I’ve been into videogames since I was a kid. I never got into handhelds though. I bought a Gameboy a few years back but that ended up just collecting dust after a few months - For the most part, the problem was that the games just werent anything special.
For the most part, they were quite older titles (Stuff you’ve played on the “old nintendo”, and games that had no real depth to them - they were more repeated levels you’d replay to pass the time.
With the PSP, SONY Has finally shown that portables can be so much more.
I imported my PSP From japan shortly after the release, so any of this can change between now and the official UK/US Releases.
First thing first, the system looks amazing. Its got a huge screen (4.3” widescreen) with a very bright backlight to it (you can change it to 3 or 4 different brightness levels), much brighter (And the screen much clearer) than Nintendos' newly released Nintendo DS.
The screen is very scratch resistant - Apparently even steel wool won’t scratch it.. It is VERY prone to fingerprints, so you’ll be wiping it off after just about every use!
Next up, the graphics. The first game released for it (Ridge Racers) looks absolutely amazing, Definately PS2-Quality, and I can only imagine what types of games will be released years from now when they finally get ahold of the true power.
The PSP has 2 speakers on the lower portion of the unit, which do a good job, but adding headphones makes it a much crisper, quality sounding experience.
The PSP Games come on miniature discs (Slightly smaller than the gamecube, but with a larger data capacity (1.8G) which come in little protective cases (Much like SONY Mini Discs if you’ve ever seen or used them).
The games pop into the back of the system - a touch of the eject button up top opens the disc tray which is much like that of a Cassette Tape player on a home stereo.
Speaking of Mp3s, the system is a full fledged Media player on its own!
You do need to purchase memory-stick-duo’s to take advantage of these, and they come at a cost. Mine cost me $80 US for 512MB (A 1GB One can be found for a little over $100 US), this is sony’s proprietary media format used in their cameras, PDA’s, etc.. so if you have one already, you can use that one still.
Besides MP3s, the PSP Also has a photo album and video player (You must convert all videos to MPEG4 format (.mp4) using either sony’s encoder ((1000 yen) A little under $10 US) or a free one called 3gpp (The difference being the sony encoder will encode all videos and place them directly on the PSP For you, the other you’ll need to manually drag and drop them).
as to the video converting of PSP, it’s necessary to mention a good kit for this: Xilisoft PSP Video Converter
It is a powerful PSP converter, PSP movie converter software which helps you convert video to PSP movie (Sony PlayStation Portable MP4 video format, PSP AVC H.264 video), PS3 Video MPEG-4 (480p, 720p, 1080i). The PSP Video Converter is capable of converting almost all popular video ,worth to have a try.
Additionally, if you have a sony camera, put the Memory Stick Duo in there, snap some pictures, and when you put it back in the PSP, the photos will appear in their own specific folder!
And now ,Sony has released PS3 for its newest product, although I still use the old one , i look forward to get one someday, it’s said the new PS3 is a new design which is totally different from the old PSP ,really very cool
when ps1 was out and i was like 10, there were some kids that brought those gameboys to school, i thought they were awsome! games like donkey kong i thought was cool and pokemon, im not sure why i liked it tho.
captain wrote:
PSP- worth the money? I’d say YES it is
I’ve been into videogames since I was a kid. I never got into handhelds though. I bought a Gameboy a few years back but that ended up just collecting dust after a few months - For the most part, the problem was that the games just werent anything special.
For the most part, they were quite older titles (Stuff you’ve played on the “old nintendo”, and games that had no real depth to them - they were more repeated levels you’d replay to pass the time.
With the PSP, SONY Has finally shown that portables can be so much more.
I imported my PSP From japan shortly after the release, so any of this can change between now and the official UK/US Releases.
First thing first, the system looks amazing. Its got a huge screen (4.3” widescreen) with a very bright backlight to it (you can change it to 3 or 4 different brightness levels), much brighter (And the screen much clearer) than Nintendos' newly released Nintendo DS.
The screen is very scratch resistant - Apparently even steel wool won’t scratch it.. It is VERY prone to fingerprints, so you’ll be wiping it off after just about every use!
Very well put my friend and I also agree that PSP is way worth its money I mean the games have soo much in them and the system has so much to do on it that you will never be bord, its a PS2 is a portable system practitcly with more!!!!!!
, and games that had no real depth to them - they were more repeated levels you’d replay to pass the time.
The first game released for it (Ridge Racers) looks absolutely amazing, Definately PS2-Quality, and I can only imagine what types of games will be released years from now when they finally get ahold of the true power.
) which come in little protective cases (Much like SONY Mini Discs if you’ve ever seen or used them).
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