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Millennium on 03 September 2008
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thekitchensink said:
Resident_Hazard said:
Adding a microphone in the PSP now it pretty dump. What are they going to do about games that utilize it? That's like suddenly making a new DS with two touch screens. It'll either alienate many PSP gamers, or it will go largely unused.

 The microphone will be useful for online chat, and voice-recognition games like SOCOM.  Basically, you'll be able to do whatever you do with a headset, without the headset.  It's a good thing.

Except keep Mommy from hearing your conversations with the 12-year-old rednecks.

But it doesn't matter. It'll be basically ignored by developers, who don't dare alienate gamers by using something that didn't come with the system at launch. Zelda:Four Swords Adventures and Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles showed us what happened when you do that: two of the Gamecube's finest multiplayer experiences flopped commercially because people didn't want to buy GBAs.



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