PSP: Online at launch. ... good job dropping the ball, Nintendo

[A Black Falcon]

And if you live in one of the very few cities in the country with a wide wireless network, then good for you. You can use your PSP almost anywhere. But seriously, how big is that market?

Here's another thought... portable gaming systems are meant to be used anywhere. Unless it's a cell phone-like connection (like N-Gage), and thus slow, you just can't have it EVERYWHERE. Wireless internet? So you can use it at home. Not anywhere else though. (sure, that's still better than a cord, true...) Live in a city with it? Then you're lucky and can use it most of the time, unless you leave town. But really... I've heard talk of some of these being set up, but also that it's expensive and that will limit the spread of big, free wireless networks.

Sure, it would be really annoying to have to be connected to a wire to play online games on a portable console. And of course it's not ideal. But cutting off such a huge percentage of your market (that has connections fast enough to play) is just such a stupid idea...

At this point in time, I really think that PSP internet play is more hype and 'cool factor' than it is an actual widely usable feature for most of the probable purchasers of the system.