Personally, I'm not much of a video game enthusiast, but the new PlayStation Portable may turn me into one. Genious combination of technical innovation, marketing, and product design. CNN explores the latter in this review/gallery.
Well, can you do anything else with it besides playing video games? Like watching DVD or playing music... it's a cute little number, but I'm afraid that I just suck at video games. Also, SONY does need to get its sh*t together now and really need to take the lead in "something" in the electronics industry. Just a thought.
Games, at present, are the overwhelming focus of the PSP. Within the next couple of weeks, 24 titles will be available for the system – with 18 on store shelves Thursday. On deck for the coming months is a new "Grand Theft Auto" game built for the PSP. And House hinted the developers behind hit PS2 titles "Jak & Daxter" and "Ratchet & Clank" would announce PSP titles in May at E3, the annual games industry trade show.
But movies and music will play a larger role in the months to come, as well.
"Spider-Man 2" is the only film currently available for the PSP, but Sony (Research) will put five more on the market April 19. Other film studios, including Lions Gate Films and the Walt Disney Co. (Research), have also committed to supporting the PSP's film library.
"By the fall is when we want to have a strong library of UMD movie titles," said House.
Music plans have not been officially unveiled yet.
Reading about the "electronics" industry and Sony's present bad shape reminded me of this excellent article from John Maeda's SIMPLICITY blog about the replacement of electronics by "infotronics" and the rise of Apple thanks to the Ipod. http://weblogs.media.mit.edu/SIMPLICITY/archives/000171.html
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Well, can you do anything else with it besides playing video games? Like watching DVD or playing music... it's a cute little number, but I'm afraid that I just suck at video games. Also, SONY does need to get its sh*t together now and really need to take the lead in "something" in the electronics industry. Just a thought.
yes, you can use it to watch movies and listen to mp3's. read
Games, at present, are the overwhelming focus of the PSP. Within the next couple of weeks, 24 titles will be available for the system – with 18 on store shelves Thursday. On deck for the coming months is a new "Grand Theft Auto" game built for the PSP. And House hinted the developers behind hit PS2 titles "Jak & Daxter" and "Ratchet & Clank" would announce PSP titles in May at E3, the annual games industry trade show.
But movies and music will play a larger role in the months to come, as well.
"Spider-Man 2" is the only film currently available for the PSP, but Sony (Research) will put five more on the market April 19. Other film studios, including Lions Gate Films and the Walt Disney Co. (Research), have also committed to supporting the PSP's film library.
"By the fall is when we want to have a strong library of UMD movie titles," said House.
Music plans have not been officially unveiled yet.
Reading about the "electronics" industry and Sony's present bad shape reminded me of this excellent article from John Maeda's SIMPLICITY blog about the replacement of electronics by "infotronics" and the rise of Apple thanks to the Ipod. http://weblogs.media.mit.edu/SIMPLICITY/archives/000171.html
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