Major gaming websites say the only advantage of the PSP are its multimedia functions, which even then are not that great. For the MP3 portion, you have to go buy so many memory cards. It is a jack of all trades, but master of none. Almost everyone I know that has a PSP have very little games for it. And as Munky said, the UMD's for Movies have fallen harder than King Kong. I personally would recommend a Nintendo DS or a Lite, but it all depends on what kind of games you like. What do you like btw? And since it is made by Sony, it is not quite so reliable if you were to drop it. Scratch that, if you drop it, you better make sure that warranty is still in place.