Sony PSP Coming Out Tomorrow

[Scott MS]

Anybody going to get it? I have one on pre-order to pick up tomorrow.

The most advanced personal game system yet. I've seen some demos and it's awesome.

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[Chaplin]

Unfortunately, it doesn't play Playstation games and even if you want to watch movies on it, you have to buy new media. It's pretty cool, but too expensive in the long run.

 

[vince56]

I'm definitely gonna buy one, but I'm gonna be smart about it. I'm waiting until christmas time when the price will drop below $150 for it, more games will be out for it, and it'll be competing with the new Xbox360 console.

There's no games for it right now that really turn me on, so I have no problem waiting.

 

[thirty-two]

There's no games for it right now that really turn me on

TMI!

 

[Scott MS]

It is expensive, but I like a few of the games coming soon like:

ATV Offroad Fury: Blazin' Trails
Hot Shots Golf
Gran Turismo 4
Madden 2006

I'm sharing it with my 10 year old son. A yes, you can't play existing games on it because this thing is smaller than a PS2 disc. The new discs are very small.

Honestly, my son saved up a bunch of his money and sold some older games on eBay for this (basically liquidated the GameBoy SP and all of the games). So I volunteered to buy a couple of games for it. It will be hot, worlds better than the Nintendo products.



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[Scott MS]

There all kinds of features, including it has built in 802.11b. If you have a wireless access point, several of the games are online so you can play against other people over the internet and via 802.11b wireless. Pretty cool stuff.

 

[Shane]

The new PSP

Anyone go buy this today? I did and let me tell you it is one awesome little machine. It outs the Nintendo DS to shame. The graphics are amazing it is literally like having a little PS2 in your hands. Plays movies(came with Spiderman 2) and so much more!

Highly Recommend!

 

[Chaz]

My friend bought one.

I was checking it out today. The only thing that gets me is there is yet another format to buy movies in.

The screen and the features on it are great. For the money it blows away an ipod.

 

[Scott MS]

I bought one for my son this morning . . . and then I got one for myself this evening!!

It is quite a machine.

 

[Scott MS]

Pretty cool device. You can connect multiple units together use Ad Hoc 802.11b mode, or connect to the Internet and play other gamers.

 

[Chaz]

This article points out the problems I have with this device and with Sony in general. It seems like Sony is always interested in remaking the world in thier own image rather than making the best devices for consumers.

I general I don't support Sony because I don't like thier proprietary ways.

Sony's PlayStation Portable Has Miles To Go

March 25, 2005 10:07AM

Standards, rather than proprietary technologies, are growing more and more important in a networked world. A continuing insistence on doing everything the Sony way leads only to isolation.



The new Sony Latest News about Sony PlayStation Portable Latest News about PlayStation Portable is a brilliant portable game player with multimedia aspirations. It also manages to collect in one product all the contradictions that cause frustration for Sony (SNE) customers these days --- and indicate why new CEO Howard Stringer will have his hands full restoring Sony to its past consumer electronics glory.

There are many things to like about the $250 PSP. To start with, it has an attractive design and a shiny black case. It weighs just 10 oz. and sports an outstanding 4.3-in. widescreen display. As a portable game console, it sets a new standard for excellence. Its superb 3-D graphics deliver smooth images in even the fastest-action sequences, and its controls are sure and responsive. Given that the PSP is in the PlayStation family, the availability of games, starting at $40, should be very good.

The PSP is also a fine movie player --- with a catch. The video is as good as I have seen on any portable device. And, as in games, the stereo sound (through earphones) is great. Battery life for games or movies runs up to about five hours.

Multidysfunctional

The frustrating part is that the PSP can play movies only from a sort of mini-DVD disk in a proprietary design that Sony calls a Universal Media Disc (UMD). Only a handful of titles, mostly action films, such as Sony Pictures' Spider-Man 2, are available initially -- at $20 a pop -- and it's far from clear whether studios will embrace the format. Sony has no plans to offer recordable UMDs, and since the PSP has no hard drive, you're stuck with what is available prerecorded. You can download your own video clips to the memory card, but the capacity is very limited.

The PSP also includes Wi-Fi. That means it can connect to nearby PSPs for multiplayer games or to the Internet to obtain software updates or for access to Sony's online gaming service. But it doesn't let you enjoy streaming video or music over Wi-Fi. And the new consoles don't support the best current wireless security Latest News about Security standard, Wi-Fi Protected Access, so you will have to relax security on your home network if you want to take full advantage of it.

The PSP also suffers from a problem inherent in multifunction devices. Its specialized design as a game console makes it awkward for other uses. For example, gamers understand the function of the circle, cross, square, and triangle buttons, but their function in, say, controlling the a movie playback, is obscure at best.

Attitude Adjustment

Sony has made much of the PSP's music-player abilities. But three years into the iPod era, it's amazing the company got it so wrong. There's no concept of automatic sync, standard on other players for loading songs. Instead, you must find the music files on your computer. Then you copy them onto the PSP's Memory Stick memory card, either by inserting the card in aPC Latest News about PC adapter or by connecting a USB Latest News about USB cable between the PSP and the computer and manually putting the PSP into USB mode.

The PSP supports only MP3 Latest News about MP3 and Sony's own ATRAC formats, so the only purchased music you can play is songs from Sony's Connect music service. Even then, purchased music must be stored on a special type of Memory Stick -- another Sony design -- that includes Sony's MagicGate copy protection.

Fortunately, most of the PSP's worst deficiencies are in software and could be remedied, even on existing units, if Sony chose to take action. It could, for example, add software to allow music transfers from a computer and permit support for standard formats, such as Windows Media. The PSP would be more useful if the Wi-Fi connection could be used to play online audio and video content -- and not just what Sony chooses to provide.

This will, however, require some attitude adjustment by Sony. Standards, rather than proprietary technologies, are growing more and more important in a networked world. A continuing insistence on doing everything the Sony way leads only to isolation.

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[Scott MS]

I agree with the article. In the end, the PSP is a game machine and I didn't buy it to surf the web or listen to music or watch movies.

I agree that Sony shouldn't ride the fence here. They should either include full features for music, etc. or not advertise it.

In the end, it's a portable gaming maching and it is awesome. I am selling all my son's Game Boy Advance titles and players because Nintendo's units are very outdated now.

 

[Evil Ash]

Who didn't see this coming?

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/04/20/news_6122635.html

Playboy sexing up PSPs

Venerable nudie-mag media empire says it will begin offering downloadable pictorials formatted for Sony's portable.

When the PSP first hit the market, Sony was quick to talk up how it could be used to view photos and videos downloaded from the Internet. Given that a sizable chunk of said images and video are adult in nature, it was only a matter of time before a purveyor of 18-and-up-only entertainment decided to take advantage of the handheld.

Now, just under a month after the PSP's release, Playboy Enterprises has released a suite of erotic video and photos custom-tailored for the device. This morning, the venerable nudie-mag media empire announced the creation of "PlayboyStation Portable," a section of Playboy.com that will let visitors download two free non-nude galleries and one free video. All three were formatted specifically for viewing on the PSP and feature Cyber Girl of the Year 2005 Amy Sue Cooper pretending to be a video game heroine. Additional PSP-formatted photo galleries and video of Cooper completely nude are available to members of Playboy.com's paid subscription service, Cyber Club.

"Gaming and the Internet go hand in hand, so shooting sexy, action-themed pictorials and video for the coolest piece of portable gaming technology out there was a no-brainer," said Playboy.com managing photo editor Chad Doering. "We took advantage of the PSP's 16:9 widescreen ratio and developed our own video game action heroine." For her part, Cooper also praised the PSP. "The thought of being carried around in a guy's pocket and having him push my buttons is really sexy," she said.

PlayboyStation Portable is not the first time Playboy has attempted to court the gamer demographic. Last year, Playboy magazine featured a series of virtual game heroines posing "nude," including BloodRayne, Mortal Kombat's Mileena, and Nina Williams from Tekken. It also oversaw development of Playboy: The Mansion, a simulation game that put players in the slippers and robe of Playboy founder and legendary lothario Hugh Hefner.

 

[Ryanwb]

"Gaming and the Internet go hand in hand,

Apparently so does something else