Dear Sony:

Three months ago I wrote to you about my displeasure in the PSP. Well, what a difference a few months make. The holidays were very kind to your little system that couldn’t, with the awesomeness that was Gunpey and the Sega Genesis Collection. Who cares if they didn’t sell, it’s the thought that counts – and my wallet definitely showed its thanks.

What I really wanted to do was write you out of appreciation for one of your stellar employees, Dark-AleX. Here is a guy who is in tune with what PSP owners want, and went through the effort to make sure we were treated to the system’s full potential. It has become the iPod of gaming, in its truest sense. With CDs, I can listen to them at home or rip them to an MP3 player and take them with me wherever I go. Now I can do the same with my catalog of PSOne titles: Play, Rip and Go. How happy am I to be playing Tempest X3 on the can, untethered by UMD loading times and the subsequent battery drain that stinks worse than my defecation session. One 4GB memory card can hold all the PSOne games I could want, compressed for the space-conscious like me, no less.

Remember the GBA I sold to buy a PSP? It now lives again in emulated form. So too do the SNES and Genesis systems sitting in a box somewhere in the Land of Forgotten Toys, otherwise known as my parents’ basement. The PSP is finally the be-all, end-all portable system you’ve been touting for the past two years. And you owe it all to your Employee-of-the-Month, Mr. AleX. I hope this letter helps qualify him for a big bonus, because I’m sure PSPs are again in high demand due to his efforts.

In an ironic twist, I finally pulled the trigger and bought that Nintendo DS I was threatening you with. It was my wife’s favorite system, until she looked over and saw me playing Wheel of Fortune. Take that, Dr. Ryuta Kawashima – Pat Sajak can kick your ass any day!

Thanks again for making my PSP my new favorite handheld again. Make sure Dark_AleX gets that promotion he so deserves.

Sincerely,

A Happy Gamer