one word... N-Gage.mattttherman3 said:Instead of this, why don't they just make their phone capable of playing these games, or make the psp2 able to make phone calls.
That's the PS Phone. Not the PSP2. After the N-Gage, no-one's silly enough to dedicate a phone as a gaming device. Apple are succeeding as their platform is iOS.WaffleGod said:*cough*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSfpArW7Ic4&feature=player_embedded
You guys late for the rumor party or what?
Blu-ray drives now days are less than $50, burners are less than $150, thing have come way down since the PS3 was released. 7200RPM 500GB 2.5inch HDDs are less than $100 and 7200RPM 1.5TB 3.5's are less than $100, SSDs are still expensive as hell.BrunDeign said:But how much? Original PS3 cost about 600 dollars. Cut out the bluray and possibly the hard drive (who knows how big the hard drive could be) and how much would that leave? I doubt cutting out the bluray alone would cut the price in half.megs1120 said:The PSP2 likely won't have a bluray drive, which would cut a giant chunk out of the unit's price.BrunDeign said:Wait. A PSP that has graphics similar to those of a PS3?
People are already complaining about how much the 3DS MIGHT cost, what makes people think a PSP with PS3 graphics will go for anything less or, for that matter, the same? To run graphics similar to the PS3's they'd need to have a steeper cost than the 3DS's to support the production values.
I read somewhere that they where gonna put the games on memory sticks instead of just pure digital download but I can't remember where, not sure if it's true or someone didn't get there facts right which is hope is true. Pure digital would be completely retarded and they shoulda learned that by GO already.Therumancer said:Actually the original PSP didn't fail, it simply didn't succeed to the point of the DS. I think people confuse "not being #1" with failure, it sold millions of units apparently.
Now, the problem with the PSP2 is that it's pretty much pushing the elements of the PSP that failed. Apparently the system is not going to use any physical media like UMDs and rely totally on online digital downloads. A sound desician from Sony's perspective due to all the money that can be made that way, but not a sound desician from the perspective of the users, who want their physical media. You look at the PSPGo which WAS an epic failure and you can see the problems with their strategy.
The UMD also failed apparently because it's frankly a very annoying format for portable discs, both being relatively fragile, and fairly bulky. I think the DS succeeded in part because it had physical media in a format small enough and durable enough where you could put 4 games lin a little case and stick it in your pocket alongside the DS and then effectibely have 4 games with you. Both the PSP and it's media are bulky enough where they are far less easily portable, etc... That said it still did fairly well in it's original form.
To really succeed I think what Sony needs to do actually is find a differant physical media format, and reduce the overall size of their portable. From what I've seen of the PSP-2 it does neither of these things, and will probably fail due to allgedly being entirely digital like the GO was due to there being few customer benefits, the trade off of not having to carry media disks/chips/cartridges overcome by having no physical product that you have control over.
Would be hard to sale a handheld that costs 300$ or more. Especialy if the PS3's cheaper then it by the time it's released.BrunDeign said:Wait. A PSP that has graphics similar to those of a PS3?
People are already complaining about how much the 3DS MIGHT cost, what makes people think a PSP with PS3 graphics will go for anything less or, for that matter, the same? To run graphics similar to the PS3's they'd need to have a steeper cost than the 3DS's to support the production values.