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It was first here in Japan on December 12,in Sony Playstation 3 America on March 24,and in PAL regions on September 1,and is the first handheld installment in the PlayStation line of consoles. As a seventh generation console it competed with the Nintendo DS. Development of the PSP Sony Playstation 3 announced during E3and the console was unveiled at a Sony press conference on May 11, The system was the most powerful portable console when it was introduced, and was the first real competitor of Nintendo's handheld consoles after many challengers, such as Nokia 's N-Gagehad failed.

The PSP also had a vast array of multimedia features such as video playback, and so has been considered a portable media player as well. The PSP was received positively by critics, and sold over 80 million units during its ten-year lifetime.

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Several models of the console were released, before the PSP line was succeeded by the PlayStation Vitareleased in Japan in and worldwide a year later. Hardware shipments of the PSP ended worldwide in ; Sony Playstation 3 of UMDs ended when the Sony Playstation 3 Japanese factory producing them closed in late Sony Computer Entertainment first announced development of the PlayStation Portable at a press conference preceding E3 In the s, Nintendo had dominated the handheld market since launching its Game Boy inexperiencing close competition only from Bandai 's WonderSwan — in Japan and Sega's Game Gear The first concept images of the PSP appeared at a Sony corporate strategy meeting in November Somy, and featured a model with flat buttons and no analog joystick.

The system also enjoyed great success in Sonh areas of the PAL region; over 25, units were pre-ordered in Australia [36] and nearly one million units were sold across Europe in the system's check this out week of sales. The PlayStation Portable uses the common " bar " form factor.

The original model measures approximately 6. The front of the console is dominated by the system's 4.

Also on the unit's front are four PlayStation face buttons,; the directional pad, the analog "nub", and several other buttons. The system also has two shoulder buttons, a USB 2.]