About a week ago, PSP Fanboy asked you what would enhance the PSP system the most. It was a pretty obvious win: the ability to play PSone games on the PSP. For some reason, Sony believes that the number one most-wanted feature for the system is the ability to connect to a PS3, but as can be seen by our not-scientific poll, it's one of the least desirable functions, barely beating out Text Messaging. But in all seriousness, who would really want to use the PSP "keyboard" to text message anyone? People also seem to want a hard drive, but for some reason that's one of the main functions that Sony's not planning to implement... for now, at least. Here are some memorable comments from the Fanboys:
- "How about if it were made by Nintendo. And oh yeah, games worth buying." - mitch
- "I would so love to not have to name files with that useless naming convention." - PodMonkeys (wish granted!)
- "I would really like it if the PSP came with a touch screen. Or a keyboard. It could be like the SideKick." - Hans
- "What about the ability to pull pornography out of thin air?" - Player1
- " A decent way to type, like a Virtual QWERTY keyboard" - MacFanBoy
- "The greatest enhancement would be the ability to download and play iTunes and Videos from iTunes." - MM
- "Real Bluetooth (data and A2DP) support would be nice. Then with a few software updates we could use bluetooth keyboards, bluetooth mice, bluetooth GPS devices, bluetooth stereo audio, etc. etc. the list goes on and on." - Ixalon
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8-04-2006 @ 2:47PM
Mark C. said...
Its because Sony has no clue what the consumer wants. They keep proving this year after year. I think Sony will sell lots of PS3's, but they will never sell like they did the PS2. I believe that their reign is over. Their console is to high priced and its not giving consumers what they want.
The Xbox360 found a good price point, has Xbox Live, and is smaller than the original Xbox. The PS3 is a monster. Did Sony not listen to the complaints about the size of the Xbox? Microsoft did and improved on their design.
Even Nintendo is going to give their customers what they want. It will be interesting to see where Sony ends up in all this. I like Sony products, but feel they have lost sight of their customers and I have now started buying products by Sony competitors and am enjoying them very much.
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8-04-2006 @ 3:14PM
wtf said...
i cant wait to play most the final fantasy's on psp but wtf is the price! and what if i already bought the game for PS1 huh?? and the itunes video questions is kinda already answered but not completely...
you can use this program here
http://www.skattertech.com/2006/06/stream-itunes-to-psp-part-2/
and they upgraded it so now it supports the new video rss
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8-04-2006 @ 4:39PM
gothsquirrel said...
Keyboard, dial a letter sucks and hard. The only reason I still have my psp is i'm holding out to see if i can get Castlevaina Sotn, and FFVII for it.
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8-04-2006 @ 4:48PM
Andrew Yoon said...
Well, Castlevania: SotN is heading over to Xbox 360...
http://www.joystiq.com/2006/08/03/symphony-of-the-night-to-be-heard-on-xbla/
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8-05-2006 @ 6:42AM
Tiago said...
Does everyone except me thinks the PSP should have a keyboard or a virtual qwerty keyboard? Oo Anyone who ever wrote a SMS message easily adapts to the PSP keyboard and it's for sure faster than any virtual qwerty keyboard..
I really can't see the issue with the keyboard Oo I even think it was rather smart on Sony's part.
I think most people don't know the alphabet... that's why they don't like the PSP keyboard.
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8-05-2006 @ 12:19PM
pixelator said...
I gotta disagree with that one. Nothing in terms of what the PSP has now for alpha input is as effective as stylus/virtual keyboard on a PDA, smartphone or the DS.
I think the killing of the 3Logic keyboard was one of those stupid Sony moves where they want to keep development of their hardware all to themselves... Only they aren't developing a keyboard.
Lack of keyboad on the PSP just plain sucks. For me, video output is important but the keyboard might even be higher on my list of things we should have.
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