Post by Varion on Apr 14, 2008 9:29:15 GMT -5
Hi, regular anti-PSP person reporting for duty. Except I'm not here to bash it today.
That's why it's region free? The fact that no one cares about Europe should be well known enough by now, which is why my last few consoles have been imports - but you don't even have to do that with the PSP, just order your games off videogamesplus or something and it's usually around the same price if not cheaper than getting them in Europe, and you get them months earlier. Calling it 'the worst system in history' is a gross exaggeration at best.
Huge differences, namely they fixed the feeble excuse for a 'backlight' and made it less of a heavy lump? Well true, those are good things. I'm going to take wyrdy's word about the weight and improved comfort and thus say the PSP slim had exactly the same changes though, and more. And they are useful features - if I liked handhelds (and I'm becoming increasingly aware of the fact I don't - DS, PSP, whatever, give me a good home console instead) they'd be enough to get me to replace my current PSP with one.
TV Out? Useful feature. If you're not on the go and want to play games what's the point in looking at a tiny screen?
UMD Caching? Useful feature. Sure you can effectively do it on custom firmware, but what of the people who don't want to use custom firmware? It doesn't change the fact it's useful.
Better battery life? Useful feature. I don't see how a handheld console lasting longer on its batteries could possibly not be a useful feature. Yes, you could argue the DS Lite didn't need better battery life and I'd agree with you, but the other two remain, as does the fact it's still a useful feature.
So basically they did everything Nintendo did and then some. Is it worth upgrading? Well, that's subjective. But saying the DS Lite had massively more upgrades than the PSP slim is just objectively silly.
Oh of course, and spin everything Nintendo does to make them look like god's gift to gaming. Shoddy consoles refusing to play dual layer discs, which are far from new technology? Oh no, no one minds, thank you for cleaning them for us! Whenever Sony does something right it's either ignored (Region free in the PS3, universal power supply so I don't have to buy a stepdown, not charging for the web browser, or even common sense things that don't seem to be common sense this generation, like actually building it properly) or twisted to make them look bad.
For Europe, the PSP is the worst system in history. we only get a new PSP game here every three months. all those RPG's that are on sale in the US will NEVER make it to EU shores. PSP is a fucking joke in my opinion.
That's why it's region free? The fact that no one cares about Europe should be well known enough by now, which is why my last few consoles have been imports - but you don't even have to do that with the PSP, just order your games off videogamesplus or something and it's usually around the same price if not cheaper than getting them in Europe, and you get them months earlier. Calling it 'the worst system in history' is a gross exaggeration at best.
The ds and ds lite have huge differences (ie better screens)
Huge differences, namely they fixed the feeble excuse for a 'backlight' and made it less of a heavy lump? Well true, those are good things. I'm going to take wyrdy's word about the weight and improved comfort and thus say the PSP slim had exactly the same changes though, and more. And they are useful features - if I liked handhelds (and I'm becoming increasingly aware of the fact I don't - DS, PSP, whatever, give me a good home console instead) they'd be enough to get me to replace my current PSP with one.
TV Out? Useful feature. If you're not on the go and want to play games what's the point in looking at a tiny screen?
UMD Caching? Useful feature. Sure you can effectively do it on custom firmware, but what of the people who don't want to use custom firmware? It doesn't change the fact it's useful.
Better battery life? Useful feature. I don't see how a handheld console lasting longer on its batteries could possibly not be a useful feature. Yes, you could argue the DS Lite didn't need better battery life and I'd agree with you, but the other two remain, as does the fact it's still a useful feature.
So basically they did everything Nintendo did and then some. Is it worth upgrading? Well, that's subjective. But saying the DS Lite had massively more upgrades than the PSP slim is just objectively silly.
I always marvel at how people constantly spin the things Sony does in a negative light.
Oh of course, and spin everything Nintendo does to make them look like god's gift to gaming. Shoddy consoles refusing to play dual layer discs, which are far from new technology? Oh no, no one minds, thank you for cleaning them for us! Whenever Sony does something right it's either ignored (Region free in the PS3, universal power supply so I don't have to buy a stepdown, not charging for the web browser, or even common sense things that don't seem to be common sense this generation, like actually building it properly) or twisted to make them look bad.