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PSP Go With 16GB Memory and Bluetooth Leaked
Lyonhrt writes "Engadget and Gizmodo have spilled the beans on the news of the new UMD-less PSP Go that comes with 16GB of memory and a slide screen; also among the features will be built-in Bluetooth and an undisclosed memory slot. The console will be sold alongside the PSP-3000, but there are no details on price at this time. This is obviously Sony's answer to the lost battle with the PSP Homebrew and Hacking Communities, which have cost many thousands of lost sales with custom firmwares."
The directional controls on mobile phones are crap compared to a Gameboy. Only touchscreen-based or simple puzzle games work well on a phone.
To run custom PSP firmware, you would in fact need a PSP to run it.... custom firmware only increases sales through increased usability and features.
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This looks like it is Dead On Arrival.
For Sony's sake I would hope that it gets custom firmware very fast.
Without a UMD, how are you supposed to play the games you already purchased? Sony's retard-o-think(tm) and fuck-em-let-em-pay-twice mentality makes me think they are not going to provide a way to migrate your already purchased PSP games to it. You will be forced to rent forever what you had already spent money on to purchase before? Look at all the PS1 titles that you had to buy twice.
I would eat my shorts if Sony released their OWN version of UMD ripper to help facilitate the transfer of customer owned games from a PSP1000/2000/3000 to this new PSP Go.
Considering how unlikely that is, and that most people are not going to purchase a new PSP machine that forces them to re-buy all their games......
Sony is really betting on "Piracy" here. This unit would only seem to be of interest to those that already possess custom firmware and the ability to rip UMD's.
It is intensely strange. Sony is marketing to the people they have hated and battled with for so long.
In any case, if this does get some custom firmware on it I would be somewhat interested it. I would like to get my hands on it, since it seems to have questionable ergonomics. Very interesting device, just don't think it will sell well in the beginning.
I hope that existing users can register their games through PSN. Perhaps a firmware update for the UMD models would allow people to register games online. Alternatively Sony should sell a UMD docking station for the Go and allow syncing that way. The software would have to occasionally re-validate games to prevent people renting / borrowing games but it must be feasible.
It would be very odd if Sony don't offer existing users any migration path
I'm sure they've lost a few, but most pirates are cheap assholes who wouldn't have bought the games had they not been able to pirate them instead. I've been around quite a few pirates, most pirates are cheap bums who don't like they fact they have to buy the player/console and get upset over having to buy the "expensive" blank media needed to pirate. Movies and would prefer to use some other persons bandwidth to do downloading if possible.
On the other hand, the "backup" crowd, such as I'm actually a part of, probably spend more on their devices than the normal kid who has his mommy buy him a few games.
I've got around 15 PSP games, I've got about 5 genuine Magic Gate compliant memory cards ranging from 256 MB to 16GB, I bought my PSP 2000 new off the shelf, and I actually have about 1/2 dozen UMD movies along with some various other accessories. Every PSP game on my memory cards were legally purchased, only one used, the rest were out of the shrink wrap.
Considering the tons of music CD's I have all ripped and on my Iriver and iPhone, I would say there's a lot of hot air where the average consumer was concerned. If Sony wants to go after real pirates they need to focus on Flea Markets and the gas stations/etc.... that sell burned CD's with Xeroxed pictures in the cases, not people who don't want to carry a ton of UMD's. Of course I'll admit 16GB on board with digital distribution is a step in the right direction.
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How on earth does this have anything to do with the PSP hacking? How does this affect that at all, aside from being yet another revision to hack?
The lack of UMD drive is completely irrelevant, bluetooth is irrelevant and having 16GB of onboard flash memory is only going to benefit the hackers if and when they figure out a way to install custom firmware on this.
However, the PSP-3000, right this second CANNOT be hacked or flashed with custom firmware. It's close, recent developments have allowed all PSP-2000s to be temporarily flashed, but as I said this is recent (maybe a couple of weeks? Although the exploit is still only about 3 months old). Sony didn't have to come up with an "answer", they already had one and it took until recently for them to hack it. This summary is useless.
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PSP GO has an analog thumbstick..... It might not be the best, but its there. And yes I totally agree that no dual thumbsticks is dumb as hell in a redesign of this magnitude.
Good-bye
The directional controls on mobile phones are crap compared to a Gameboy.
Yes but the AC has a point. Imagine an android phone with the directional controls done right. Or maybe an ipod touch/iphone if the holy saints from apple design were to allow such sins to happen. Sony seems to be in a tough spot here. The lack of a 2nd analog stick is making the rounds in the early comments over the blogs that leaked it. The memory chip might be a proprietary sony lock-in attempt, yet once again. You may need to rebuy your previously bought games to play here. And of course it must have all functionality of the previous PSPs, including SKYPE.
Memo to these failing phone hardware makers: go for android, include skype, perhaps settle on a "gaming standard" of buttons and controls, and let "hackers" (i.e., someone else to take the blame) provide "nintendo/ps1/ps2/psp/amiga etcetc emulators".
Of course, there may be probably some surprise in store, and I hope Sony has something interesting, even if I'm not planning to get it
Have you any estimated time of arrival for these three?
The only open phone (openmoko) has 2 buttons : power and aux. Not quite enough for a good game experience.
Who said games need to use a joystick and buttons? Three words: Kirby Canvas Curse.
Something that can run nes, snes, sega megadrive, and n64 would certainly cover all I want
But how would you get the publishers of games for "nes, snes, sega megadrive, and n64" to cooperate?
Sure, custom firmware can be used to play pirated PSP games much as how a candle can be used to burn down a house, yet that isn't necessarily mean thats the reason for having a candle burning in a house. There are many applications such as Nintendo emulators
Virtually no games from the NES's commercial era have been released as free software or even freeware. (Exceptions include Elite.) How many people who use custom firmware (PSP) or an R4 card (DS) to run NES emulators do so only to run homebrew NES games?
In most homebrew circles piracy is frowned heavily upon.
Including piracy of the games that run in PocketNES, nesDS, Goomba Color, Lameboy, jEnesis, SNEmulDS, etc.?
True. A handheld gaming console is designed AROUND the controls; it's probably more important than graphics. Most mobile phones would be terrible for playing games, even if they had the equivalent of a PS3 condensed inside.
There's a reason Nintendo dominates the market; they are sticking to the idea that consoles (and handhelds) should be for playing games, and other uses are secondary. There's also a reason that Sony failed miserably this gen, and it closely follows...
If the Pandora sold 1M units it'd be a runaway success. Market share isn't everything you know... :)
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This thing looks like an ergonomic nightmare. The original PSP is already hard to hold for long periods of time, especially if you have to use the analog nub. This sliding screen setup leaves all the controls right at the bottom edge except for the L & R which are still on top. The guy in the image gallery has his thumbs bent in half! WTF Sony?
It may seem that way to an outside observer, after all, the iPhone e.g. is probably better than the DS in all technical aspects.
But for people who really understand the traditional gaming market, there's so many blindingly obvious faults with all devices that we've seen so far, that it's not worth going in to.
One key thing to understand is that what makes consoles successful is a concentrated and standardized market. As long as Apple or other Phone makers show off their technology on contract-exclusive or $600 devices they will fail.
The same way as PCs being good enough didn't make consoles obsolete.
Some of us own lots of games and feel that using an emulator to play them where we want to is a perfectly moral thing to do, whether or not "Fair Use" laws agree.
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Homebrew games cost .005% of sales
retail chain takes 30% of each sale.
No Media means that everyone is buying from the sony store -- 30% more money for sony.
No Media means no more used games -- good for game makers too.
The end of the game store is here. Take a picture of Gamestop next time your there -- it wont be there for long.