Sony handhelds might be dead, but on its 18th birthday the promise of the PSP is as alive as ever

If you’re old enough to remember when Sony announced that it was getting into the handheld video game system thing, you’ll remember how exciting it was. At that time, in 2003, Sony was at the absolute height of its gaming powers, with the PS2 an absolutely undisputed dominator of the market. The idea that Sony would now encroach on the last corner of the market still held by Nintendo was thrilling. It wasn’t just the capitalist nightmare of all-out corporate warfare for the pockets and bac...