PSP 2: Now with touch controls...

... on the back of the handheld

I'm tired of everyone trying to copy Nintendo, but then doing something just for the heck of saying: Hey! Ours is different!

no... No.
How do you DO that?!?

Everyone half mocked the DS for meing touch controlled, but it worked. how the hell are they going to
(A) uses the touch screen capabilities?
On the DS, unless it was meant to be touch screen, (like TWEWY, or phantom hourglass/spirit tracks) It seemed like a cheap gimmick (like the poketch in D/P/Pt). Or a shortcut in some games, like easier access to the menu (which is just lazy).
(B) Justify the new game library?
The DS is now known to be the good handheld. It's relatively cheap, has both casual and hardcore games, and everyone knows it. Hell, I know people who bought the DS for nintendogs, and became die-hard nintendy fans because the fell in love with the DS. Adults have a DS. Children have a DS. The DS has tutoring games. The DS has books on it. (seriously. It's a cartridge with 100 classical books) The DS has cookbooks on it. How is the PSP2 gonna wedge itself into the niche market the DS has carved out for itself? It'll skim the surface, but always be forced out by the DS.
(C) Find people to make PSP touch games?, or people to buy them?
Self explanitory. Casual gaming companies are not going to want to put their stuff on a system that has a lot of darker stuff on it. Would you seriously see cooking mama on the same shelf as Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker? And the buyers...
I mean, pretend you're an overprotective parent. You know nothing about video games. you walk into a Gamestop, and see two displays. The Nintendo DS(current model X) and the PSP2. The DS has pictures of mario on it, and puzzle games, and brain age, and cooking mama, and flowers, and happy smiling rainbows. And the psp2 will have a display for... well, updated stuff on the current PSP. Like, God of War Portable. GTA portable. Twisted metal. Metal Gear Solid something or another. Which one are you going to buy for your child? (bear in mind, this is not ghetto mom, or "I don't give two shits, lets buy your thing and GTFO" mom. this is "I want the very best for my child" mom.) You would veer away from death, explosions, hookers and psychotic men with no shirts and large tattoos holding VERY large blades, and drift towards the happy sunshiny mushroom people with their puzzle professors in the weird hats and their cartoonish hero wearing tights while riding a train.

I have reached a level where I am not even disappointed in Sony anymore. They are really only a joke to me now.

TheTJ wrote:*Cough* N-GAGE *cough*

Thy which never must be spoken of.

Sony is too behind now.

3DS has touch screen and 3D. You would think Sony would grow a brain and know they got their asses handed to them in the handheld market and that they should back the fuck off.

Seriously, Sony, you are getting ridiculous. Innovate something yourself or get the fuck out.

Ngage failed as a gaming system, but the iPhone is starting to show us that it's not a bad idea after all, it just needs to be executed well.

TheTJ wrote:*Cough* N-GAGE *cough*

Beat me to it.

Oh, it's been a while since I've got to witness a gaming device crash and burn. This should be interesting.

TheTJ wrote:*Cough* N-GAGE *cough*

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SnakeInABox wrote:

TheTJ wrote:*Cough* N-GAGE *cough*

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It was a phone video game system. here's a commercial.




here's a game for it.

Raya wrote:

TheTJ wrote:*Cough* N-GAGE *cough*

Beat me to it.

Oh, it's been a while since I've got to witness a gaming device crash and burn. This should be interesting.

Oow, I wasn't much into gaming during the (tragic?) crash of the dreamcast, so this'll be my first crashing gaming device this ought to be fun

TheTJ wrote:The PSP 2 or the N-Gage? 'Cause the N-Gage died around 2004.

A few places near me held midnight launches. Nobody showed up

I'm sure it was before 2004, because I'm positive it got ripped by Digitiser (God rest its haggered soul), and that was back when I was in grammar school...