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pika on 28 December 2008
dolemit3 said:
pika said:
I have an Iphone, no thanks!!!

I am going to make a sackboy thread now.

 

 

I will have to use my Unabomber skills more often..........



 

 

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Spankey on 29 December 2008
The Anarchyz said:
They have to kill the UMD all together... Handheld gaming has to be efficient in energy, noise and loading times, that's why it's called portable... And the UMD drive cuts in those areas... if you don't believe me, use a hacked OS, dump the UMDs in a Memory Card and play from there, you'll see the difference...

 

Agree with bolded.

What I'd like to see in a new firmware revision is the ability to do just that. copy the entire UMD to memory stick and just have the game UMD in there for copy protection purposes similar to the X360 DVD -> HDD option.

I don't use illegal firmware/Pandora on my PSP, so that solution to extend battery life seems like a no brainer to me imo.



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heruamon on 29 December 2008

What is the cost benefit analysis on this proposition? There are several smart phones with this feature, but they cost $100 more than PSP, in most cases with 2-year contracts. After the cost debacle of producing the ps3, son's not in the position to be making money losing platforms.  The DS has touch screen….kinda….but the psp would need a better one.



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Lord N on 29 December 2008
Paperdiego said:
The Anarchyz said:
johnsobas said:
The Anarchyz said:
They have to kill the UMD all together... Handheld gaming has to be efficient in energy, noise and loading times, that's why it's called portable... And the UMD drive cuts in those areas... if you don't believe me, use a hacked OS, dump the UMDs in a Memory Card and play from there, you'll see the difference...

If you think about it all of nintendo's handheld competitors were more clumsy, big, and had less battery life.  Basically they had things that the general public didn't want.  Competitors need to learn from their mistakes.

 

 

Exactly, it's still impressive that the PSP passed the 40 million mark, when every competitor had struggled to sell a few millions (Game Gear was the only one to ever get near 13 million), but if they really want to enter in real handheld competition with Nintendo, they have to think about what the general public wants in a portable system...

 

how is it impressive??I mean yeah it has done great but compared to other playstaion products its a disaster(ps3 not withstanding so far)

it had the playsttion brand behind it.. before it came out people thought it was going to gett gaming out of the "gehto", wipe the flor with nintendo.

 

 

Given that criteria, then the SNES, N64, and Gamecube were all disasters as none of their LTD sales ever equaled those of the NES. If you count the GB and GBC as one console(as many people do), then the GBA is also a disaster because it came up about 40 million shy.

Back to the thread. Any major hardware revisions such as built-in storage, a change in media, or the addition of a touch screen or second analog stick should be saved for the PSP's successor.

To add in any of those features right now and have games that take advantage of them would effectively alienate 42 million current PSP owners.



 

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Zlejedi on 29 December 2008

Imho they will put sisaxis motion sensor in next PSP first before touch screen.



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Kyros on 29 December 2008

They most likely will and it will suck. I hate touch-screens for gaming. Its ok for the DS with the stylus but even that is not as comfortable as it should be.

Now if they would remove some of the PS2 controls they added in an attempt to make the PSP a mini-PS2 it would be fine. Three action buttons instead of four for example. . I actually like the mini-analog stick but either get rid of the D-PAD or of it. Both are not needed and the analog stick below the D-PAD is uncomfortable to use. You get all crampy after a long play time.