Sony's new PSP gets a proper shakedown for new features

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Big @ Jul 16th 2007 9:30AM

SONY wasted alot of opportunities here.

They could have added a keyboard attachment. No Web Browser should be without a keyboard.

They coulda moved the analoge nub or even better, added a second nub.

Other than that, the PSP is pretty decently designed. They just need more original games.

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Grey Acumen @ Jul 16th 2007 10:44AM

I totally agree on the second nub issue. They seriously could have opened themselves up for SO many GOOD ports with that.

This could have opened up seriously awesome possibilities when combined with the AV feed. They could use that USB port to hook up a USB-PS2 adaptor like this one
http://www.hartsunlimited.com/supdualboxwi.html
that would let you plug in actual controllers for multiplayer game versions.
So they could basically bill this thing as the ultimate portable PS2. Developers could just do straight ports of nearly everything. All they'd have to do is add the option of portable mode for the button layout, which would allow you to make up for the fact that you're missing two shoulder buttons and don't have the buttons on the joysticks, since they're only nubs.
Portable mode would allow you to play multiplayer against someone who also has a PSP with the same game, and not have to share the screen, but if the other person didn't have the same game, then all you'd need would be the controllers and the AV cable and you could still have a multiplayer game as if you were playing the original PS2 game.

This would pretty much open EVERY single PS2 game and possibly even a few Xbox and 360 games to be ported to the system.

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Daniel @ Jul 16th 2007 5:54PM

They could not add a second nub beacuase this is not a "new" PSP its like a PSP-lite

if they added a second anolog stick then games games made for it would not work on the older psp.

This is nothing but a redesign

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chefgon_ign @ Jul 17th 2007 12:16AM

Thats dumb, Sony released a dual-analog controller for the PS1 and all the later games just supported both controller versions. Its not that hard to do.

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