Is my PSP worth money?

The PSP is one of the most wanted retro handhelds: it plays its games on small UMD discs, and many people buy one again for those games. Five models exist; the battery and the screen decide most of the price.

Which PSP do you have?

Model	Years	How to tell
PSP-1000	2005 in North America	The thickest and heaviest; the only one with an infrared port.
PSP-2000 (Slim and Lite)	2007	Lighter and slimmer; adds video out to a TV.
PSP-3000	2008	Brighter screen; looks like the 2000.
PSP Go (PSP-N1000)	2009	Small, with a sliding screen and 16 GB inside; no UMD drive.
PSP Street (PSP-E1000)	2011	Sold in Europe and other PAL countries only.

The model number (PSP-1000, 2000, 3000, N1000 or E1000 series) is on the label of the console. Without it: an infrared port means a 1000; no UMD door means a PSP Go.

What adds value

Tick what applies to yours:

Tested with a game running, and a battery that holds a charge.
A clean screen without scratches or dead pixels; the 3000 is the brightest.
The charger, a memory card, and the box; limited colors and game bundles stand out.

Red flags

A battery that is swollen or bulging under the back cover: never charge it.
"UMD door broken" or "won't read UMD": the drive is the part that wears first.
Sold "as is" without a battery: it may simply not power on.

Good to know about the PSP

Weight tells the first models apart: about 280 g for a PSP-1000, 189 g for a 2000 or 3000, and 158 g for a PSP Go.
The PSP Go keeps its games on 16 GB of memory inside: it has no UMD drive, so it cannot play the discs.
On a PSP-3000, faint lines can show on the screen up close: that comes from the panel's design, not a defect.
The PSP Street (E1000) was sold only in Europe and other PAL countries.
Games come on UMD discs, about 6 cm wide and holding up to 1.8 GB. Films were sold on UMD too (UMD Video).
Saved games and downloads go on a Memory Stick PRO Duo on the PSP-1000, 2000 and 3000: check that one is included.
More than 80 million PSPs were sold. Sales ended in North America in January 2014 and in Japan in June 2014, so every PSP on sale now is used.

Live listings on eBay

A few PSP consoles listed now, United States, from $30. Asking prices, not sold prices: the price a console actually sells for can be lower.

PSP (PlayStation Portable) is a product name of Sony. We are not affiliated with Sony, and we do not appraise anything.

Sources: Wikipedia, PlayStation Portable and Universal Media Disc; ConsoleMods, PSP Model Differences; Sony Computer Entertainment, PSP product specifications (press release, May 11, 2004); SlashGear, Sony PSP finally retiring; all read October 15, 2026. Each fact here is on at least two of them.