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Alby_da_Wolf on 24 May 2010

BTW, if the reason for dropping optical drive were just to make it slimmer and more rugged, games could be sold on read-only memory cards, that could even include antipiracy authentication circuitry making them not copiable with standard card readers even using for the card a standard form factor and connector to save costs.



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Yakuzaice on 24 May 2010

Ugh, the time before E3 seems to be free reign for posting rumors as news.  VG247 is by far the worst offender.



alziron on 24 May 2010

i think they want change how we look to the handheld devise psp

from gaming handheld to smartphone gaming media-player handheld

really good move



badgenome on 24 May 2010
“PSP go… was the first device of its kind, where you didn’t have packaged goods or pre-recorded media, and I think PSP go will blaze the trail for future iterations of the handheld,” he said.

I guess someone didn't get the "We're not arrogant, Apple is!" memo.

Fucking delusional.



loy310 on 24 May 2010

I must be hard of hearing, because I've watch that video 3 times and he did not mention the PSP2 at all, much less the PSP2 being download only.

TOPIC IS FAKE!!!



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Darth Tigris on 24 May 2010

So they really want to go up against the likes of iPhone, Android and WP7? Yeah, good luck with that.



sad.man.loves.vgc on 24 May 2010

We should get misleading titles banned along with Patcher's predictions.



MikeB on 24 May 2010
Galaki said:
MikeB said:
I am probably more a tech enthusiast than most here.

This will allow the device to be sleeker and more sturdy. It's a portable device and I think removing moving parts is a good idea. It's good for a better battery life, making the device slimmer, less wear issues in course of time, better loading times / higher tranfer rate for streaming and you don't have to worry about carrying storage media with you.

IMO it's the way of the future for handhelds and certainly a much better approach from a technical perspective for long term potential. For retailers it may be less interesting as they will probably only carry PSN code cards for credit.

Broadband internet is also a good idea, the popular iPhones and Blackberries have paved the way for improved coverage. Online gaming can thus become more advanced on handhelds.

Pretty sure most would agree but the majority of consumers aren't ready for it.

I think the market is ready for this, smartphone game sales are exploding.

The PSP isn't ready for this, nearly all of the games weren't designed to take advantage of this just like for example Halo 3 wasn't designed to take advantage of full harddrive installation on the 360. The PSP2 however can be a clean start and Sony will have to highlight the clear benefits. A couple of years from now I think many gamers won't want it any other way (as it's a portable handheld, totally different from a console sitting underneath a HDTV connected to home cinema setup where (size, weight, seperate storage media, etc) the benefits don't outway the disadvantages here).

For example it also to a much greater extend open up the possibility of smaller companies to release games which aren't full retail games published on CD or cartridge. I am confident this is the road to take for the future.

 



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Silver-Tiger on 24 May 2010

Guys, most of the comments on this thread are rather funny.

You think if the PSP2 is download-only, it will fail miserably?

This must also be the reason why the iPhone failed so miserably... oh wait....

PSP Go failed because it was an overpriced, bad-supported, ugly piece of Sh.., that's why it failed.



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loy310 on 24 May 2010

Ask Apple, because for them DD is a major success, both the iPhone and iPod touch have no form of physical media, so Sony making the RUMORED PSP2 DD only might not be a bad idea. The PSP go failed because of the price of the go itself and the cost of the DD games.