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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Jan 28, 2011 19:57:35 GMT -5
I am really skeptical about the new PSP. I'm just not sure if Sony should bother much with the PSP and rather go for a smart phone which can also play videogames like a PSP. With the way the smart phones sales are going up and their popularity soaring, I'm not sure if handheld gaming consoles is worth the effort much longer. Yeah, you slap a phone in the PSP2 and all of a sudden you can charge $600+ to buy one outright and nobody would bat an eye. The iPhone 4 is $650-750 here in Canada. Well there IS an Android-based PSP-Phone that Sony is also making. It basically looks like a sliding Sony Ericsson phone that, instead of a number/keypad has a PSP D-Pad, and PSP face buttons. But I'm guessing the only games it can play are those on the upcoming PlayStation Suite, which lets you play games on Android based phones.
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Post by wcw on Jan 28, 2011 21:17:29 GMT -5
Its still a small screen. Why pay 300-350 dollars to play games you can get on a much bigger screen on a system that is cheaper and has a bigger library? The portable aspect to me won't sell the system in my opinion because it doesn't offer enough beyond letting you play a console experience on the road. As I said its a lot like when the PSP first launched You are just guessing at the price right now. For all we know, it could be $200-$250. True the 350 price is speculation but I can't see this thing costing less then 300 dollars. The PSP2 is suppose to come out by the end of the year which means that if it costs 300 dollars (And it could cost more) its going to cost as much if not more then a PS3 (If the PS3 gets a possible price drop by the end of the year). In the end a handheld should offer you something you can't get on the console. Right now I don't see the PSP2 doing that (Even with the touch screen) I just see it offering a console like experience on the portable. Which sounds good like its a portable PS3 but I think that in the end people want a console to provide them that experience with a bigger screen in a setting where its more comfortable to sink hours of gameplay. It will be a good system and sell well but it won't outsell the 3DS and it might be Sony's last portable system as I think a gaming smart phone is the future of adult oriented portable gaming.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Jan 28, 2011 21:44:45 GMT -5
Can you play Ridge Racer on it?
RIIIIIIDGE RACER
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Post by Jay Peas 42 on Jan 28, 2011 22:05:09 GMT -5
Tut, tut, tut. Hopefully, this will depress the price of PSPs. Because I really want to play FF 7 on a small screen, but not have to pay several hundred dollars to do so. Although, I do have the PC version, I wonder what I could do with that.
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Post by Sero on Jan 29, 2011 0:35:28 GMT -5
The NGP strikes me as falling down the same rabbit hole as the original PSP.
Everybody back in 2004 creamed themselves at the idea of " console gaming on the go!!!", but people don't want to play console games on the go. They want to play Angry Birds, and Plants vs. Zombies, or if they need something more substantive, Pokemon, or simple action games like Mario. Handheld gaming is and always has been about simplicity and immediacy. Just slapping big, bloated, complex "Triple A" gaming onto a tiny, cordless screen is pointless. I mean, who wants to sit on/in a shaky bus/plane/car playing an FPS, trying to accurately aim with analog sticks on a 3" screen? And if your going to just play it at home, just get a PS3. Who thinks that's a good idea?
Am I saying that the NGP will be a monumental failure? No, as even the current PSP has been able to find it's niche after all of these years and be an entirely valid alternative to the DS. However, I think that Sony as a gaming hardware manufacturer is going more and more down the path of being a niche company, producing high-end toys for early adopters and technophiles that excite more in concept than in execution. Nintendo has succeeded the last 5 years by approaching gaming as an activity instead of just a technology, and Sony has failed by doing the exact opposite.
Of course, this is just one somewhat jealous Nintendo fanboy's opinion.
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Jan 29, 2011 0:57:50 GMT -5
The NGP strikes me as falling down the same rabbit hole as the original PSP. Everybody back in 2004 creamed themselves at the idea of " console gaming on the go!!!", but people don't want to play console games on the go. They want to play Angry Birds, and Plants vs. Zombies, or if they need something more substantive, Pokemon, or simple action games like Mario. Handheld gaming is and always has been about simplicity and immediacy. Just slapping big, bloated, complex "Triple A" gaming onto a tiny, cordless screen is pointless. I mean, who wants to sit on/in a shaky bus/plane/car playing an FPS, trying to accurately aim with analog sticks on a 3" screen? And if your going to just play it at home, just get a PS3. Who thinks that's a good idea? Am I saying that the NGP will be a monumental failure? No, as even the current PSP has been able to find it's niche after all of these years and be an entirely valid alternative to the DS. However, I think that Sony as a gaming hardware manufacturer is going more and more down the path of being a niche company, producing high-end toys for early adopters and technophiles that excite more in concept than in execution. Nintendo has succeeded the last 5 years by approaching gaming as an activity instead of just a technology, and Sony has failed by doing the exact opposite. Of course, this is just one somewhat jealous Nintendo fanboy's opinion. Two things. 1) The NGP has a touch screen, so it can EASILY play all the hit casual market games that are on the iPhone. The developers just have to be willing to port them over. 2) I'd hardly call 60+ million units sold worldwide "niche". That's how many PSPs have been sold.
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Post by AFN: Judge Shred on Jan 29, 2011 15:07:06 GMT -5
The NGP strikes me as falling down the same rabbit hole as the original PSP. Everybody back in 2004 creamed themselves at the idea of " console gaming on the go!!!", but people don't want to play console games on the go. They want to play Angry Birds, and Plants vs. Zombies, or if they need something more substantive, Pokemon, or simple action games like Mario. Handheld gaming is and always has been about simplicity and immediacy. Just slapping big, bloated, complex "Triple A" gaming onto a tiny, cordless screen is pointless. I mean, who wants to sit on/in a shaky bus/plane/car playing an FPS, trying to accurately aim with analog sticks on a 3" screen? And if your going to just play it at home, just get a PS3. Who thinks that's a good idea? Am I saying that the NGP will be a monumental failure? No, as even the current PSP has been able to find it's niche after all of these years and be an entirely valid alternative to the DS. However, I think that Sony as a gaming hardware manufacturer is going more and more down the path of being a niche company, producing high-end toys for early adopters and technophiles that excite more in concept than in execution. Nintendo has succeeded the last 5 years by approaching gaming as an activity instead of just a technology, and Sony has failed by doing the exact opposite. Of course, this is just one somewhat jealous Nintendo fanboy's opinion. Two things. 1) The NGP has a touch screen, so it can EASILY play all the hit casual market games that are on the iPhone. The developers just have to be willing to port them over. 2) I'd hardly call 60+ million units sold worldwide "niche". That's how many PSPs have been sold. I never understand how people think the PSP was a failure, the hardware wasn't at all, it has done extremely well, the games on the other hand....
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