Originally posted by: ITCHY96
got mine preordered from gamestop already.
Me too ...
3 days and counting.....:beer:
Originally posted by: ITCHY96
got mine preordered from gamestop already.
That's because nintendo portables SUCK and they've totally cornered the market in the past decade! The PSP will put nintendo to shame, and all Nintendo DS owners will rightfully feel like second class citizens.Originally posted by: RagingBITCH
I haven't played a portable in about 5-6 years.
Originally posted by: dguy6789
"what level is the PSP? is it as good as a PS1 graphics/physics wise? or better or worse?"
The PSP is more powerful than the PS2.
Originally posted by: Skoorb
That's because nintendo portables SUCK and they've totally cornered the market in the past decade! The PSP will put nintendo to shame, and all Nintendo DS owners will rightfully feel like second class citizens.Originally posted by: RagingBITCH
I haven't played a portable in about 5-6 years.
early 90's it was not, but nintendo has rested on their laurels, which is why the PSP smokes the living sh*t out of the DS, even though both are released in the same period, and the PSP is not THAT much more expensive.Originally posted by: UpgradeFailure
Originally posted by: Skoorb
That's because nintendo portables SUCK and they've totally cornered the market in the past decade! The PSP will put nintendo to shame, and all Nintendo DS owners will rightfully feel like second class citizens.Originally posted by: RagingBITCH
I haven't played a portable in about 5-6 years.
Wow...yeah, the gameboy was horrible..![]()
Originally posted by: knyghtbyte
Originally posted by: dguy6789
"what level is the PSP? is it as good as a PS1 graphics/physics wise? or better or worse?"
The PSP is more powerful than the PS2.
more powerful than PS2? if thats true then its pointless cuz its on a crappy small screen...lol
Until it's lifelike, you can always use more processing power!Originally posted by: 777php
Originally posted by: knyghtbyte
Originally posted by: dguy6789
"what level is the PSP? is it as good as a PS1 graphics/physics wise? or better or worse?"
The PSP is more powerful than the PS2.
more powerful than PS2? if thats true then its pointless cuz its on a crappy small screen...lol
It may be small but by all reports it is defintely not crappy. Most reviewers found the screen to be incredibly vivid and beautiful to look at.
The battery life is very good according to the things I read. You have a link showing the battery life to be poor? What are your expectations?Originally posted by: AMDZen
With all the problems regarding the PSP, I don't see how anyone can get so excited. Portable gaming machines are about overall portability, and also battery life. From what I hear so far, everyone is in agreement of one thing, the battery life on the PSP suxx.
And after seeing a video of a disc simply flying out of the machine, I was pretty much sure I'd never buy one. But if that wasn't enough, a friend of mine bought one from Japan since he knew they wouldn't be Region Coded (the games) and had the same thing happen to him. He says all you have to do is simply tap around the disc and it can just fly out.
Imagine playing some new Final Fantasy game, for 5 hours strait or something, and having the disc just fly out of the PSP. From what I understand, even if you saved, sometimes the last saved game will get deleted or something when this happens. We'll see if the American units are made any better, chances are they aren't, could even be worse.
Originally posted by: dwell
When they are $149 or less and someone hacks them to play MAME I will get one. $250 is too much. Especially for a Rev A product.
Originally posted by: Nightfall
The battery life is very good according to the things I read. You have a link showing the battery life to be poor? What are your expectations?Originally posted by: AMDZen
With all the problems regarding the PSP, I don't see how anyone can get so excited. Portable gaming machines are about overall portability, and also battery life. From what I hear so far, everyone is in agreement of one thing, the battery life on the PSP suxx.
And after seeing a video of a disc simply flying out of the machine, I was pretty much sure I'd never buy one. But if that wasn't enough, a friend of mine bought one from Japan since he knew they wouldn't be Region Coded (the games) and had the same thing happen to him. He says all you have to do is simply tap around the disc and it can just fly out.
Imagine playing some new Final Fantasy game, for 5 hours strait or something, and having the disc just fly out of the PSP. From what I understand, even if you saved, sometimes the last saved game will get deleted or something when this happens. We'll see if the American units are made any better, chances are they aren't, could even be worse.
As for the disc flying out of the machine, you have a link to the video? I would like to see that.![]()
Originally posted by: AMDZen
Originally posted by: Nightfall
The battery life is very good according to the things I read. You have a link showing the battery life to be poor? What are your expectations?Originally posted by: AMDZen
With all the problems regarding the PSP, I don't see how anyone can get so excited. Portable gaming machines are about overall portability, and also battery life. From what I hear so far, everyone is in agreement of one thing, the battery life on the PSP suxx.
And after seeing a video of a disc simply flying out of the machine, I was pretty much sure I'd never buy one. But if that wasn't enough, a friend of mine bought one from Japan since he knew they wouldn't be Region Coded (the games) and had the same thing happen to him. He says all you have to do is simply tap around the disc and it can just fly out.
Imagine playing some new Final Fantasy game, for 5 hours strait or something, and having the disc just fly out of the PSP. From what I understand, even if you saved, sometimes the last saved game will get deleted or something when this happens. We'll see if the American units are made any better, chances are they aren't, could even be worse.
As for the disc flying out of the machine, you have a link to the video? I would like to see that.![]()
Video Evidence
Review to confirm Evidence
Quote from article above ::
""As to the flying-disc glitch, we were brave enough to use one of our precious PSP units to test the theory. We stabilized the unit with our left hand, turned forward ever so slightly with our right and--SHAZAM!--out the disc popped.""
This has so far happened more then once to my friend, I guess it you barely even tap the disc cover, or even move it slightly, it pops out. He has since had fewer problems (Since he knows its there) but it has still become an issue from time to time.
And lastly, as far as the battery life well ..... just go and find ANY review, whether its IGN, gamespot or what have you. Every review I've read pretty much had the same thing's to say about the PSP's battery life, its crap.
Originally posted by: 777php
Originally posted by: AMDZen
Originally posted by: Nightfall
The battery life is very good according to the things I read. You have a link showing the battery life to be poor? What are your expectations?Originally posted by: AMDZen
With all the problems regarding the PSP, I don't see how anyone can get so excited. Portable gaming machines are about overall portability, and also battery life. From what I hear so far, everyone is in agreement of one thing, the battery life on the PSP suxx.
And after seeing a video of a disc simply flying out of the machine, I was pretty much sure I'd never buy one. But if that wasn't enough, a friend of mine bought one from Japan since he knew they wouldn't be Region Coded (the games) and had the same thing happen to him. He says all you have to do is simply tap around the disc and it can just fly out.
Imagine playing some new Final Fantasy game, for 5 hours strait or something, and having the disc just fly out of the PSP. From what I understand, even if you saved, sometimes the last saved game will get deleted or something when this happens. We'll see if the American units are made any better, chances are they aren't, could even be worse.
As for the disc flying out of the machine, you have a link to the video? I would like to see that.![]()
Video Evidence
Review to confirm Evidence
Quote from article above ::
""As to the flying-disc glitch, we were brave enough to use one of our precious PSP units to test the theory. We stabilized the unit with our left hand, turned forward ever so slightly with our right and--SHAZAM!--out the disc popped.""
This has so far happened more then once to my friend, I guess it you barely even tap the disc cover, or even move it slightly, it pops out. He has since had fewer problems (Since he knows its there) but it has still become an issue from time to time.
And lastly, as far as the battery life well ..... just go and find ANY review, whether its IGN, gamespot or what have you. Every review I've read pretty much had the same thing's to say about the PSP's battery life, its crap.
This IGN article states that at full brightness and volume that they were able to get 3 hours and 32 minutes off a full battery charge. In addition to that they said that it was only necessary to play on low brightness as that was more than adequate for viewing.
If you read on, you can see that the PSP is getting 5+ hours on various other tests with full brightness. However while playing on WiFi the battery life diminishes greatly but, that is to be expected.
Unless you plan on playing your PSP for 5-6 hours more at a time then I really don't see battery life as a problem and if you do just buy another battery.
According to this article Sony has addressed the manufacturing defect causing the X button to function improperly, hopefully they also took steps to fix the UMD problem.
