggest you get it if you buy one. My friend's son dropped his in less than a week and it broke. They did not have the warranty. The guy at the store did replace for free but insisted the buy the warranty for it.


We did buy one for our PS2 it broke in two months - they replaced for free because we bought the warranty. These things are fragile def. worth the $.

 

[spazzyjazzy]

My son's is making some weird noise and the games will not load and he has only had it for about a year. He loves it and would like to get his repaired or replaced ( yeah right).
Some advice if your child gets it it to make sure that once he has it all charged to go in and put the parental controls on the wireless internet.

 

[Papa Deuce]

I have a PSP... sits in my closet. I have a DS Lite.... gets played a LOT! I think the games for PSP are just not nearly as fun as the DS Lite. But PSP does play those movies - however, rumor is, that unless sales pick up soon for the movies, they won't be maing them much longer.

 

[NewJersey]

Have you recovered from last week yet?? WOW, what a game!!!

I like the PSP because if I get into playing a game, the surrounding airport universe of people yakking on cellphones, crying babies and people griping about the delays at Newark just fades away.....

Oh I still get all excited when I think about it!!!

I'm heading to EWR later today for a flight so I'll be needing it! And I agree about it helps to tune the other things out.