Gardiner Bryant4d ago

Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026

> Over the past few months, I've spotted something a little odd and unexpected happening to Sony's old PlayStation Portable. There's been no corporate push, no announcement of the truly portable Sony handheld we used to hope for (sorry, Portal). Instead, through something far less predictable, considering it's 2026, people are...

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Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026

Over the past few months, I've spotted something a little odd and unexpected happening to Sony's old PlayStation Portable. There's been no corporate push, no announcement of the truly portable Sony handheld we used to hope for (sorry, Portal). Instead, through something far less predictable, considering it's 2026, people are

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@gardiner_bryant This reminds me of how my biggest hope with the Switch was that it would basically just end up being a 3DS with games that didn't have to have SD characters and miniaturized worlds on principle. (That was one thing that bothered me about the 3DS. A lot of it wasn't hardware limitations. A lot of it was devs just seeing "Nintendo handheld" and dumbing stuff down on purpose on that principle alone.) I enjoyed the idea of the fact it could connect to a TV, but I wanted it to be primarily handheld. Yet in the end the Switch got bigger and bigger, heavier and heavier, and so much is being made so poorly optimized that even on the big screen (with the CPU, GPU, and RAM all going up) they still play badly.

The PSP found a right balance of quite a lot of things. I miss that

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