The PSP only looks delicate, it truly isn't. I simply don't know hot it got that rep.
As for the battery, the higher capacity one is out, and the standard capacity ones are cheap, and unlike the DS, you can just pop them in and out, so the potential battery life is longer than the DS.
Also "fun and games" is subjective. The PSP has a built in web browser, RSS support and wifi. It can view photos, video and read text files off the stick. You can download game demos to it using it's own web browser. It plays MP3, WMA and AAC MP4 audio. (WAV too.) It has a largest and clearest screen of any portable gaming device. You can buy a device for your home entertainment setup that streams video from it to your PSP over the net. It has a faster CPU than the PS2 does and the same amount of RAM.
It does all that, plays games and costs $199. It's a steal.
Sony's being caught by the hypocrisy of gamers, for years we've said
"We don't like our portable games cut down, with worse graphics, fewer levels and crappy sound, we want a handheld that can come close to our home machines.
So, Sony makes such a handheld, then gamers say,
"We don't want to play the same games we play at home, we want to play 2D sidescrollers. and puzzle games"
G-Rod spends his time in Chi-town because....Chicago is the real capitol of Illinois.
It's where all the important stuff is. The majority of Illinois citizens live in and around the city. There's 5 milliion people in Cook county alone. So tell me, why should the capitol remain in a backwater like Springfield, when they moved it there from the backwaters of Kaskaskia and Vandalia.
Government shouldn't be using tax dollars for self-marketing.
Laughs.
That's how it's done in Illinois, why do you think our last three governor's previous to G-Rod were former Secretaries of State. The SoS is the one governmental body that everyone does business with and the holder of that office can do constant campaigning disguised as organ donor commercials and whatnot. In fact if Jesse White wasn't so old he'd probably be running for governor. It's why Dan Rutherford is running, he's not going to win this time, he knows that, but Jesse's old and won't be there forever, he's counting on the name recognition from this run getting him the office next time, and thus have a real chance at the governorship after a term or two at SoS.
Isn't it past time we moved the capitol...again. (Springfield is actually Illinois, third capitol. Kaskaskia and Vandalia were 1st and 2nd) This time to Chicago. That's the real capitol of Illinois and everyone, even the downstaters, knows it. Though they won't admit it.
You know what, I remember 20 years ago where there would be pirate swap meets and BBS's just for the purpose of pirating Commodore 64 games. Shouldn't that have killed PC gaming?
It did kill PC gaming. Remember, the C64 is a PC (personal computer) I remember reading back in the 80's that many dev's jumped ship from C64 (and later on Amiga) games to x86 MS-DOS games because the piracy in the C64/Amiga user community was so widespread.
(I know they made Warcraft 2 and Diablo for Playstation/Saturn and Starcraft for N64, but the control schemes on the consoles are pretty much unworkable...you need a mouse and keyboard).
No, you don't. I've played Diablo on the PSone and on the PC, and Diablo makes a better console game. Which is why the PS2 had hordes of Diablo inspired action RPG's released for it. You only need a mouse and keyboard if the UI is badly designed. I loathe the keyboard for any game of game control in modern games other than text input for chatting, it's all wrong, it's not analog, it's kludgy and crampy.
I couldn't see playing something like WOW on a console.
Well for MMORPG]'s you just plug a keyboard in for the chat.
Not to sound elitist, but I should also add that for most of the types of gaming I usually like, consoles simply are not a substitute:
Not so much now as in the past, I think.
If you want RPG's, the Xboxen are the wrong systems to own, the PS2 is what you want. Admittedly most of them will be FF style but there are some that aren't. The PS2 wizardry game is very much like an old school PC RPG. The Persona games also feel more like PC RPG's. The PS2 also has the best action RPG's out there.
For FPS's the Xboxen seemed tp be preferred by dev houses, though the PS2's USB ports enabled it to have keyboard/mouse control in certain FPS's. The third person shooters however, are excellent. I also thought that HL2 had already hit the Xbox..last year.
Strategy games are a strange dilemma. While a bunch got ported to the PSone (Warcraft, CivII, Dune2000, C&C, X-com) , very few got ported to the PS2. The consoles also host the Sims and Sims2 Strategy RPG's on the other hand are plentiful.
Ahhh, interesting, I just tried a self created AVC file (created with ffmpeg based PSPVC) and it doesn't work in the new video folder, but put it in the MP_ROOT/101ANV01 folder with the usual MAQfoo and it works. Regular MP4 SP created with PSPVC works fine in the new folder.
So I guess we have to keep the old folder around for our self converted AVC files, at least for now.
Because Sony doesn't mind homebrew running in a controlled sandbox, that's what the Net Yaroze, and Playstation 2 Linux kit were for.
And putting Linux on the PS3 is another bullet point to add to it's capabilities. Sony can market that thing as a "secondary" computer. "You want to read your e-mail while someone else is using your windows machine? With Linux on your PS3 you can."
Both the PS2 and PS3 as well as all the other consoles are computers by the classic definistion of the term, they have a processing unit, inputs and outputs and memory.
But if you're meaning computer as in "personal computer" both the PS2:
The PS2 had USB. Think of the potential for hooking up a mouse and keyboard, or even a trackball and a graphics tablet, and playing strategy and adventure games that needed something other than a joystick for input
You mean like Myst? There's a bunch of PS2 games with mouse and/or keyboard support and it's sometimes not mentioned on the box or in the manual. The network setup disk that came with the NA even supports USB keyboard.
The PS2 had a slot for a hard drive. They never delivered on that either, it was up to Squaresoft to bundle hard drives with the one game that actually used it.
Metal Saga, yeah I just found that out. Street Fighter Alpha Anthology NBA 2K6 Major League Baseball 2K6 ESPN NFL 2K5 ESPN NBA 2K5 RPG Maker 3 Resident Evil: Outbreak (Both File #1 and File #2) SOCOM II: U.S. Navy SEALs SOCOM 3 US Navy SEALs Final Fantasy XI
Not as many as I'd like.
And yes, Sony totally failed on using the PS2 as a media device, except in Japan. Though if you have a Linux kit, you have some options. XMMS can play streaming mp3, and I've encoded video for the PSP...slowly. on it.
Look back to the original PlayStation. They released a mouse and keyboard for that. It was used by perhaps a handful of games, then discontinued.
What? A keyboard? I know about (and own) the PSone mouse but I've never heard of a PSone keyboard.
But you'd have to be an idiot to buy a PS3 based on what it might potentially do. It's the same story every generation--they overspec the hardware, and fail to use most of the capabilities they built into it. And then they come out with a second generation console that eliminates the stuff they aren't using.
There is truth in what you say, but having Linux on the PS3 pre-installed does give an owner more options. Even if they don't release native PS3 "media center" type applications, Linux is there.
I guess you aren't old enough to remember when most games didn't have a story at all, and we're mosty twitch fests. Even the games that had a pretense of a story were often basic dungeon crawls.
And some of us are in the non x86 Linux camp and need the sources for anything we'd choose to install since there's usually no binaries for our decidedly non "standard" Linux machines. Not that Google Earth would run on my box, so I'm not really complaining.
but no PS3 will run Quicken or Corel Painter, or support my scanner, printer, and other essential hardware. Those limitations immediately make it worth significantly less than a desktop to me, regardless of its games capability.
It won't need to run Quicken or Corel Painter, all it needs to be capable of doing is run some kind of basic household budget or photo editing application that the majority of users need. And that, it most certainly can do.
Linux on the PS3 is Sony's gambit to hurt Microsoft where it hurts the most, their core business. If people figure out that they don't need to spend lots of money on virus/trojan/spyware proneoperating system/software from Redmond, that Sony's console can handle their computing needs in a more stable fashion......
You see most people's computing needs are very simple, web browsing, IMing, e-mail, maybe a web game or two, perhaps some music stuff, some photo editing. I know personally that even a PS2 can handle most of that sort of thing, I've got a Linux kit. Sony thinks that a souped up gaming console with all sorts of added capability is the perfect thing to wean people from the Wintel platform.
Now whether it will work out that way, is another story.
Because it does so much. It's not just a PS3 game machine it's a PS2/PS1 game machine, it'll hook up to your PSP, if you have one.
With LInux you can do all sorts of regular desktop stuff, most applications will probably be just a./configure && make && make install away.
And it does DVD, CD, and BD video/audio.
It's a steal! No $600 computer can play games as well as the PS3.
One box to replace many boxes is what I think Sony is thinking.
That said, I'm not too happy with the $600 price for the high end PS3.
anecdote: The windows machine in the house is a Gateway laptop bought in 2003, the PS2's in the house are quite simply better game machines than it is, even if it's got 16x the RAM and 7.5x the CPU speed. Sure it's a laptop but you'd expect it to hold it's own better.
True, the iPod is a mass storage device, but it won't play music files unless it's database has been updated/properly written with the information to play them. Which requires iTunes. (or GTKpod on Linux) That's the point they are trying to make.
With a Lyra, or say a Sony PSP it's just drag and drop the albums/files to the correct folder and you're good to go, no special software needed.
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Like with the Yaroze for the PS1 and the Linux kit for the PS2, and the Linux distro pre-installed on the PS3's hard drive?
The PSP is an anomaly
Tell me which features the DS has that the PSP doesn't.
Can the DS download podcasts and vodcasts directly to itself without additional hardware?
View photos, watch video 9both on the stick and streamed via Location Free?
Download demos directly to itself?
The PSP only looks delicate, it truly isn't. I simply don't know hot it got that rep.
As for the battery, the higher capacity one is out, and the standard capacity ones are cheap, and unlike the DS, you can just pop them in and out, so the potential battery life is longer than the DS.
Also "fun and games" is subjective. The PSP has a built in web browser, RSS support and wifi. It can view photos, video and read text files off the stick. You can download game demos to it using it's own web browser. It plays MP3, WMA and AAC MP4 audio. (WAV too.) It has a largest and clearest screen of any portable gaming device. You can buy a device for your home entertainment setup that streams video from it to your PSP over the net. It has a faster CPU than the PS2 does and the same amount of RAM.
It does all that, plays games and costs $199. It's a steal.
special Linux PS2's ?
Any PS2 with an HD bay can use the Linux kit.
Sony's being caught by the hypocrisy of gamers, for years we've said
"We don't like our portable games cut down, with worse graphics, fewer levels and crappy sound, we want a handheld that can come close to our home machines.
So, Sony makes such a handheld, then gamers say,
"We don't want to play the same games we play at home, we want to play 2D sidescrollers. and puzzle games"
Duos have actually come down in price, the standard price for 512MB sticks is now $38. 1GB for $68. Quite competitive with other formats.
G-Rod spends his time in Chi-town because....Chicago is the real capitol of Illinois.
It's where all the important stuff is. The majority of Illinois citizens live in and around the city. There's 5 milliion people in Cook county alone. So tell me, why should the capitol remain in a backwater like Springfield, when they moved it there from the backwaters of Kaskaskia and Vandalia.
Laughs.
That's how it's done in Illinois, why do you think our last three governor's previous to G-Rod were former Secretaries of State. The SoS is the one governmental body that everyone does business with and the holder of that office can do constant campaigning disguised as organ donor commercials and whatnot. In fact if Jesse White wasn't so old he'd probably be running for governor. It's why Dan Rutherford is running, he's not going to win this time, he knows that, but Jesse's old and won't be there forever, he's counting on the name recognition from this run getting him the office next time, and thus have a real chance at the governorship after a term or two at SoS.
Isn't it past time we moved the capitol...again. (Springfield is actually Illinois, third capitol. Kaskaskia and Vandalia were 1st and 2nd) This time to Chicago. That's the real capitol of Illinois and everyone, even the downstaters, knows it. Though they won't admit it.
It did kill PC gaming. Remember, the C64 is a PC (personal computer) I remember reading back in the 80's that many dev's jumped ship from C64 (and later on Amiga) games to x86 MS-DOS games because the piracy in the C64/Amiga user community was so widespread.
No, you don't. I've played Diablo on the PSone and on the PC, and Diablo makes a better console game. Which is why the PS2 had hordes of Diablo inspired action RPG's released for it. You only need a mouse and keyboard if the UI is badly designed. I loathe the keyboard for any game of game control in modern games other than text input for chatting, it's all wrong, it's not analog, it's kludgy and crampy.
Well for MMORPG]'s you just plug a keyboard in for the chat.
If you want RPG's, the Xboxen are the wrong systems to own, the PS2 is what you want. Admittedly most of them will be FF style but there are some that aren't. The PS2 wizardry game is very much like an old school PC RPG. The Persona games also feel more like PC RPG's. The PS2 also has the best action RPG's out there.
For FPS's the Xboxen seemed tp be preferred by dev houses, though the PS2's USB ports enabled it to have keyboard/mouse control in certain FPS's. The third person shooters however, are excellent. I also thought that HL2 had already hit the Xbox..last year.
Strategy games are a strange dilemma. While a bunch got ported to the PSone (Warcraft, CivII, Dune2000, C&C, X-com) , very few got ported to the PS2. The consoles also host the Sims and Sims2 Strategy RPG's on the other hand are plentiful.
Ahhh, interesting, I just tried a self created AVC file (created with ffmpeg based PSPVC) and it doesn't work in the new video folder, but put it in the MP_ROOT/101ANV01 folder with the usual MAQfoo and it works. Regular MP4 SP created with PSPVC works fine in the new folder.
So I guess we have to keep the old folder around for our self converted AVC files, at least for now.
Because Sony doesn't mind homebrew running in a controlled sandbox, that's what the Net Yaroze, and Playstation 2 Linux kit were for.
And putting Linux on the PS3 is another bullet point to add to it's capabilities. Sony can market that thing as a "secondary" computer. "You want to read your e-mail while someone else is using your windows machine? With Linux on your PS3 you can."
The PS2 LInux kit didn't bomb commercially, it was always intended as a limted release. They sold every single one of the NTSC region kits available.
They work for me. I've just downloaded http://geekbriefwp.podshow.com/ (which is iPod AVC/H.x264) via RSS and they played flawlessly.
No more converting iPod formatted vodcasts
Both the PS2 and PS3 as well as all the other consoles are computers by the classic definistion of the term, they have a processing unit, inputs and outputs and memory.
But if you're meaning computer as in "personal computer" both the PS2:
http://playstation2-linux.com/
[CronoCloud]$ uname -a
Linux 2.2.26-xr1 mips
and PS3 qualify.
You mean like Myst? There's a bunch of PS2 games with mouse and/or keyboard support and it's sometimes not mentioned on the box or in the manual. The network setup disk that came with the NA even supports USB keyboard.
There's more than one game
from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_2_Hard_D
Metal Saga, yeah I just found that out.
Street Fighter Alpha Anthology
NBA 2K6
Major League Baseball 2K6
ESPN NFL 2K5
ESPN NBA 2K5
RPG Maker 3
Resident Evil: Outbreak (Both File #1 and File #2)
SOCOM II: U.S. Navy SEALs
SOCOM 3 US Navy SEALs
Final Fantasy XI
Not as many as I'd like.
And yes, Sony totally failed on using the PS2 as a media device, except in Japan. Though if you have a Linux kit, you have some options. XMMS can play streaming mp3, and I've encoded video for the PSP...slowly. on it.
What? A keyboard? I know about (and own) the PSone mouse but I've never heard of a PSone keyboard.
There is truth in what you say, but having Linux on the PS3 pre-installed does give an owner more options. Even if they don't release native PS3 "media center" type applications, Linux is there.
I guess you aren't old enough to remember when most games didn't have a story at all, and we're mosty twitch fests. Even the games that had a pretense of a story were often basic dungeon crawls.
it runs on a Playstation 2 Linux kit, that's not that much bigger than a toaster.
And some of us are in the non x86 Linux camp and need the sources for anything we'd choose to install since there's usually no binaries for our decidedly non "standard" Linux machines. Not that Google Earth would run on my box, so I'm not really complaining.
It won't need to run Quicken or Corel Painter, all it needs to be capable of doing is run some kind of basic household budget or photo editing application that the majority of users need. And that, it most certainly can do.
Linux on the PS3 is Sony's gambit to hurt Microsoft where it hurts the most, their core business. If people figure out that they don't need to spend lots of money on virus/trojan/spyware proneoperating system/software from Redmond, that Sony's console can handle their computing needs in a more stable fashion......
You see most people's computing needs are very simple, web browsing, IMing, e-mail, maybe a web game or two, perhaps some music stuff, some photo editing. I know personally that even a PS2 can handle most of that sort of thing, I've got a Linux kit. Sony thinks that a souped up gaming console with all sorts of added capability is the perfect thing to wean people from the Wintel platform.
Now whether it will work out that way, is another story.
Because it does so much. It's not just a PS3 game machine it's a PS2/PS1 game machine, it'll hook up to your PSP, if you have one.
./configure && make && make install away.
With LInux you can do all sorts of regular desktop stuff, most applications will probably be just a
And it does DVD, CD, and BD video/audio.
It's a steal! No $600 computer can play games as well as the PS3.
One box to replace many boxes is what I think Sony is thinking.
That said, I'm not too happy with the $600 price for the high end PS3.
anecdote: The windows machine in the house is a Gateway laptop bought in 2003, the PS2's in the house are quite simply better game machines than it is, even if it's got 16x the RAM and 7.5x the CPU speed. Sure it's a laptop but you'd expect it to hold it's own better.
The Emotion Engine was the future of HPC, the Cell is simply an extension of ideas and concepts tested out with the EE.
True, the iPod is a mass storage device, but it won't play music files unless it's database has been updated/properly written with the information to play them. Which requires iTunes. (or GTKpod on Linux) That's the point they are trying to make.
With a Lyra, or say a Sony PSP it's just drag and drop the albums/files to the correct folder and you're good to go, no special software needed.