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No-one bought a PSP then yet?
Thought there'd be people in lines.
Had chance to play one a fair bit, and I've got to say, it really is very, very impressive. If you get chance to play on one in the shops, the screen really does blow you away (and attract fingerprints like there's no tomorrow).
Need for speed undergrounds the only game I've had chance to play, and while not really being into racing games, it /is/ very good. Gfx really has to be seen to be believed.
Only thing holding me off from buying on is the price. Really hard to justify it to myself to spend as much as I'll no doubt do to get a portable gaming device. I won't be able to not buy the 1Gb mem stick or a spare battery (nah, stuff it, play it till the battery wears out then switch back to GBA).
So, who's getting one?
posted by Robo @ 11:38 PM
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I'd love to get one but I'm saving up for my wedding (one year today) so I can't really justify it. At least I have my Pocket PC for some portable gaming. Still not bored of Warlords II!
The PSP is lovely, though such a shame that Sony insist on using proprietary formats. UMD I can take (although I wouldn't buy a film on it), but it would be so much better for us consumers if the PSP had an SD card slot instead of memory stick.
ha ha ha!
who HASN'T got one? :)
Steely, Tom, Tilling and Tommo I think all bought one. I've had a play and it is very nice, but I found the controls hurt my hands after a while, as the shoulder buttons seem to be in an awkward position. Steely will tell you more though.
I won't be buying one as its very rare I find myself having the time to play my PS or on the PC. I've still got a gameboy with tetris somewhere thats gathering dust. :)
Plus its another piece of Sony equipment that I vowed I won't buy after my sony PS/Walkman/DVD/PS2/TV fucked up in short spaces of time.
Portable gaming is not a niche I need to fill, a half hour or so of travelling for me is easily whiled away with music and looking out the window; longer than that and a book will fill the gap.
I'm sure they're lovely though...
I will however be buying the new ipod nano. In black. The 4 gig version.
For £130, its a very natty little mp3 player. True, there's better quality on the market, but none are as small, especially with the screen.
Wez
SELL OOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUTTTTTTTTT!
ha ha ha.
Sorry mate. Its either creative, iriver or ipod. The creative Nano (same name) has a radio and line in, but is only 1GB. iriver only go upto a gig as well.
Again, I'm not apples biggest fan, but a 4gig mp3 player for £140 is a bargain, and the sound quality (which was a waeak point for the ipod) has improved since the old HDD based days.
Still, at least I won't be ripping to WMA files like some of us eh Dean? :)
Fine, you pay £140 for 4gb. What did I get for £138?
Oh yeah 30gb Mofo!
So instead of the nipplie of the left breast of the corporate whore, you suckle the nipple on the right - big deal, give yourself a round of applause.
Presumably you'll be opening up your ass to let I-tunes snuggle in too.
and what perchance is your whiter than white player...playa? :)
I don't need 30 gig, but 4 gig is more than enough for a dog walk or a bike ride to work. And I believe you're sucking that same nipple.
As well as a big fat cock.
a big fat smelly dogs cock. :)
As for Itunes (or iTunes), I'm either going to get the plug in for winamp for the ipod, or use the disk based transferring as iT took up too much memory, created/deleted too many temp files and didn't like it when I moved files around.
In other news, we're off to notts this weekend to see me first and the gimmee gimmee's. Should be a good gig, although we were going to go with cat and mike, but they're having a trial seperation at the moment, and things aren't looking good. We're going with Cat, and Mikes going with his mate.
I think I'm expected to talk to him but I don't know what to actually say apart from "I'll have a bottle of newky tar".
It's a creative Labs Jukebox actually, and anyhoo I think we all suck corporate cock around here, some of us just don't pretend that it tastes ok. ;-P
They may have trouble producing a mouse with more than one mouse button, but I've got to admit, the Ipod ain't bad. The Ipod nano is a thing of beauty. You don't have to be into mp3's, computers, walkmans, techy toys to look at that thing and go 'I want one'. They've done a fantastic job of making it look,play,work well. Sound quality to my mutton jeff ears sounds ok, usuability (ignoring the pc/mac debate) is spot on for the device, easy to use, no other things needed to be done (it plays music, duh!), great stuff.
I'm impressed they've kept compatibility with the old connectors on the bottom of it, that's good sense.
Itunes sucks donkey bits. It's all that's bad about the mac world, simplistic, treats you like a baby, and uses alot of resources (old versions used to crash all over the place). It's got alot better, but the winamp route has got to be better.
Interesting the 4gb, 30gb size debate. I'm rarely far from my PC which is the main source of my tunes, and I see the music player as a stop gap between PC Syncs, so a 4 gb would be fine to shuffle a few tracks around. If I had the 30gb one, I'm sure I'd dump 4-5gigs worth of tunes on, and use the rest of the space as a portable harddrive to drag around with me (which for the price, is still very, very impressive).
ALL the other players still haven't sussed the interface thingy though in that the main purpose of the machine is to play music, as quickly and easily as possible. One of the players (old Creative brick) took 4 button presses to start playing music from where I left off when turning the thing off. That's bad design.
Ipod nano, definately cool.
And very interesting how they've started to prep for video downloads.
When entering this market, away from music, it's then competing with Psp's I reckon. Sony vs Apple. Syle vs Style.
On the memory thing, personally I don't like shuffling music on and off my player, that was the main reason I opted for so much memory. I wanted to put my whole CD collection on to the machine, with room to spare. To date I have about 170 Albums, totalling 1850 tracks; using 6gb of storage. That's about half my CD collection. I add maybe another dozen CD's to it a week, and don't store any music on the PC.
My player also has the handy feature of continuing from exactly the point it was turned off when you start it up. Like some super saver pause function.
When I started ripping CD's, I ripped the entire CD but what I found is tracks 1,4 and 13 were very good, 6, 9 and 10 were alright but the rest could be not required, at that time. I used to do it in the car with a CD, play a few tracks then get the next CD out.
Now I find myself skipping album tracks so I've got to re-organise my current ripped CD's and get the 'best of' on my computer, and the CD's always there as a backup.
CDeX BTW is a very nice open source ripper, using the freeDB stuff, lots of options and many encoding options. Head over to sourceforge and check it out.
I used to do that when I worked at Bradford, just put on the two or three best tracks. Result was I quickly got bored of hearing the same 300 odd songs and resorted to digital radio instead. I'm old enough to enjoy listening to the whole album, and anyway I often rediscover the pleasure of tracks I hear less often after a while, yes there are always a few tracks you seldom do anything other than skip past when they come up on random, but so far I've only outright deleted two tracks.
And there's always those 2 tracks you hated when listening to the album at first that end up being your favourite.
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