PSP
The night before we flew to Miami I went to Pacific Place to buy Laurel some Bose Noise Reducing Headphones just like mine. On the way out I decided to stop by the gaming store just to see if they had any PSPs. I've been drooling over the PSP ever since I first saw pictures of it a few months ago and I knew I'd eventually get one. But I'm not the kind of person to go out and buy something right away, especially something as frivilous as a portable gaming system. But, I was thinking that since I'd be spending a lot of time on flights from Seattle to Miami, Miami to Indy, and Indy to Seattle, that it might be a good thing to have when my brain can't take any more reading. As a side note, never take only two serious non-fiction books (Godel's Proof and Anti-Intellectualism in American Life) to a beach vacation. While it may seem like a good idea at first, you don't want to spend your entire time on the beach thinking about esoteric meta-mathmatics and the subtle effects of our puritan ancestors on our psyche. So, I stopped by the gaming store and didn't see a PSP display, I was sorta pissed, why would I spend $300 on an item that I've never seen. So I told the guy there that I might just buy a PSP if I first got to see it. So he went in the back and brought out his personal PSP and showed Ridge Racer and a video for me to see how nice the screen was. I was pretty frickin' impressed. So I ended up buying it with Ridge Racer.
The screen is nothing short of amazing. Everything looks good on it. When you watch a movie on the PSP it looks like a miniature version of an expensive flat screen monitor. The decision to go with a wide screen format was great. All new TV shows and movies are going to be on this format. The battery life was pretty impressive too, the PSP lasted way longer than I needed it to for my 8 hours of flights on the way back. The graphics of the games are pretty amazing for a portable, but they aren't at the level of the PS2 yet. I think that the PSP is capable of having better graphics than the PS2 but it might take a while for game developers to get comfortable with the architecture, just as it took a while for PS2 games to get to where they are today. What I didn't expect to here was that Sony is intentionally keeping the CPU and bus speeds at 2/3s their max. I guess we'll be seeing much better graphics in the future. The feature that I thought was really amazing was the inclusion of 802.11b wireless. It's becoming ubiquitous. I thought is was really cool that I could just turn my PSP on, click over the the wireless access icon, and it automatically connected to my hotel's wireless connection and checked for a firmware update. The only thing that I'm dissapointed in is that I can't use the wireless connection to move files back and forth between my computer and the PSP. But, the USB port works pretty well. I just plug it into my computer at it shows up as a removable drive. I then just drag movies, music, and images over to certain directories and they'll show up on my PSP. It comes with a 32 MB card which is good enough for saving games but definitely not enought to store music and videos so I just ordered a gig sized card. Even that's not large enough to bring out the full potential of the PSP. Wouldn't it be really cool if you could hook up your 60 gig iPod to your PSP and then store a shitload of movies and TV shows for long flights. Even though the PSP is great for games I really see the potential for the PSP to be a platform for a lot of other things that would require its awesome screen.
I suspect that non-gamers will eventually buy PSPs for its many other uses.
The screen is nothing short of amazing. Everything looks good on it. When you watch a movie on the PSP it looks like a miniature version of an expensive flat screen monitor. The decision to go with a wide screen format was great. All new TV shows and movies are going to be on this format. The battery life was pretty impressive too, the PSP lasted way longer than I needed it to for my 8 hours of flights on the way back. The graphics of the games are pretty amazing for a portable, but they aren't at the level of the PS2 yet. I think that the PSP is capable of having better graphics than the PS2 but it might take a while for game developers to get comfortable with the architecture, just as it took a while for PS2 games to get to where they are today. What I didn't expect to here was that Sony is intentionally keeping the CPU and bus speeds at 2/3s their max. I guess we'll be seeing much better graphics in the future. The feature that I thought was really amazing was the inclusion of 802.11b wireless. It's becoming ubiquitous. I thought is was really cool that I could just turn my PSP on, click over the the wireless access icon, and it automatically connected to my hotel's wireless connection and checked for a firmware update. The only thing that I'm dissapointed in is that I can't use the wireless connection to move files back and forth between my computer and the PSP. But, the USB port works pretty well. I just plug it into my computer at it shows up as a removable drive. I then just drag movies, music, and images over to certain directories and they'll show up on my PSP. It comes with a 32 MB card which is good enough for saving games but definitely not enought to store music and videos so I just ordered a gig sized card. Even that's not large enough to bring out the full potential of the PSP. Wouldn't it be really cool if you could hook up your 60 gig iPod to your PSP and then store a shitload of movies and TV shows for long flights. Even though the PSP is great for games I really see the potential for the PSP to be a platform for a lot of other things that would require its awesome screen.
I suspect that non-gamers will eventually buy PSPs for its many other uses.
2 Comments:
Slacker!
what is the big deal is with the Psp. its Processor is Lacking @ best, the Screen Res is low,it has Virtualy no internal storage whatsoever. the only thing going For it is the fact that it is backed by sony and they here deep Pockets. If you want a good unit get the tapwave Zodiac Using Palm os Its starting to gain more games better support although it needs builtin wifi and its more VersitaL
-Rastlin
Post a Comment
<< Home