Gaming System Question

I am thinking about buying my daughter a Sony PSP handheld game. Just from some of what I have read you can play movies on this thing? Load music on it like a MP3 player and oh play games? Can someone in english explain this. You gotta have several memory chips I am sure. One for maybe one movie, one for a few songs and one for gaming

 

I love my PSP. You can play movies, but they are not regular DVDs, they are UMDs(universal media disc)They cost about the same as a dvd. You can play MP3s on it, but you have to hook a USB cable to it and get the songs from your computer. You do need a bigger memory stick if you want to listen to music. It comes with a 32 mb memory stick, I have a 256mb one and can hold about 60 songs and some game saves. The graphics on the system are almost ps2 quality. The system is great but I would ask how old your daughter is because this thing costs $250 and is kind of fragile. If that is a problem you might want to try the GBA sp(gameboy advance) I hope I helped a litlle.

 

She is 15. There is software out there that can change movies to the PSP format but it looks like a pain

 

Thats only for movies downloaded from online. The one you buy are already formatted. Trust me there are tons of movies already out. UMD is getting very big.

 

I am up to around 440 movies. I down load the software thats out there and then move it via USB to PSP and she has a movie to watch on a long trip?

 

yuppers

you might want to buy the 1 gig memory stick though

 

Yeah you can convert your DVDs to a memory stick to play them, however I've heard they don't look as good as a UMD which you buy. Obviously even a 1 gig memory stick won't hold more than 1 or 2 movies either.