The PlayStation Portable (PSP) is a handheld game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment. It was first released in Japan on December 12, 2004, in North America on March 24, 2005, and in PAL regions on September 1, 2005, and is the first handheld installment in the PlayStation line of consoles. As a seventh generation console, the PSP primarily competed with the Nintendo DS. Development of the PSP was announced during E3 2003, and the console was unveiled at a Sony press conference on May 11, 2004. The system was the most powerful portable console when it was introduced, and was the first real competitor of Nintendo's handheld consoles after many challengers, such as Nokia's N-Gage, had failed. The PSP's advanced graphics capabilities made it a popular mobile entertainment device, which could connect to the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3 consoles, computers running Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh software, other PSP systems, and the Internet. The PSP is the only handheld console to use an optical disc format – Universal Media Disc (UMD) – as its primary storage medium. The PSP was received positively by critics, and sold over 80 million units during its ten-year lifetime. Several models of the console were released, before the PSP line was succeeded by the PlayStation Vita, released in Japan in 2011 and worldwide a year later. The Vita has backward compatibility with PSP games that were released on the PlayStation Network through the PlayStation Store, which became the main method of purchasing PSP games after Sony shut down access to the store from the PSP on March 31, 2016. Hardware shipments of the PSP ended worldwide in 2014; production of UMDs ended when the last Japanese factory producing them closed in late 2016.
Title | Year | Console | Publisher | Genres | |
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Edge | PSP | Mobigame | Puzzle, Platform, Action | Download | |
Ben 10: Alien Force | PSP | D3 Publisher | Action-adventure | Download | |
Dead Head Fred | 2007 | PSP | Namco Bandai Games, D3 Publisher | Action-adventure, Platform, Action, Adventure | Download |
LocoRoco | 2006 | PSP | Sony Computer Entertainment | Puzzle, Platform, Action, Adventure, Strategy | Download |
Shaun White Snowboarding | 2008 | PSP | Ubisoft | Sports | Download |
Tomb Raider: Legend | 2006 | PSP | Eidos Interactive | Action-adventure, Platform, Action | Download |
WALL-E | 2008 | PSP | Disney Interactive Studios, THQ | Puzzle, Platform, Action, Adventure | Download |
Tales of Destiny 2 | 2007 | PSP | Namco | Role-playing | Download |
Fate/tiger colosseum | PSP | Capcom | Fighting | Download | |
Bubble Bobble Evolution | 2006 | PSP | Marvelous Entertainment Inc., Codemasters, Rising Star Games | Puzzle, Platform | Download |
LocoRoco 2 | 2009 | PSP | Sony Computer Entertainment | Puzzle, Platform, Action, Adventure, Strategy | Download |
MX vs. ATV: On the Edge | 2006 | PSP | THQ | Racing | Download |
Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection | 2008 | PSP | Crave Entertainment | Pinball, Simulation | Download |
WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2009 | 2008 | PSP | THQ | Fighting, Professional wrestling | Download |
Diablo | 1997 | PSP | Ubisoft, Electronic Arts, Electronic Arts Victor, Blizzard Entertainment | Action role-playing, hack and slash | Download |
Winning Eleven: Pro Evolution Soccer 6 | 2006 | PSP | Konami | Sports | Download |
Beowulf: The Game | PSP | Ubisoft | Action, Hack and slash | Download | |
Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law | 2008 | PSP | Capcom | Interactive movie, Adventure, Visual novel | Download |
Sega Genesis Collection | 2006 | PSP | Sega | Compilation | Download |
Spider-Man 2 | 2004 | PSP | Activision, Capcom, Nokia, Taito Corporation | Action-adventure, Action | Download |
Viewtiful Joe: Red Hot Rumble | 2005 | PSP | Capcom, Nintendo Australia | Action, Beat 'em up, Fighting | Download |
World Tour Soccer: Challenge Edition | PSP | Sony Computer Entertainment | Sports | Download | |
Bleach: Heat the Soul 4 | 2007 | PSP | Sony Computer Entertainment | Combat, Action, Fighting | Download |
Formula One 06 | 2006 | PSP | Sony Computer Entertainment | Racing | Download |
Go! Puzzle | 2008 | PSP | Sony Computer Entertainment | Puzzle | Download |
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas | 2006 | PSP | Ubisoft | Shooter, Action, Tactical shooter, First-person | Download |
SpongeBob SquarePants: The Yellow Avenger | 2006 | PSP | THQ | Platform, Action, Adventure | Download |
Puyo Puyo Fever 2 | 2005 | PSP | Sega | Puzzle, Action, Strategy | Download |
Blitz: The League | 2005 | PSP | Midway Games | Sports | Download |
Crazy Taxi: Fare Wars | 2007 | PSP | Sega | Action, Racing | Download |