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''Step Your Game Up.''
Short story: the PlayStation Portable could be called a "successful failure". It was a failure in stealing the market from Nintendo for the third time in a row, but a success in that it still sold tens of millions of systems (so far has sold nearly 70% as many systems as the original [[
Long story: in 2004, Sony was riding high off the first two PlayStation systems<ref>Both which put Sony on the top of two [[Console Wars]], dethroning Nintendo from home consoles in the 5th console generation and beating Microsoft's newcomer system in the 6th, both systems outsold all their competitors '''combined''' by over 2-to-1.</ref>, and decided to get into the handheld market, confident they could repeat their success for a third time. The gaming press was just as confident. It seemed like all the factors were in place for it to happen. Sony's use of discs versus the DS' cartridges, a traditional controller versus an unconventional controller (a touch screen this time instead of a three-pronged gamepad), better third-party support, multimedia capabilities, and far greater processing power (which wasn't the case with the last two systems, but still a touted factor) had all paid off for Sony in the past. It seemed like the PSP could become the leader in the handheld gaming market, dethroning Nintendo.
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* Featured a 3.4-inch 16:9 TFT LCD screen displaying a 480 x 272 image in 16.8 million colors.
* This chip can ostensibly generate 33 million flat-shaded polygons per second, but that's a theoretical maximum.
* The system comes with partial hardware rendering, instead of strictly software rendering that the [[
== Wireless Connectivity ==
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* ''[[Dead or Alive]]: Paradise''
* ''[[Disgaea Hour of Darkness|Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness]]''
** ''[[Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories|Disgaea 2: Dark Hero Days]]''
** ''[[Disgaea Infinite]]''
* ''[[Dissidia Final Fantasy]]''
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* ''[[Prince of Persia]]: Revelations''
** ''Prince of Persia: Rival Swords''
* ''[[Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero?]]''
** ''Prinny 2: Dawn of the Operation Panties, Dood!''
* ''[[Pursuit Force]]''
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