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Sony Displays New PSP, Polished Games At E3
Sony had a lot to prove coming into this event, and kicked off on a high note. The PlayStation 2 is still selling units, and the PSP's numbers are apparently up as well. They followed that with the news of a new version of the PlayStation Portable. It's slimmer, lighter, has a longer battery life, and the ability to connect directly to your television to display video and games. There was a good deal of discussion about upcoming PSP titles, some of which are connected to a PSP bundle. Pushing out the PS3, they show several PlayStation Store titles, included the fascinating-looking Echochrome . Moving onto the Home service they discussed cellphone and website tie-ins to the Home service, as well as the ability to launch games from directly within the Home environment. Referencing the price cut, they reveal sales have already gone up. NCSoft, Epic, and Ubisoft are all referenced as heavy backers of the PlayStation, with a tantalizing statement suggesting that user-created mods for Unreal Tournament will be coming to the console via the Playstation Network. A lengthy Metal Gear Solid 4 trailer and a statement that the game is only for the PS3 (still to be determined), due early in 2008, cap off the third-party section. First-party titles show all of the highlights of Sony's portfolio with the LittleBigPlanet trailer emphasizing creation rather than play, and their Heavenly Sword highlight showcasing the game's story for the first time. A new sandbox title with a morality component was announced, InFamous, as was a new chapter in the Gran Turismo series. The press conference wrapped with a gripping trailer for Killzone 2, completely running in real-time.
Well Harrison did demo that Echo Chrome thing which looks similar in concept - rotating Escher-esque views around to cover holes and so on.
I hope it's running in real real-time and not just real time like the previous trailer at last year's E3. Because as real as time was at the time, the demo wasn't very real, just based on what they believed would be real.. at the time.
Everything I've seen has been FMV trailers, and though they DO look great... So did the FMV in Final Fantasy VII...
Of the 3 presentations it was by far the most interesting.
Engadget has the photos. It doesn't look that much thinner to me.
What the hell are you talking about?? Sony talked about PS2 for two minutes or so, then PSP for about fifteen minutes, then Home / PSN for fifteen minutes, followed by PS3 for about an hour. They saved the best for last.
I was extremely disappointed that the hot chicks from the square never came over to have the turkey burgers.
And I'm pissed that I can only play Zelda on Nintendo products and Halo on Microsoft products...
...as long as you're interested in FPSs, FPSs, and more FPSs (with some racing!)
Will it blend?
1984 was not supposed to be an instruction manual.
I don't think you seem to be watching the same thing the rest of us have. KZ2 is on par with GoW. Halo 3 has seen a graphics bump since beta. And FYI, gameplay makes or breaks a game, not graphics.
I think you misposted -- you should be at http://blog.us.playstation.com/
I think that this year's E3 was exactly what Sony needed last year. Overall I think they showed off plenty of eye candy and a few exclusives that should help to drive sales in the coming months. The only problem is that many of these key games (MGS4 in particular) won't be coming until after the holiday season. A lot of the media and public opinion is that Sony is failing and a big holiday season for them would help to dispell some of those doubts.
What I liked most about their conference is that they focused on showcasing the games coming out on their system instead of talking about sales figures and statistics (After watching the first fifteen minutes of the Nintendo conference, I was about ready for a nap). I suppose most of that stems from not having a lot of good news on that front. I don't mind a little bit of business, but I'm really more interested in seeing the games.
Depending on how things turn out over the next few months and other games that Sony manages to add to the PS3, I might almost consider buying one now that they've dropped the price a little bit. Hopefully I'll get to learn a little more about some of the games being released before the holidays to see if it's worth purchasing one of them. It also seems as though they've done a lot to revitalize the PSP, which is also a lot more appealing.
Overall I think that they should've given me a more compelling reason to puchase one of these during the holiday season or right now, but I think with the recent price drop and some of the good news from E3 that sales should pick up a little in the following weeks. If nothing else at least Sony has managed to pull its head out of its ass and get back on the right track. They still might end up like Nintendo during the GameCube era where they didn't receive a lot of support. They've still got a lot of leg work to prove to the rest of the world that they're a major contender.
The bundle with the PSP doesn't contain any UMD movies; it comes with the Family Guy Freakin' Sweet Collection, which is just five episodes (mind you, the best five episodes of the first three seasons.) It also comes with Daxter and a 1 GB memory stick.
The most exciting announcement about the entire conference for me was the new PSP's TV-out feature. I was disappointed that it didn't have TV-out on release several years ago, and I am very excited about it now. It's finally like a portable console, and the portability is finally a reason to actually buy UMD content. It's one of the things that is making me consider getting one someday, and the $199 bundle does seem like a great deal.
Also, Echochrome looks totally awesome. If I don't play that game soon, I think I might die.
Because world != you. That is all.
Somebody must have bought some Sony stock.... 'investorelite' indeed.
*Sigh* The astroturf is getting mighty tall these days.
Did anyone else notice that everything that looked amazing had 2008 attached to it? And everything that looked with par with the 360 had 2007 attached to it?
I mean its great they finally showed off some potential but slapping 2008 on it all doesn't give me much confidence to go out and buy the console today or even this holiday season.
I'm not trolling or anything, just curious. I have two UMD movies: Spider-man 2, came with my PSP, and Blade was a gift. I love both movies and have them on DVD where I've watched them many times.
I have tried to watch them on my PSP. Never got more than a half-hour into either before I shut it down.
Has anyone ever managed to watch an entire movie on a PSP?
Maybe I'm watching the wrong type of movie for that small screen.
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If you have a PS3 this is great news well except for that nasty price drop. Ouch.
Last I heard MGS may not be exclusive to the PS3.
Until the games are on the market it is all just hype.
It is still an improvement for Sony.
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Actually I think it's a great idea, however the link in the parent article does say how they do it. The linked Article says:
"It will also come with the ability to output high-quality video by pressing the display button. This means that movies, games, photos, and all other PSP applications can be output to a TV screen."
So does this mean there are TV out ports (or a proprietary connector) to the PSP that connects to a TV VIA Composite, component, S-Video... or does it stream content to a PS3 and play on the screen?
I think it gives them some credibility when they talk about their ten year product cycle for the PS3. If the PS2 is still receiving new games and versions of games that aren't showing up on the previous generation consoles of their competitors they can point to this and how they stand behind their product. The fact that the PS2 is outselling all other consoles short of the Wii and still has content being developed for it is amazing considering that we're over a year into the next generation.
I think you're just muck racking and naysaying, trying to proclaim the death of Sony when you don't have anything of real substance. If you want to suggest that Sony is failing at least offer something more than a shot at the success and continued viability of the PS2 as a platform.
I occasionally watch downloaded videos on my PSP when I'm on an airplane. I'm not thrilled about UMD movies, but I sure would have bought a UMD movie + PSP game + 1GB memory stick + a PSP for $200 instead of buying just a PSP for $170.
Obviously watching a movie on your PSP won't be as great as watching at home. I think Sony needs to cut the price of their UMD movies a bit to reflect this.
I didn't get the special Sony rootkit software they were offering, but I've had plenty of problems with their products and support (.. if it's still under warranty, why do I have to pay for repairs?)
I also have no plans to give Sony any money either, what's the opposite of a Sony fanboy?
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I always said that if they added a tv out i would probably pick one up, the 5g ipod had tv out and was released at the same time. The only argument against a tv out was that it might impact ps2 sales (since a lot of psp games are ps2 ports) but if you have a tv out the psp becomes a fairly high spec portable media machine, thats how most people will use it I think.
Personaly I did not think KZ2 was on par with GoW, but that might just be me, GOW is hard to beat.
Does the new PSP still use the orwellian-named Universal Media Disc", that is compatible with nothing but the original PSP? The UMD for which there is no way for anyone but Sony to burn a disc? Or maybe they've got a miniBlu-Ray, which would be a lot cooler.
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I can hear the 360 brigade and MS fan boys warming up on this thread. whooosh.
I have a PS3, I got it on day one, I love it, Resistance is a fabulous game.
Yes there are not as many games, yes it costs more - but for fucks sake it's a blu-ray player! not some piddly DVD player. At the time I got the PS3 I could not get a blu-ray player for that money. I like the machine, the geek in me admires the Cell technology. And I feel that strongly that Sony are getting a rough ride from a bunch a script kiddies and annoying teenagers. There I said it.
Sony are trying to run a business, not gain a foothold with massive loss making subsidies and oppressive leverage. I'm not saying that what MS is doing is wrong after all they are trying to run a business - but that does not mean I admire them for their business tactics.
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Having said that, in a few months I'll be getting a 360 for Halo 3, which looks to be a fabulous game!
Sales are up after a price drop!
So. The real question is this: How much higher will they be a month or so AFTER the price drop?
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Title says all, unless you don't know what operator != means.
Have you ever actually watched a movie on your PSP?
I've watched hundred of hours of movies and TV shows on my PSP.
Air travel + PSP + movies (on a memory stick) = Heaven.
No need for a laptop in your carryon means you can "sail" through security. The instant on/off is wonderful as well. You can use it while actually standing in line. One 4Gig stick will hold an entire season of a television show plus a movie or two.
You get good battery life (a little under three hours) because it's not hitting the UMD, but for longer flights you can get: a USB battery box and a USB charging cable. It will suck down batteries (but this setup allows the brightest screen mode) but work like a charm. I went through 16 AA's on a 24 hour flight once.
Oh yeah, I also rest it on the treadmill in front of me while running. I've lost 10 pounds when I never had the patience before. No physical media = no skipping.
I just kick myself for waiting a year to get one. It is by far the best video player available and Sony has marketed it INCREDIBLY poorly.
Never played a UMD though. Those are a waste of money IMO.
The thing that excites me as a gamer, is that Sony seems to have embraced the idea of user generated content - from the ability to use user created levels in UT, to being able to create an share user generated levels in Little Big Planet, basically a cushy physics simulator.
In the link that led to talking about user generated content being less certain on the 360, that's because it would have to go through Live and Microsoft still has not worked out what they want to do there. They may yet also allow substantial user content, they just haven't done so to date with the fervor Sony has.
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Yes, they had a good show. But keep your frickin' pants on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-exK-gV7yaE oh my. oh my.
.. And I thought Resistance looked good. Dribble.
Since when does Sega make the PSP?
This is just retarded, who is modding this guy flamebait and troll? Talk about abusing your mod points >_>;
Bash Sony = Mod Up
Praise Wii = Mod Up
Baseless comments are getting too much attention. People need to stick to the moderator guidelines or stop modding up groupthink style.
You constantly struggle for self improvement - and it shows.
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"Yeah, poverty sucks. Sorry to hear you're too fucking poor to own the most powerful console. I just drank 100 dollars worth of booze last night. Sorry, clown, I'm not laying awake at night that a console got a price drop."
You sad, sad little person... I can't help it if you wish to flush money down the tubes. I am sure some PS3 user is not all that happy about Sony saying that there would be no price drop and then hello...
As far as your bragging about that $100 worth of booze. I am really happy for you. You know people that have real money don't go around trying to impress anybody.
And as far as fanboy goes...
Have a nice day.
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From reading the announcement it LOOKS like the answer is TV out, unless there is an extra PS3 he's not mentioning:
11:49AM PDT - "You can control what you're seeing, I'll pause it, get rid of the menu, etc. If you want the video back on your PSP, push the display button again and it's back on your PSP. You can play games, videos, show photos, all of that on a tv screen or your PSP. With DLNA, you can also access the files on your PC at home via your PSP. This sparks the imagination, and encourages developers and players alike to think beyond the norm." We envision a bizarre future world where we stream computer video to the PS3 to the PSP over RemotePlay and then video output to a friend's HDTV. Sure, we'll only use this feature once
I Wonder, why is NCsoft a "heavy backer" for the PS3? So far they've mostly released MMORPGs for the PC...
XBox is made by Sony or Nintendo? News to me.
And in other news, several Nintendo DS games will not be available for other game systems.
I must admit, when I saw the CGI trailer last year I was very skeptical about whether or not they could get anywhere near it.
It's very rare that I'll watch a trailer for something with my mouth half open. The Transformers trailer and the Killzone 2 trailer had this effect on me.
I think I've watched it 5 times now and I still don't believe it's realtime, even though it is*
*it is realtime, isn't it?
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Chuckle. Nice editing.
It's a different meaning of "universal". It's not "universal" as in "every device ever made will read and write it", but "universal" as in "we can store games _and_ movies on it and god knows what other digital stuff we'll think about later."
Not saying you should necessarily get one, just clarifying why the name.
And, no, there's nothing Orwellian about it. Some words simply have more than one meaning, surprising as that may seem. Same, if you will, as F/OSS fans will write all over the place about the difference between "free as in beer" and "free as in speech". That's another word whose meanings aren't even vaguely related to each other.
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Sony impressed me and also failed to impress me.
PS3: Impressive. I'm glad to see they're able to showcase a lot of high class games as well as a number that are reaching out to a broader crowd. Things may take off for this system yet, though I doubt its possible for it to gain enough momentum to dominate this generation. It would at least break previous precidents if it did.
PSP: Unimpressive. I feel like Sony is trying to copy the DS Lite without understanding why the DS Lite did well. The DS Phat's key dimensional problem was its depth. There were a number of pockets incapable of holding one, and to boot it was relatively heavy. The DS Lite improved on all of these, while looking simultaneously much sleeker. The new PSP is hard to distinguish from its predecessor, which was sleek to begin with. I'll be very surprised is this causes any long-term changes in PSP sales.
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"But because it's Sony, he's modded down and called an astroturfer."
Look at his post history. Nothing but repackaged Sony press releases.
I know I'm nitpicking, but memory sticks are physical media...I think you meant to say no moving parts = no skipping. Just couldn't resist. You made some good points though.
Recently, I've found that the real value of the PSP is in its non-UMD power.... namely, being able to emulate the NES, the Playstation and everything inbetween :P
The movie thing is cool too, I guess... but emulating actually good games makes up for the lack of such titles in UMD format.
Tell me something...it's still "We, the people"... right?
The first and more important fact is that the hardware is powerful enough on both the 360 and the PS3 that you can get more payback for good artistic direction and heavy technical investment than ever before. The 360 and the PS3 will both respond very nicely to extravagantly expensive development budgets, and the skill of the developers and artists working on the average game will probably make much more difference in the quality of the results than any differences between the hardware will.
That said, and while the 360's graphics chip is probably superior to the PS3's, the PS3 was designed to have the Cell and RSX working together in a very close fashion. Killzone 2 is being developed with a deferred renderer, in which the Cell can overlay lighting calculations on top of the rendered polygons, rather than having all of that be always done with the RSX. Lair is using the Cell to do dynamic winnowing down of the in-game geometry to present only the essential data to RSX, while continuing to animate everything with high fidelity. Uncharted: Drake's Fortune is using Cell to do very ambitious dynamic animation blending on the main characters.
Between Cell and RSX, you can do awful lot on PS3, but you have to develop the games for it, and the kind of distributed programming required to harness 8 distributed processing cores (1 PPU, 6 SPU, 1 RSX) takes a lot of time and money to do, and straightforward ports from 360-style DirectX games won't necessarily show what the PS3 can really do to best advantage.
The PS3 has another advantage with the Blu-Ray disc, as it has over 5 times more on-disc storage than the 360 has (though at the cost of a reduced maximum transfer speed). That can help allow for more extravagant level budgets, especially in titles that support streaming audio and graphics loading.
The bottom line is, we've not begun to see the best of what either the 360 or the PS3 will be capable of. The good news is that Sony is making a big enough push that they might get enough purchasers of their console that the budgets will have a chance to continue to be there to make these amazing games.
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It's quite easy to find ready for PSP content out there (or for other devices that can play H.264/MPEG$, but why on earth do they still use xvid rather than superior H.264. Inertia? Stubbornness?
It's a good start. Still not enough for a $499 (minimum) system.
Because Slashdot isn't written for you personally. Rather it's for a whole lot of people in addition to you. And they don't all have precisely the same opinions as you. Nor are they obligated to choose as you have.
Some people besides you won't let one incident in the past, an incident that maybe didn't even affect them directly, decide their entire future from that day forward. Perhaps you want every single one of the hundreds of thousands of people who work for Sony (and Sony-BMG and presumably Sony-Ericsson) to lose their jobs for one bad decision of a few record company losers. But not everyone does.
That anyone could mod that insightful or even take that seriously is sad.
1. 3 hours is enough for flights 1/2 way across the country (you can't have it on every single second.) I gave a very cheap way to extend battery life (because I'm a cheap ass) but for the price of a laptop I could purchase 2 additional proprietary batteries for 9 hours of battery life and still be at a third the price of a laptop.
2. You ignored the fact that I take it on a treadmill everyday. I also take it with me around town when I have to wait at the Doctors and the like. I would personally not want to take a laptop with me to either place.
3. People complain about it being too big as it is. The screen is the size it's at. That doesn't stop people from enjoying the PSP or the DS for hours at a time.
They still haven't shown me any games that compel me to purchase one. There's a bunch of "well that looks cool, if I owned a PS3" but nothing to motivate me to go out and spend $500+tax on one. Maybe, like the 360, one of my roommates will be compelled to pick one up. Even Metal Gear I can wait on the system hitting $300 and the game going budget/cross platform for.
I will own a PS3 eventually(only console of a generation I *haven't* owned is an original XBox), and I plan on picking up the titles that fit that criteria as I see them, but... meh.
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Sure the big hitters (and PS3 exclusives) MGS4 and Killzone2 are 2008, but there are big hitters were not shown, that will be the bread and butter until then.
Unreal Tournement (PS3 timed Exclusive till late 2008)
Haze (PS3 exclusive)
Ratchet And Clank Tools Of Destruction(PS3 exclusive)
Warhawk(PS3 exclusive)
Drakes Fortune(PS3 exclusive)
Lair(PS3 exclusive)
GT5 Prologue(PS3 exclusive)
In addition, you have GTA IV to keep you happy until then..
I'm sure there are plenty more that I forgot, either way, that list is releases between now and Xmas..
Yeah, I'm not. Since those incidents, I've tried to avoid giving any money whatsoever to Sony as much as possible. Why are you so willing to buy from them? Do those trespasses committed by Sony mean nothing to you?
I keep a spare PSP battery for long flights.
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No, no, you've got it all wrong! It's: Praise Sony = Mod Down Bash Wii = Mod Down
Sony has designs on making money, and consumers sure as hell aren't stupid enough to buy the same machine with no compatibility with all the games already out for the platform. Presumably anyone capable of working a keyboard ought to be able to apprehend these blindingly obvious concepts, but apparently not.
That it's not integrated into an online store from Sony like iTunes? This isn't my problem actually... I get the content anyway... it's Sony's problem.
I like my PSP... but getting content onto is not simple. I wouldn't recommend it to my mother which I would love to do.
Why are you so willing to buy from them? Do those trespasses committed by Sony mean nothing to you?
Nintendo sued Camerica over the Game Genie because they didn't want people "cheating" at their own games that they purchased. They lost.
They then sued Tengen (aka Atari) for producing "unlicensed" games - they lost that one too, but because of the expense of going to court over it, we now have required royalties and hardware lock-ins for all third party publishers. The DMCA now makes it a crime to circumvent those technological protections.
Nintendo only recently sued Bung Electronics for copyright violations on products that probably fell under fair use provisions of copyright law and were most certainly reverse-engineered.
In the late 1980's, Atari sued Nintendo for anti-trust violations. Atari won, and Nintendo was convicted of violating anti-trust laws.
As for Microsoft, well, we all know they're a convicted monopolist that also happens to be financing (through a third party) SCO's lawsuit against various Linux entities.
So my guess is you vote with your conscience and don't buy from any of these companies?
The point of the Blu-Ray included in the PS3 isn't so much for the movies (though that's good, too)-- it's about game content. Today's games often fill up a DVD, and now that HD games are coming out, the Blu-Ray disc allows for better textures, larger game levels, and just all-around more content.
PS3 games will be able to take advantage of greater capacity discs, a hard drive for streaming textures (making game levels bigger and better), and so on.
The fact it'll play Blu-Ray movies is almost secondary.
Microsoft is to software what Budweiser is to beer.
...and the small ass screen you have to watch it on...
After many years of flying, I have come to realize that a small screen is actually better than a laptop screen.
* How easy is it to use your laptop screen in cramped seating when the front seat goes back?
* How annoying is it to the people sitting next to you, to have a giant glowing screen?
* When you get where you are going, you have to worry about leaving your laptop behind in the hotel room.
I still take my laptop on flights but I don't usually get it out anymore. I just bought an iPhone, and frankly I think that screen size and resolution will be about perfect - but from accounts the PSP probably is also a perfect form factor for airline movie watching as well.
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It's just you.
The PS2 continues to sell extremely well and continues to be a major revenue driver.
You don't really want to have the most GFLOPS/polygons/texels per second videogame. What you want is to have the most profitable one.
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I would like to add:
"after all, this is not Digg."
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Try Super Paper Mario on the Wii.
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Why did you type so much just to ask that question?
Paper mario was a platformer that tried to play like an RPG, but was too chatty to be one and too lacking in options to be the other. Toss in the boring 3d landscapes that seemed like an afterthought, and secondary characters, items, etc, that never really get used and well, it falls flat. I should know, I own it.
Oh yeah? Well I can't wait to get an XBox 1 this year. There are so many awesome things happening for the young system.
Every time I start to have faith in humanity, I ruin it by driving to work between 7 and 8 am.
Waaait a sec! Nobody said anything about having to wear pants!
Every time I start to have faith in humanity, I ruin it by driving to work between 7 and 8 am.
You mean your not the guy living down by the barber shop?
Every time I start to have faith in humanity, I ruin it by driving to work between 7 and 8 am.
Sometimes I wish that posts could get so many mod points that they go above 5...
Every time I start to have faith in humanity, I ruin it by driving to work between 7 and 8 am.
I think it gives them some credibility when they talk about their ten year product cycle for the PS3. If the PS2 is still receiving new games and versions of games that aren't showing up on the previous generation consoles of their competitors they can point to this and how they stand behind their product. The fact that the PS2 is outselling all other consoles short of the Wii and still has content being developed for it is amazing considering that we're over a year into the next generation.
The reason for new games on PS2 are the same reason it's taking so long to find any good games on PS3: ubiquity.
Since PS3 isn't selling half as well right now I wouldn't extrapolate your findings to PS3 just yet. Of course I'd rather give them some 1-2 years more to develop their market, but I still believe PS3 will stand behind XBOX and Wii in sheer number of consoles sold.
You see, developers may have some preference regarding consoles that are more powerful, or easier to program for, but their bosses don't. Their bosses care: if I make game for console X, what's my potential market.
I could go in my garage and built the bestestest console ever in the world with 50 cores, 64 gig RAM and make it cost $10. If no one else has it, everything else is irrelevant, EA won't port games for my console.
Baseless comments are getting too much attention. People need to stick to the moderator guidelines or stop modding up groupthink style.
I hope you realize the irony of the situation... You were modded up since it's now part of the groupthink to mod up groupthink criticism.
Microsoft's extremism in console security trumps any such wish for user-generated content. Microsoft knows that if user-generated content is allowed, it won't be long before someone finds a bug in a game and exploits it to run Linux. After all, this happened repeatedly on Xbox, and on 360's King Kong, even without true user-generated content.
Sony doesn't really have this problem. The system is already hacked, and it ran Linux to begin with. They couldn't keep up with such exploits on PSP.
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PSP graphics are impressive on a small screen, but will it look good on a TV? I suspect that it wouldn't, but I don't know what Sony is planning here. I seem to recall the Game Boy Advance games looking good on TV's (via Game Boy Player), though all I've seen of that are Internet videos. Does anyone have more info?
The main problem I had was while the graphics really were amazing, there was almost no game I even was mildly interested in. I counted 10-11 shooter 9 of them first person 2 third person, 2 wannabe rpgs which in fact were just third person fighters. Ratched and Clank was interesting though, MGS4 also (because I have not played the other parts) and then the most interesting thing was the puzzle game with the 80s style vector only graphics. Anyway Sony did it right this year, while Nintendo was somewhat of a letdown. But the sony lineup definitely is not a reason to shell out 900USD (that is the price in Europe) for a PS3!!! For that price I can get a decent gaming PC!
"Baseless comments are getting too much attention. People need to stick to the moderator guidelines or stop modding up groupthink style."
If this were any other topic, I'd wholeheartedly agree. However, what makes this case interesting is Sony themselves have poo-poo'd the competition in similar fashion, and now their potential customers are following their example. I really don't care for the sheople moderation Slashdot is known for, but hopefully one day Sony will wake up and see that the bad PR they have is of their own doing. Once they sort that out, maybe we'll actually see innovation from their camp.
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Looks like Crush might also come out on the Wii and the DS. The developers are currently considering it, although there's no official announcement yet. It's a great game, btw.
I guess you're right.
Oh my god, it's the ps triple guy, on Slashdot!
But with PSP and home-brew firmware you can play Nintendo NES, SNES, Gameboy, Gameboy Advance games plus Sega games in-fact any emulator games as well as AVI and MP4 movie files and if you get sick of that you can also play PSP games as well. Soon you will be able to play PS1 games via legitimate (a few dollars per game) download or by ripping your PS1 disk (not sure about this one though look at the home-brew sites).
I have even seen MP4 movies ripped and scaled to the PSP having Genuine Sony firmware and played via the PS3 to a HDTV via HDMI and it actually gets upscaled to the size of the HDTV although the output was not quite as good as an upscaled DVD but it was still very watchable. I am not sure how useful this would be (possibly TV episodes) but it was interesting.
There ain't no such thing as proprietary standards only proprietary formats. Standards are by definition open.
Sony, please. This is getting ridiculous. How about making the PS3 another 100 bucks cheaper instead of paying people to post crap like this to /.? :-)
Yeah but announcing Wii Fit at the E3 was probably not the best move. Only regular gamers follow E3 coverage while Wii Fit seems geared at the audiences that wouldn't even know what E3 is.
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
If you would like to compare the next gen game machines relative to each other look at the following: http://vgchartz.com/hwcomps.php?cons1=X360®1=Al l&cons2=PS3®2=All&cons3=Wii®3=All&align=1. In case you are not interested the PS3 and Xbox360 actually match up in sales while the Nintendo Wii is 2.5 times higher.
Looks like the Wii is killing the market but I would be very interested in how does this translate to game sales after all if you sell a lot of consoles then providing you make a profit and Nintendo does then this is good for the console manufacturer. What really makes profits for the console manufacturer are games, merchandising and add-ons and plenty of sales, however most games successes have been in the order of only a few million. With regard to the casual gamer who seem to be the predominate ones who purchase the Wii are they people who only pay for a few party games or do they eventually convert to a more dedicated gamer? The PS3 and Xbox360 gamers are more dedicated and will most likely purchase a variety of games. For most game producers this knowledge is absolutely vital if they are to profit from their games if not then they will not produce games for a console they can not make a profit on their game sales.
There ain't no such thing as proprietary standards only proprietary formats. Standards are by definition open.
I pretty much agree with your assessment of the PSP as a video machine. The screen is beautiful (though I do get frustrated at my dead pixels from time to time). You can pickup a proprietary Sony memory card for pretty cheep these days.
I actually used my PSP as an MP3 and movie player more than a game player and it sounds like you're doing the same. The gym was my main use. I never saw Star Trek DS9 so I ripped the episodes to my PSP and watched an episode while at the gym. That's a good 45min workout.
I did buy "Ghostbusters" and I was given "Without a Paddle" UMD movies. The movies where nice. good quality, lacking in features that the normal DVD's had, but at least they had sub-titles. I wouldn't buy any more UMD's though. Far to expensive.
Anyway, the point is still, the PSP is still lacking in the gaming department, but it's a great mobile video machine. Oh, and I own a 2nd battery as I fly to France from Chicago from time to time (8 hour flight).
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Xbox Media Center of course!
http://www.xboxmediacenter.com/
Reviewing just the first hour of video games.
Actually yes. Heading off on holiday, I threw plenty of movies on a 4GB memory stick. Watched a couple on the flight out and then deleted them from the memory stick which was being shared with my camera. Only managed to save space for 1 film on the way back though. I wouldn't go out and buy a PSP for this purpose - won it in a raffle :) - but it did a decent job even so. Better quality screen than you get on any cheap planes, and your choice of film.
As the owner of an original PSP, here's my take on what I've heard.
1. TV-OUT... Horray. I agree with the parent.. this is something that should have been on the original PSP. My hope was at time went on they'd add it as a feature in a firmware upgrade and then sell a do-hickey that would connect to the USB. The lack of a TV-OUT was also my reason for shrugging at UMD movies... for the same reason. I'd rather watch them on a big screen.
2. Games... This makes me very happy. With that said, people are always pissing and moaning about the lack of games for the PSP, which I think is a bit unfounded. Everytime I get near a GameStop/EB/Target I see at least 10 games that I go "oh... when I'm doing playing this game, I'll buy that one".
3. 30% lighter... It was never heavy anyway... plus now all the accessories (like PSP cases) aren't going to fit it.
4. Faster Game loading... Horray! If the PSP has a short coming, it's that. Those of you out there playing "Untold Legends: Brotherhood of th e Blade" know what I'm talking about!
5. Longer battery life... Also a Horray, but not that much. I'm still using the original battery and I'm getting 4+ hours of game play per charge. However I do follow good battery use practices...
Now... [steps onto soapbox] Sony needs to release an SDK that's affordable to the homebrew people (like me) and create a place were people can legitimately upload their creations.
Yes Francis, the world has gone crazy.
E3 isn't for hardcore gamers or even casual gamers. It's for industry people. Retailers want to know what will be hot so they can know what to order. Wii Fit was unveiled to continue generating interest in the system and games with retailers and industry, not so that gamers will drool over the system.
I think it's also important to note how well the PS3 handles PS2 games now with the latest firmware. They look great on a modern 1080p HDTV, considering they are at such a lower resolution. I think the upscaled PS2 content on the PS3 looks better than the Wii.
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For the same reason you typed so much to ask your question I would assume.
Every time I start to have faith in humanity, I ruin it by driving to work between 7 and 8 am.
> getting content onto is not simple. I wouldn't recommend it to my mother which I would love to do.
I'd love to do your mother too (sorry, the joke was just too easy (like your mother; again, sorry))...
But seriously, what is it that makes it hard to get content onto it. Can't you just plug it into a USB port and have a new drive letter? Or do you have to use their own custom software, like the iPod (which is the single thing I dislike about the iPod)? I've never used a PSP and have only seen one once, so I don't know much about them.
Right... Que the "you must be new here" brigade.
This sig isn't original enough, it's time to come up with something witty...
Yes, you have demonstrated that in spades.
They covered Wii Fit at the very end of their conference so it would make the mainstream media and spur the major retailers into pushing it.
The entire conference up to that point was all about the regular gamers. Nintendo confirmed and dated three major releases (Metroid, Mario Galaxies, and Super Smash Brothers Brawl) for this year, and announced that a fourth would be out early next year. That's the big news for gamers.
Technically, the very first Metal Gear was released on the MSX, which was a Microsoft-directed PC standard (sort of a predecessor to the 3D0).
BTW, the "which" in the original sentence negates you're joke. If I'd used "that" or "whom" you'd be in business.
I bought my PSP just for this purpose and use it almost everyday on my bus ride commute. I still marvel at the gorgeousness of the screen and Sony's smoothing algorithms are *fantastic*. I encode to 368x208 using ffmpeg/h264 (I think the newer firmwares allow full screen resolution) and it's a dream to watch. I watch a lot of subtitled content, too, and reading the text is never a problem.
Funny, I'm really enjoying it.
Then again, I like long adventure games. I wished Twilight Princess had been a bit bigger and a bit longer.
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True, but the PSP screen is lower rez. That combined with the fact that memory stick movies can't be played at native resolution so you're picture is even less rez than what it's capable of. Sharpness means I can stuff more movie in a smaller space and enjoy it just as much. Plus the smaller screen of the iPhone is always with me - whereas the PSP is "occasionally" with me.
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apparently not all is as i seems! *cue dramatic music*
You constantly struggle for self improvement - and it shows.
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After all the MPAA has done, you still buy movies! I'm shocked that you haven't boycotted the whole bunch.
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This is a short-sighted view. It's going to take developers several years to learn to tap into the quirks of RSX and power of Cell in the PS3, probably more so than the 360 which has more conventional architecture and components. I doubt Insomniac made much, if anything, on Resistance but they've learned a lot about the PS3 and are banking on the PS3 being a long-term profitable platform.
Now three-to-four years down the line, the PS3 booms and those developers who overlooked the PS3 in favor of the [then] better-selling Wii and 360, step into the PS3 development, they may well be one or even two generations of software development behind those who got in on the ground floor and find it hard to compete.
Of course this may not happen, but this is the gamble that early-adopter developers like Insomniac (Resistance) and Ninja Theory (Heavenly Sword) have taken on the PS3. Both are third-party, neither are bankrolled by Sony but both obviously trust that Sony will pull off the hat trick and make the PS3 a viable, profitable platform longterm. The 360 may look safer but Redmond have still to turn a profit and they dumped the Xbox after a mere four years. Microsoft are habitual platform/project/partner droppers when things don't work out or fit in their business plans.
Just wanted to say that you might just need a new PSP battery. I use my PSP similar to you media wise. On every trip to New York (I live in California) I have had no problems with it dying in the middle of the flight. One charge and I'm good from take off to touchdown, generally leading to roughly 5.5 hours of play time. Or maybe it's just the different way we are encoding video, but you can get really good battery life out of the PSP.
> BTW, the "which" in the original sentence negates you're joke
:)
Hey, I'm allowed to stretch a joke through grammatical misassumptions
Have you seen "This Film Is Not Yet Rated"? Great film.
I think UT for the PS3 only allows you to play PC created mods, not create them on the PS3.
But the PS3 title Little Big Planet has a whole object and level creation component, that you obviously store on the HD (which all PS3 models have) and then can transfer up to the PSN network to share with others. At least, that is what they have said in interviews on the matter. They had a lengthy demo of the creation tools at this years E3.
You can also import any pictures or even video you like to use in the levels you create (so you would edit those components on a PC first, or directly import them from a camera). Since the PS3 has a kind of media import extender, and supports standard USB external storage, it's pretty easy to get stuff into or out of the system.
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OK, assume that I've no clue--not a great stretch for you, right? In the last couple of presidential elections, there was at least some assumption that the youth vote would turn out, and stake out a firm position. Didn't happen. Much railing against Bush on /. but no turnout, from a historical perspective.
/. ID, after all.
In the end, the youth vote simply didn't count, either for or against. Sorry, but I stand by my opinion. Slashdotters (I'm thinking of Slashdotters as a relatively youthful population, compared to the general populace) are great at spouting off, but they are far less great at actually accepting any hardship, whether that be a boycot, or simply voting.
Predominantly a bunch of lamers in search of whatever they can get for free, no sense of responsibility, and an inflated sense of self-importance. They damned sure make much of an effort to look at the real issues. RTFA is famously too much trouble for these general lamers.
OK, that's more flamebait. At this point, you could repeat your last post, with some justification. I'm cool with that. I mostly lurk here, and just generally observe the human condition. This ID is only the latest in a long string. It's just a
My post wasn't about intellectual arguments. The only people that I have to prove my intellect to are the people that *pay* me to be bright. You don't, so your opinion is irrelevant in that respect. The post was about whether a willingness to take a stand exists within the general Slashdot populace. If history is any guide, vendors of game consoles will win. Sony can do whatever they'd like 'root kit' be damned. Major US news media companies will continue to deliver eyeballs to advertisers, vice information that might be, let's say, *helpful to voters*.
Examples:
a) Terrorism is far less likely to kill you than a bee sting, and we shouldn't sacrifice freedoms for it.
b) Bill Clinton was the guy that approved developing the bunker-buster nuke--a singularly bad idea.
c) The current administration has a horrible track record of distorting science.
OK, mod me down. It's nearly time to ditch this ID anyway, so that's irrelevant as well. But think. Find some better news sources. Perhaps when Iraq 'benchmark' news broke, it would have been better to avoid commentary from the eyeball-delivering spin-meisters here in the US, and get it in tabular form from the BBC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6294694.stm
Oh, wait. That would involve people thinking, weighing importance, and forming conclusions. That would have seriously detracting from the latest Harry Potter, Transformers, Beckham and Posh Spice making their royal entrance in Los Angeles, etc. We all get what the least common denominator deserves.
What you do with a computer does not constitute the whole of computing.