Never said I was unbiased. I wasn't biased when I bought a PSP the day it came out and waited years for a game worth playing to come out, which never happened, and then sat back and watched flawed revision after flawed revision trickle out. I'm biased now after blowing a ton of money on a console that isn't worth it's weight in... well anything.
Then it's hard to take your opinions about this seriously when you admit you're biased from the start.
You're angry at Sony because you bought a PSP on the first day then spent a lot of money on games you didn't enjoy? Maybe you should be angry at yourself for buying it so impulsively then not researching or renting any of those games you bought. If you're going to spend money so haphazardly then you shouldn't be so bitter about it afterwards...
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I didn't say they'd be hard to reach, my concern was with their proximity to the slide-up screen, it seems to me that the screen will get in the way & make gripping the console quite awkward. I don't like anything impeding my grip, especially with triggers.
What you said was "L&R are going to be a bitch to get at.".. I don't see how having something in front of the unit would possibly impede access to the triggers. Do you hold your fingers on the triggers such that they require being jutting out in front of the handheld?
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which handhelds (besides the wiz) are those? To me the controls seem quite a bit more cramped on this iteration of the psp than most other handhelds. I'll have to wait to have one in hand to judge, but even that seems unlikely.
How CAN they be more cramped? The unit has more than the length of the screen, you can tell that it's only so much less wide than the original PSPs. But the controls get this whole width to themselves. Your criticisms make no sense at all. If you look at the pictures you can see that there's plenty of room from the edges of the unit to the controls themselves. Yes, I was talking about the Wiz, but also the GP2X's face buttons have bothered me, and even the DS. And I used a grip on my PSP, although it's not that bad without it (unless you want to use the nub which is very poorly placed for me)
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Big names don't mean crap to me, good games do, and none of said big names have put out a game worth playing in the past 4 years or so. People are sheep, they will buy anything that's shiny & new, there's a whole store chock full of shiny shit in the mall near me. It's big name companies that have ruined the game industry, EA especially. I wanted to like it, i really did, but without software support it's just shiny crap. It's dead because developers won't touch it & the only games getting made are horrid watered down ports.
You know, just because you don't have the same tastes as others doesn't mean you should insult them. I'm sorry you were so burned but I know people that regard PSP as their favorite system and I don't consider them "sheep." I personally don't care about the game selection, but I don't like a lot of games that are popular. I'm not going to throw a tantrum over it though.
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My criticism lies in their extreme lack of foresight, ignorance & their constantly rushed knee-jerk reactions in the form of hardware updates. First I bought all these UMDs, Then I bought all these memory sticks that nothing else uses, and now in the new iteration i can't use either of those even if i wanted to. I only care about using them because I paid money for them & their entire existence is now negated. Sure you're supposed to download games, but like a lot of people have previously said, then you are locked into paying what sony wants without the guarantee of a physical backup.
I guess you had the same lack of foresight Sony did, since you bought PSP the day it was released you must have thought it was a sound idea to include UMDs on it. It was a risky venture that seemed like a worthwhile gamble at the time. It didn't pay off. These things happen (see the reverse where CDs won against carts)
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This latest revision is just a reaction to all the press apple is getting over the whole game downloads thing and Nintendo's latest DS revision. They're trying to get ahead of the curve they've already missed by putting their foot in the door and rushing a half-baked update to a console without substance to the market. In this economy an intermediary device just isn't going to fly. It would be one thing if the support was there, but knowing sony, its just not going to happen, and if it does it'll be too little too late.
Maybe, but is what Sony's doing really different from what Nintendo's doing just because Nintendo got DSi out first? Is it less of an "intermediary" device? If it fails then oh well, their loss. You say you're amused by this but you just seem pissed off.
Personally, when I see news about this handheld the first thing I care about is talking about how well it will function, not how much I hate Sony for such and such. If you want to talk about that then fine, but you're also giving a lot of "opinions" about how poor the design is but without any real justifications.
