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PlayStation Portable
Stock photograph of a PlayStation Portable unit
Other names
PSP
Type
Handheld
Distributor
Sony Computer Entertainment
Reading: PlayStation Portable
Release date
Late 2004
End of service
March 31, 2016 (direct-to-device)
July 2, 2021 (storefront, in-app purchase)
Current software version
6.61
Supported media formats
Sony Universal Media Disc (UMD), digital distribution
(Varies with model)
User storage formats
- Sony Memory Stick PRO Duo (Models 1000, 2000, 3000, E1000)
- Sony Memory Stick Micro M2 (Model N1000 only)
First series release
Final Fantasy 20th Anniversary
2007
2007
The PlayStation Portable ( formally abbreviated as PSP ) was a hand-held game comfort released and manufactured by Sony Interactive Entertainment. Its growth was first announced during E³ 2003, and it was officially unveiled at a Sony press conference before E³ 2004. The system was released in late 2004. The PlayStation Portable had the ability to play video recording games, watch television, listen to music, and see images. The PSP was besides one of the first radio hand-held systems, bearing an built-in Wi-Fi adapter that permitted Internet shop adenine well as radio receiver local act for choice games and use as a “ irregular blind ” for the PlayStation 3. Since the PSP was an Internet-enabled device, users could purchase and play master PlayStation games from the PlayStation Network on the PSP.. The hand-held system and many of its associated services were discontinued worldwide in 2014. The PSP was succeeded by the PlayStation Vita, with which its downloadable games are compatible. Device-based PSN services for this system were discontinued in the United States as of March 31, 2016 [ 1 ]. As of April 2021, PlayStation Network services remain operational, but will be terminated July 2, 2021 as per an e-mail statement to registered PSN users. evening therefore, it is still potential to sideload anterior purchases from the PlayStation Store web site ( Microsoft Windows systems entirely ), or by using a PS3 in concurrence with the PlayStation Store applet on the comfort.
Read more: How to Download PSP Games to a Memory Stick
Hardware versions
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PlayStation Portable hardware undergo a many as four major revisions, each improving in terms of hardware, memory capacity, and firmware capabilities over the unit of measurement before it and besides decreasing overall size and weight. The final mainline exemplar, the PSP-3000 series, was the slimmest. It allowed for direct output to a criterion television receiver screen via cable connect, besides adding excess UMD hoard memory for quick load times, a bright riddle and an inner microphone that previous revisions lacked. The fourthly model, PSP-N1000, dubbed PSPgo, eschewed the original series ‘ UMD drives in favor of a digital-only distribution model. This model had 16 GB of internal flash memory with support for up to 32 GB M2 cards as external memory .
universal Media Disc format
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Games and movies for the PSP were released on Sony ‘s exclusive Universal Media Disc ( UMD ) format. broadly based on earlier DVDs, the UMD was approximately 2.5 inches in diameter and held improving to 1.8 GB of data, protected in a plastic enclosure. Although movies were required to conform to DVD region locking, PSP UMD games were largely region-free .
Final Fantasy titles for PSP titles for PSP
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UMD
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number of Final Fantasy titles on UMD .
list of Final Fantasy titles on the PlayStation Network .
PSOne Classics
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UMD Videos
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relate titles for PSP
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special Limited Editions
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To mark the secrete of Final Fantasy games on the system, Square Enix has released respective Limited Edition versions of the PlayStation Portable.
Crisis Core
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Square Enix released on September 13th, 2007, a limited Edition PSP Slim ; The comfort bundled with the game, arsenic well as a Buster Sword wrist strap. The PSP itself is silver in color and featured the Final Fantasy VII 10th Anniversary logo a good as some artwork of Zack, Sephiroth, and Cloud pull back by Nomura. only 77,777 units were available and all of them were sold in one sidereal day. A similar bundle was besides released in Europe, but lacked the Buster Sword wrist strap and the slenderly changed cover art for the game. While this set was limited arsenic well, it is not known how many packages were produced.
Dissidia
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Square Enix bundled this limited Edition PSP with the game itself. It was sold in a special one-week-only to a choose group of winners of a lottery in Japan. alone Square Enix members could enter the contest.
