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INTEREST: Sony Announces PSP Successor, Codenamed NGP

AiddonValentine wrote:

GrilledEelHamatsu wrote: ArsenicSteel wrote: Front and rear cameras and a rear touch pad Sony continues to make swiss army knives with tools people will rarely use. It will be another Sony status symbol with a library that consists of ports that don't integrate all of the available bottle openers and corkscrews. Ha, Ha nice metaphor! Like I said until the price is revealed I have no straightfoward opinion of it. If NGP/PSP 2 is $300, has backward compatibility to UMD PSP, then it will be quite a contendor against 3DS and may replace PS3 which could be abandoned. If its 350-450 then it will implode rather badly and Sony will leave the game hardware business not long after. From what I've read, it's NOT backwards compatible with UMDs, which kinda ticks people off, including me. I just got a PSP in December and I have no less than 10 UMD games for it. And I do agree that there's NO WAY this thing is going to match the 3DS' price point, it'll be lucky to be ONLY$300 even if they initially sell it at a loss. The 3G connectivity also has me raising my brow because I dare say Sony is going to have to get into partnerships with a LOT of different phone companies for that to work. All I see is Sony trying the same, failed strategy they used with the PSP that made them the VERY distant runner up to Nintendo.

Then that's not a good sign, no UMD. That makes it harder for Sony to market it to PSP consumers. Like I said, Nintendo's flawless handheld execution come from thier experience,knowledge of handheld consumers, and careful marketing, doesn't Sony know that DS is BC with GBA? GBA is also compatible with GBC and GB. How do you release a handheld with no BC? It doesn't work for anyone.

Sony better not make the same mistakes they did with "PSP Go" or else there will be NO Playstation 4.

6Hokage wrote:

Mario1234567 wrote: Nintendo is gonna stomp this thing into the ground just like they did the PSP. Sony just don't get it. GIVE UP! nintendo is crap for kiddies, they did nothing to PSP - it was running for 7 years and just outdated. This NGP destroys anything nintendo has to offer. Oooh, 3D - no [expletive] shit, if you're 13.

What? Um the Ds came out before the PSP and Nintendo utterly destroyed it. Nintendo is why video games are here no other company is moving forward with games like Nintendo is, Sony is just copying everyone. The PSP2 is nothing but a Ipad with buttons and like the link feature that it has, they stole that from Nintendo's 3DS with street and spot pass. There is NO originality to it nothing to push the future of gaming. There waiting for Nintendo, Microsoft and Apple to do that so they can follow.

I just hope it plays video games, and not just downloads again. That would stink.

Front and rear cameras and a rear touch pad Sony continues to make swiss army knives with tools people will rarely use. It will be another Sony status symbol with a library that consists of ports that don't integrate all of the available bottle openers and corkscrews.

What? Um the Ds came out before the PSP and Nintendo utterly destroyed it. Nintendo is why video games are here no other company is moving forward with games like Nintendo is, Sony is just copying everyone. The PSP2 is nothing but a Ipad with buttons and like the link feature that it has, they stole that from Nintendo's 3DS with street and spot pass. There is NO originality to it nothing to push the future of gaming. There waiting for Nintendo, Microsoft and Apple to do that so they can follow.

Eh, this is not all that smart of a thing to say when every game Sony showed off displayed the unique features of the handheld:

Just for my sanity, guys, please don't respond to Mario or Segata Sanshiro over there. I'd rather this thread help alleviate misconceptions people have, rather than pointless arguing.

note: not actually copied from all those years ago
* It's got two screens. What use could anyone possibly have for two screens?
* It's got a stylus? WTF? If I wanted a PDA I would buy a PDA.
* It's just another GBA with a screen nobody will use.
* Why does a handheld need a mic. Just release a separate peripheral for the games that need it.
* It's good that they included a GBA slot, cause I don't see anyone actually developing for this.

Anyway, for those wondering about the usefulness of a back trackpad... let me take you back to the launch of the DS, and what people were saying.

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Anyway, for those wondering about the usefulness of a back trackpad... let me take you back to the launch of the DS, and what people were saying.

I never said any of those things about a Nintendo product after N64. When information on the first gen DS launched most of the people I know chalked up the all the new ideas as innovations from Nintendo to pursue new gaming options. Gamers were curious as wth could be done with those extras.

The backtrack as you call it is not a new innovation, it is a touchpad on the back of the hardware. Gamers already know what can be done with touchpads, putting one on the backside of a handheld looks to be overrated and underused(a trademark of Sony "gaming" products).

In other words, posts from console fanboys shouldn't have made one glad to give up console gaming, as one can just ignore those types of people and still enjoy their hobby.

Gamers already know what can be done with touchpads, putting one on the backside of a handheld looks to be overrated and underused(a trademark of Sony "gaming" products).

@ArsenicSteel, I don't know who you talked to then. Nobody that I knew was talking about Nintendo's innovation back then. They saw the failure of the N64 (due mainly to the cartridge format), the... um... underperformance of the GameCube, due to its lack of 3rd-party support, and the GBA, a nice little system that had not caused awe at launch due to its lack of backlight (fixed with the SP), and was mainly a dumping ground for upgraded GB franchises, downgraded console franchises, and SNES ports, but not any "serious" games.

I see the specs, and all the stuff that they added, and I think that they have given developers a great sandbox to play in.

hatereater wrote:

In other words, posts from console fanboys shouldn't have made one glad to give up console gaming, as one can just ignore those types of people and still enjoy their hobby.

Fanboyism was annoying but I didn't give up console gaming because of fanboyism, I gave it up because it just didn't appeal to me anymore commitment wise. I used to own a NES, SNES, and an Atari 2600 and was led to believe that they were the be all, end all of video gaming only to be proven wrong time and time again. The systems and cartridges wound up gathering dust in my basement and no longer appealed to me to come back to them because I just had better things to do. I traded in my old consoles to a game trading business in Winnipeg and have never regretted it since. However, I still like to read news about new innovations in gaming from time to time because it's technology and I always find technology a thing of interest.

I just hope it plays video games, and not just downloads again. That would stink.

@ArsenicSteel, I don't know who you talked to then. Nobody that I knew was talking about Nintendo's innovation back then. They saw the failure of the N64 (due mainly to the cartridge format), the... um... underperformance of the GameCube, due to its lack of 3rd-party support, and the GBA, a nice little system that had not caused awe at launch due to its lack of backlight (fixed with the SP), and was mainly a dumping ground for upgraded GB franchises, downgraded console franchises, and SNES ports, but not any "serious" games.

This doesn't even make any damn sense. How can something look overrated and underused, the latter being especially nonsensical seeing as we've only been shown a couple of games on the system(which actually seem to use it quite well).

I see the specs, and all the stuff that they added, and I think that they have given developers a great sandbox to play in.