Play Station Portable (A.K.A) Possibilities Unlimited !!!!
Thursday, February 22, 2007
SONY, the name says it all!!! Or does it? That’s something that’s always debatable.
The PS1 really brought about a revolution in the world of gaming, but then Man always wants more and better. So out came the XBOX, whoop!!! And did Sony stop, no way out came the PS2 (I just love this console. It was only after I bought this marvel did my pocket feel a lot better, cos I never did need to constantly keep updating my computer to play the latest games :) ) Microsoft decided to give it right back , and Bang !!!! XBOX 360, It’s still being constantly update, to fight back against Sony’s PS3.
That’s a brief glimpse of the console war between Sony & Microsoft ; Or is it ??? I did miss out on Little chap, who came out somewhere in between the PS2 & the PS3. All of you put your hands together for the Play Station Portable ( PSP).
This device is seriously a marvel. My salutes are all directed towards Shin'ichi Ogasawara, the subsidiary of Sony Corporation, who first designed the PSP. The PSP is a perfect & complete personal multimedia device that one can dream off.
Things it can do, Loads of stuff!!!
Play Video’s and full length Movies
Play high quality audio, supporting the MP3 & WMA formats.
A great album to view digital photos.
Record Video
Click Photos.
Play Flash Files
Browse the net
Use it as a GPS
And of course, as the name says it, PLAY Games :)
I’m sure with the constant firmware updates, the possibilities seem infinite!!!
I simply enjoy watching movies when I am lying on my bed in the night, it’s so comfortable & so personalized. I feel like it’s my own theater. The music being awesome, with a FM transmitter attached to the earphone jack, my car rocks with the beat of the music, when I tune to the frequency of the transmitter. If I do need to buy a new GPS receiver for my car, that a whooping 10000Rs for me. The PSP lets me use it as a GPS with an small additional accessory that costs me less that 2000Rs. The games are awesome. GTA tops my list of favorites. Thanks so much Rockstar.
There is one thing that makes me really irritated with the PSP. Any guesses ??? I’m sure any PSP user would share this with me about what I hate about it, The UMD. Sony’s once again done it, made a fool of itself, introducing a new standard of storage & then keeping it closed. The format seems to by dying a slow but steady death. They are exorbitantly priced, and when it comes to movies on the UMD, a DVD’s seems to have everything that the UMD has to offer & more. The only advantage that I see is the portability that it offers.
Mem sticks Pro duo, are so expensive, it seems crazy that these guys offer you a optical drive & don’t give you media or a burner to burn your music & pictures on it Huh !!! Probably some Japanese marketing strategy that they have up their sleeve. Most stores in the US have already pulled off UMD movies from their shelf & the ones that still have them, seem to have offers where , you buy one & get the other one free !!!!
Well I don’t really wanna go on criticizing the UMD on & on, cos I’m quite sure there is loads & loads of stuff on the net with criticisms heaped on the UMD, that if I had to make one straight line with all the criticisms, then probably the circumference of the earth would seem microscopic :)
What about homebrew & iso’s??? Well that’s something that quite sensitive, that’s better left alone. Cos if I do support it or not, there goanna be a lot of comment s both in favor of it & against it.
I personally feel that both Sony & people who’ve made homebrew possible ( Dark_Alex, Noobz & all the other great ones) deserve a huge applaud. Progress is going to be there only if there’s a challenge & that’s what the great ones give Sony :)
Other things that I don’t really liked about Sony & really appreciated with Microsoft, was their target for the market in India. There are loads of PSP freaks here. Thanks to once again Sony’s dumb marketing strategies, people in the subcontinent are forced to buy their consoles from markets in US, Europe & Japan. Infact Sony India’s website, which hosts the section for gaming is so slow to even open, that makes my blood boil. The XBOX’s there in every store in any mall that you can enter. (I probably may just switch to a XBOX if Sony does not change it’s marketing strategy in India)
There is a great site called http://www.yourpsp.in/ for people in the subcontinent. I am quite sure that its way more organized and dedicated to the console than Sony’s website itself.
The PS1 really brought about a revolution in the world of gaming, but then Man always wants more and better. So out came the XBOX, whoop!!! And did Sony stop, no way out came the PS2 (I just love this console. It was only after I bought this marvel did my pocket feel a lot better, cos I never did need to constantly keep updating my computer to play the latest games :) ) Microsoft decided to give it right back , and Bang !!!! XBOX 360, It’s still being constantly update, to fight back against Sony’s PS3.
That’s a brief glimpse of the console war between Sony & Microsoft ; Or is it ??? I did miss out on Little chap, who came out somewhere in between the PS2 & the PS3. All of you put your hands together for the Play Station Portable ( PSP).
This device is seriously a marvel. My salutes are all directed towards Shin'ichi Ogasawara, the subsidiary of Sony Corporation, who first designed the PSP. The PSP is a perfect & complete personal multimedia device that one can dream off.
Things it can do, Loads of stuff!!!
Play Video’s and full length Movies
Play high quality audio, supporting the MP3 & WMA formats.
A great album to view digital photos.
Record Video
Click Photos.
Play Flash Files
Browse the net
Use it as a GPS
And of course, as the name says it, PLAY Games :)
I’m sure with the constant firmware updates, the possibilities seem infinite!!!
I simply enjoy watching movies when I am lying on my bed in the night, it’s so comfortable & so personalized. I feel like it’s my own theater. The music being awesome, with a FM transmitter attached to the earphone jack, my car rocks with the beat of the music, when I tune to the frequency of the transmitter. If I do need to buy a new GPS receiver for my car, that a whooping 10000Rs for me. The PSP lets me use it as a GPS with an small additional accessory that costs me less that 2000Rs. The games are awesome. GTA tops my list of favorites. Thanks so much Rockstar.
There is one thing that makes me really irritated with the PSP. Any guesses ??? I’m sure any PSP user would share this with me about what I hate about it, The UMD. Sony’s once again done it, made a fool of itself, introducing a new standard of storage & then keeping it closed. The format seems to by dying a slow but steady death. They are exorbitantly priced, and when it comes to movies on the UMD, a DVD’s seems to have everything that the UMD has to offer & more. The only advantage that I see is the portability that it offers.
Mem sticks Pro duo, are so expensive, it seems crazy that these guys offer you a optical drive & don’t give you media or a burner to burn your music & pictures on it Huh !!! Probably some Japanese marketing strategy that they have up their sleeve. Most stores in the US have already pulled off UMD movies from their shelf & the ones that still have them, seem to have offers where , you buy one & get the other one free !!!!
Well I don’t really wanna go on criticizing the UMD on & on, cos I’m quite sure there is loads & loads of stuff on the net with criticisms heaped on the UMD, that if I had to make one straight line with all the criticisms, then probably the circumference of the earth would seem microscopic :)
What about homebrew & iso’s??? Well that’s something that quite sensitive, that’s better left alone. Cos if I do support it or not, there goanna be a lot of comment s both in favor of it & against it.
I personally feel that both Sony & people who’ve made homebrew possible ( Dark_Alex, Noobz & all the other great ones) deserve a huge applaud. Progress is going to be there only if there’s a challenge & that’s what the great ones give Sony :)
Other things that I don’t really liked about Sony & really appreciated with Microsoft, was their target for the market in India. There are loads of PSP freaks here. Thanks to once again Sony’s dumb marketing strategies, people in the subcontinent are forced to buy their consoles from markets in US, Europe & Japan. Infact Sony India’s website, which hosts the section for gaming is so slow to even open, that makes my blood boil. The XBOX’s there in every store in any mall that you can enter. (I probably may just switch to a XBOX if Sony does not change it’s marketing strategy in India)
There is a great site called http://www.yourpsp.in/ for people in the subcontinent. I am quite sure that its way more organized and dedicated to the console than Sony’s website itself.
Well to conclude it all, the PSP is one awesome marvel that truly a great mastermind comprehended & made it a reality in time!!!!
Copyright © Dennis D Maliekal
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3 comments:
Real nice post. You have talked about most things, and yet not put in too much details. This way it is easy to read it.
I definitely agree that the UMD is a horrible thing made by sony
UMD Sucks !
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