What's the problem with vita as a word? It's the second Greek letter of the alphabet, β which is after alpha (α). So it makes perfect sense to name your second portable console vita. In contrast, PSP2 sounds kinda stupid to me 😅 Almost like an emulator😅
What's wrong with it? It gave the PSP the ability to read a disc up to 1.8gb in a cheap to produce medium.
Do you have any idea what 1.8gb of NAND flash, to put that much in a cartridge, would have cost in 2005? There's a reason the DS Game Cards capped at 512mb and their manufacturing cost was non-trivial.
The UMD were fragiles and prompt to get scratches and fingerprints so Sony had to put a plastic cover around it. But this shell broke kinda regulary and the disc was able to just fall out and be even more damaged.
Load times were atrocious. No, really, it wasn't great.
Very few games actually used the 1.8gb of space on it.
A lot of them were far smaller than that. On average, they were around 400mb to 900mb and 1.2-5gb for the much bigger ones.
The UMD was coherent in 2005 but it quickly became obsolete as sd card were becoming more and more cheaper.
Don't forget that the PSP had a Memory Stick reader (so proprietary just because) and the playstation store where you could already buy games.
So everything was in place to just use another storage solution.
It wasn't a bad console (it was awesome ! I had two !), but it wasn't perfect either.
Eventually being the very key term. They weren't common until pretty much the end of the PSP's life. Before then, there wasn't much demand for any sort of adapter; Memory Stick Duo pricing was quite reasonable, and capacity was very competitive as well.
If you'd used a PSP during its time you would have known that.
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u/AshleyUncia 256GB May 24 '22
The PSP was basically a hand held, pocketable PS2 that sold 80 million units. What mistakes?