Yesterday my girl friend got the final fantasy 7 psp bundle containing the game (final fantasy 7 crisis core) and the limited edition final fantasy psp, a few months ago in japan they done the same thing for the anniversary but the ones in japan are worth a lot more than the bundle that sony are offering for other countries. I plan on selling my original psp soon and was thinking of purchasing a slim and lite one but wasn’t sure if i should so yesterday when her new psp arrived i thought i can get a hands on review of it.

My first impression was definitely the weight difference, if i’m honest then i thought the slim psp felt so “lite” that it made me think that it was a very cheap piece of plastic and it was really disappointing that something like that felt so weak. After putting the battery in there was not a lot of difference either and then placing the UMD disk in still didn’t make much of a difference, it’s a god concept that it’s lighter and slimmer (when i say slimmer i never actually noticed anything different in that) but i think that i shouldn’t be getting the impression that it’s like a cheap rip off copy of the original. The feel of it is better than the original as i feels slightly more “stylish”.

After i started to play the game i did lose the impression of the cheap feeling and really got into playing it and it felt really nice to use and handle, as for the package and the contents i feel as though that sony have really ripped customers off. When you do a firmware update on the psp you need (no choice, you are forced to have one) a memory stick and sony do not supply this at all which can be really annoying if you don’t know this because then you can’t save your games. Another great feature of the psp is that you can charge it through a usb connection (while you have it in usb mode) and i found that great but it’s just too bad that sony doesn’t include a usb cable…

Also there is no protective case in this bundle and no earphones either, these are all things that i got in an original value pack bundle so i am surprised that sony have not included in a limited edition psp bundle. As good as it is i find some things could be improved with the contents and that’s as far as i am going with this review. If you’ve never owned the original psp then yeah go for the slim but if you are a owner of the original then to be honest i’d stick with it. Only reason i am selling mine is because i don’t use it and it’s a victim of the famous psp dead pixels which seemed to have happened to a lot of people.

Thanks for reading anyway.

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