i recently found out one of my nephews is demanding a psp as a xmas present off his mother. the lads totally destructive, he's personally responsible for destroying his parents kitchen by climbig on all the cupboards and appliances. i think he's about 10 or 11 years old now and still not trust worthy.
anyhow, he thinks it's cool, peer pressure means he has to have one, only he has NO pc or internet. he's going to be severely limited to what uses he can put the psp to. he'll be unable to rip his films to psp format to stick on a memory stick and watch whilst out. come to think of it, that memory sticks going to be pretty much useless period!
reminds me of when his older brother asked for and got an mp3 player for xmas and he ended up with no way to put his music on it!
for now my Palm can play movies, works as an mp3 player and plays simple 8 bit style games. and it does office/organiser stuff, can work with native word, excel files and i'm off to get a foldout infra red powered keyboard for it so it's a lightwight laptop for writing and college work. i didn't need the psp's gaming capabilities (and i've been informed the games aren't very good anyhow by friends that have handled the unit) so my Tungsten E2 seems to beat the psp handsdown on being a true multimedia device and it cost less even if the cpu is lower powered than a psp!!!!
my Palm handles 320x320 resolution, 15fps 120kbs with Kinoma Producer, but TCMPC player means i just rip films with jetaudio at 320x320, 25fps and 200kbs that stutter a little bit but are okay to watch. the psp rates at 320x320, 15fps, 384kbs.
are you going to buy into the myth of the psp being a true multimedia unit or avoid peer pressure and look at a Palm or equivalent instead?