I became interested when you mentioned Jak & Daxter. I've not bought The Lost Frontier, but it doesn't seem to be that fun in comparison. | |
I got to say that the PSP's games are incredibly expensive compared to the gaming experience that they give. | |
There was once a time when the PSP and DS were at close competition for the handheld gaming market. I say this is impressive as no other company ever has managed to do that to a Nintendo handheld. I say hats off to the PSP, and if its lifespan ends soon, then I personally think it had a damn good run, and contrary to popular opinion, a great games library. | |
In absolute terms I think the PSP is/was a great machine, I just think it suffered from too many flaws like the loading times and lack of a second thumbstick. It would have been better than the DS if they had put more thought into it. Potentially the games on the PSP are far better but things like ridiculous loading times (with great frequency) really ruin it. When it comes to the PSP Go, I think it's pretty much the death knell for the system. The bottom line is simply that Sony is mentally on another planet. Frequently I wanted to call them stupid, but the game systems and such themselves are of high quality, and defy easily defining the creators as idiots. From where I'm sitting it seems to me that a lot of companies like the idea of being able to distribute media digitally and increase their profits by cutting out the need for shipping, distribution, and physical packaging/manufacturing. The problem is that those profits are dependant on consumers embracing something that isn't in their best interests, for all intents and purposes removing a lot of the power they currently possess, in exchange for pretty much nothing. Sony seems to be missing a "step" in the conquest of digital media where they somehow gain public acceptance. Now the standard dirty practice in this case is to cut costs and such until such a time as all the physical media and brick and mortar stores have disappeared. Then with a stranglehold and no manufacturing taking place they raise the prices. A Wal*Mart type approach to business. Sony pretty much assumes their customers are stupid (not just here, but in general), releasing a product intended for a "conquered" market that does not exist, and on some levels more or less showing exactly why we don't want digitally distributed media. Right now the only digital service that seems like it has anything like the right idea on how to get supporters is STEAM, but even so STEAM still sells their games for pretty much what they would cost in a store, unless they are on sale. Pretty much the PSP Go is the kind of thing you kick a captive audience with while they are down to make sure they stay there. As far as the idea of a USB drive, all I can say is "why bother". The idea is to have a portal gaming system. If I need an archaic disc drive perepheral (sort of like back in the days of the football like C-64), it's not going to be very portable. If they come up with a data transfer device (onto the Go's hard drive) I'd imagine Sony would modify the firmware to stop it in short order because half the entire point seems to be to hold the userbase at gunpoint to get them to buy the same games a second time (which is part of what makes it so lulzworthy to begin with). Really, I think they need to put a bullet in the head of the PSP Go and continue to support the UMD format, releasing a new version of the PSP with a more powerful system to reduce the load times and such. Given the greater quality this would create if they could reduce the prices down to the DS level I'd imagine they could compete more effectively. | |
Despite all of the PSP's struggles, I still say that I have to purchase one; if only to play the Tactics sequel and the Prinny game. I wouldn't mind getting my mitts on this game as well, though. | |
It's pretty good. As long as you don't expect it to be a masterpiece it'll be fun. | |
I bought TLF for my Ps2. Wasn't as good as the other games in the series, but it was alright. | |
Yes, the PsP has struggled alot in it's lifetime, considering it's competition. But it's been the most successful non nintendo handheld, so that's gotta give it some credit. I'm still glad I bought one. | |
I'm just glad Jak and Dax are back. I haven't bought the game yet (too many other games still waiting on the shelf) but Jak 2&3 are really great games imho and I'm happy the characters are still around, unlike a certain black masked thief I would like to see return some day. | |
I have a PSP that I have not even turned on in almost a year. Useless. The games are generally horrid, in genres that I don't appreciate and every peripheral for it (games included) are way too expensive. | |
I just bought a PSPgo a few days ago, and I couldn't be happier with the thing. Of course, I've never owned a PSP, so I don't have the issue of owning a bunch of UMDs that I'd need to re-purchase, but that's mainly because I just always considered the PSP to be too big and clunky-looking for me to carry around comfortably (and without drawing some raised eyebrows, I'm not exactly a little kid anymore). The Go looks like an iPhone with extra buttons, and it's not "weird" at all for someone my age to be putzing around on one of those. It's sleek, stylish, keeps all the games I want on it without having to lug around a bunch of extra discs, it's everything I want in a portable gaming system. As for the price of the thing: I do think Sony is being incredibly stupid by not dropping prices to undercut store prices. Maybe they're worried that if they did that, it would hurt their relationship with game retailers (read: Gamestop) for the future. In any case, I haven't resold a single game since my old Dreamcast (which I got like $10 for...might be why I don't resell games anymore), so that part doesn't really affect me. The $250 vs $175 pricetag would have been largely eaten up by me buying a memory card or two for the PSP3000 so that I wouldn't have to lug UMDs around. So really, the main price differential comes down to buying used games vs. always buying games full price. I don't plan on having a huge library, and the library that I will have will mostly be comprised of big titles like LBP, which I don't see dropping in price in stores soon, and older game collections from Sega and the PSOne, which I don't think you can buy in stores anyway. I don't expect I'll pay more than $50-$100 extra for my games, which is a surcharge I'm fine with if it means I'm using the smaller PSP that I'll whip out more often, and I don't have to go to the store to buy a game I want. So, yeah, call me crazy or a fanboi or whatever, but I bought a PSPgo and I like it. | |
I thought it was coming to the PS2 as well? But PSP hasn't seen so many good games, but Daxter was one of them. I think it could really work, though I'd rather buy it for the Playstation 2 than the PSP (but I don't own one of either). | |
Yeah. Very few games seem to last much longer than maybe 20 hours, maximum (Thats doing everything in them in most cases) I mean, they are exceptions, but, not many. They do need to lower the price, or increase content somehow. | |
Did you just say the Lost Frontier was good? I can't understand that. | |
I hate the new "Download Only" PSP. It makes NO sense. | |
That makes me wanna buy a psp but it really is not that good in my eyes. Jak and Dax when will you come back to the console!!! | |
you havn't played monster hunter freedom unite yet OT: I still think the PSP has so much potential just like the ps1 to the n64 (but this time the PSP has better graphical capabilities) the psp uses discs instead of cartridges allowing far more to be fit into that UMD than one could possibly imagine in the DS cartridge, and the PSP is also a much more powerful system but its up against someone who dominated the hand held market with the gameboy since as far back as I can remember! but I trust that the PSP will make it out as a damn good hand held system one of these days. | |
The Lost Frontier lost any chance it had of me buying it (at least at full price) as soon as that stupid Dark Daxter part of the demo came on. It was completely not fun to play at all, and made little sense. It was as if the game assumed I already knew what I was doing despite this being a brand new thing in the entire Jak series. What were all those meters and how do I refill them? I just ended up holding Triangle through the whole thing until the part where the demo ended, leaving me feeling completely unimpressed. Between that, Secret Agent Clank, and Ratchet and Clank: Size Matters, I'm really starting to think that the people at High Impact Games have absolutely no clue what they're doing. | |
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