DO NOT buy a PSP (important read)

[Arnobius]

Just FYI, animeheritic, pretty much EVERYTHING is more expensive here in the bay area. And yeah, when you start looking at buying a console at SUNCOAST (end ESPECIALLY games) you'll pay WAY more. Well, at least the one in valco was way over priced...

Are you also a Bay Area resident too?
The prices for opening week on PSP were pretty much uniform, even at Best Buy which is usually $10 cheaper than Suncoast.

[Mr. SmartyPants]

Easier alternative to all the memory cards, use reliable cartridges with built in storage.

I have Gameboy games dating mid 90s and SNES games with perfectly functioning memory despite all the batterings they've taken.

yes, but eventually all cartriages will loose their ability to save

or is that just with old nes/snes games? because the save feature is backed by a battery so eventually the save function will die out... but that takes practically years to occur

[Mithrandir]

lol. I thought everyone knew oldphil lives in silicon valley. Sorry...

[Arnobius]

lol. I thought everyone knew oldphil lives in silicon valley. Sorry...

D'OH! Right there on your location!

[Fsiphskilm]

Well the sa

[Azier the Swordsman]

I might get one for Infected... I'm a sucker for zombie games. =P

[Fsiphskilm]

Sadly I am

[desperado]

volt some of that list isnt right
tomb raider is supposedly getting a incarnation for the psp. dont look to much into it though after the abysmal failure of angle of darkness.

and thats ff11 thats online not 12, 12 is coming this summer.
on the thing of the companies being sick of sony... they are just migrating to the system that is dominating the market. xbox is king right now with ps2 being 2nd inline for royalty and the gc is a powerfull member of the court. always always have developers flocked to the system with the most power/popularity. look at ff back in the day. a nintendo only company for a long time, ups and moves to psx until recently with there spread to the largest audience possible and realease a game a month strategy.

oh and about the hardrive, part of the reason the slacked that of was people tended to get the pc version on ff11 due to the steep price of the hardrive for the ps2. i can see why it wasnt that important to them to make the new ps2, plus the ps3 launch is on the horizon so the new ps2 is similar to what ford did with the 04 mustang cobra, gave a super powerfull car to keep people interested until the sleek new car was realesed. comon market tatic to revamp a old thing to keep it selling until the new thing is released. the whole thing with the new ps2 is that it cuts down on size and such. the thing is about the size of a book! i dont see quite how they could put a monster like the ps2 hardrive on something of that size..

[Cognitive Gear]

That's all part of Sony's way of doing buisness. That is, making themselves LOOK better than they actually are. They show the PStwo and the average consumers =

O.o

"How did they make it so small? That is amazing!"

When, in truth, it really isn't that amazing when you take the system specs combined with the lack of HD capabability. The original PS2 could have been much smaller than it was, had sony not included all that extra space for the HD "expansion".

[Azier the Swordsman]

Sadly I am too. I hate them and love them at the same time.

Shatterheart will tell you. I love zombie games but I hate when they are unoriginal or clones of other games. Cold Fear... I'm willing to try, looks very nice.

Cold Fear is going to be extremely awesome. Correct me if I'm wrong.... isn't it a remake of a Saturn game?

[Fsiphskilm]

nope... s

[starwarsboy90]

what a pity. RE4 is a pretty cool game

[Mr. SmartyPants]

nope... shouldn't be.

The maker of Alone in the Dark (the first one) for PC is the same maker of Cold Fear.

Sadly Cold Fear resembles RE4 so much that people are brushing it off as a clone.

yeah i saw some footage

theres actually footage of it at http://www.mega64.com (some blood)

[Fsiphskilm]

WOAH...

[Hitokiri]

I just have a PS and that works like a charm for bout 3 years now. I can not play it for 8 months and go to play it and it works perfectly.

But besides that I don't plan on (ever) purchasing PSP. I don't like handheld systems.

[Solid Ronin]

Interseting...Buninesses do things to make money..My God!

....I had my Ps2 since April 3 or 4 years back...Its never had a problem..In fact the only problem with it is the disc try but thats my borthers fault.

So yes IO think ill abandon Sony what have they ever done for me...oh..wait..The make good hardwear.

And Shatterheart I dont think Volt ever left the consoles...At least I didn't.

*dreams of having a PSP with Metal Gear Ac!d

Dead or Alive (1-2 games on sony system) now switched to Xbox

Dead or Alive switched to Xbox cause Itagaki goes with which ever system is more powerful.

[Shao Feng-Li]

I think I'll stick with my ever faithful GBA.

[Scribs]

Ive got a Game boy color, and havn't even thought of upgrading.

[Kenshin17]

Ok my ebbed rage combined with boredom has allowed me to post my opinion.

Here is my take on the PSP: Its like my laptop. Its built for power. My laptop gets about an hour of battery life. But its got a P4 3.2 a 17" 1680x1050 LCD and four cooling fans. I am amazed it lasts as long as it does! No duh the PSP has low battery life. Its got dual proccessors(if I remember correctly) and a high rez LCD. Lets not even mention the disk drive. It runs hot...I would be suprised, seriously, if it didn't. Cram that much power in that small a space and you have a space heater. My laptop is the same way. The PSP will find its place among those who want its power. I personally would want a DS simply because it can play GBA games and DS games, and the touch screen is cool. Do I think the PSP sucks though, no. Its just gonna have a diffrent costomer base. Want battery life and high portability, get a DS. Want raw power thats also portable, get a PSP. Its that simple.

As to Sony making defective products, that guy reads to many conspiricy mags. I have a Sony CD player that I have dropped (repeatedly) and its still works great. Its the best CD player I have had. I would buy Sony over many brands. The PS2 is the best console far as I'm concerned.

Thats my 2c

[Shao Feng-Li]

I've had my Sony Walkman for years. The hatch door wore out though a few months ago and falls of all the time, but the thing never skips!

[glitch1501]

No duh the PSP has low battery life.

didnt desparado say that his psp has never gotten below 5 hours battery life on page 4 or 5?

[Solid Ronin]

Ok..I just read more of that and now I really wannna buy a PSP... if for no other reason than not listening to those people...The producer of Evil and Devil May cry called me a fool screw him...I'll play keep buying Sony products as long as they keep making system that carry good games...Once again i've had my ps2 since 4 or 5 years ago and only now is it starting to show problems and most of that is due to my brother.