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Analyst: iPod Touch will kill the PSP |
Listed in: PSP, iPhone Tags: David Perry, media player, Sony
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Another one boards the iPhone-greater-than-PSP wagon. This time it's Game Brief analyst Nicholas Lovell, who says that the Apple device will be the "final nail in the PSP's coffin," having three times more games than the DS, and five times more than the PSP.
The iPod Touch is rapidly becoming the portable media player of choice amongst a younger audience, exactly the place that Sony wanted to be with the PSP.
[The iPod Touch] is an easy-to-use device that offers consumers their music, podcasts, short-form video and accessible games on the move and in my opinion, will be the final nail in the PSPÂ’s coffin.
While he says that it's the games that make the platform, he argues that the iPhone is changing the name of the game. It's no longer "the content per se" that matters, "but the ease of getting it that makes a difference," talking about the vending machine ease of the AppStore. If that's the case, then let's hope David Perry was right and Sony is going digital.
Let's also not forget that Sony promised to reinvigorate the PSP this year. It's still early in the year and we've yet to see them make good on the promise. And as wonderful as the iPhone is, I doubt it's going to kill the PSP. After all, it's still a phone at heart, and ease of acquiring games just can't substitute for the power and the game library of the PSP.
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Via CasualGaming.biz
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Every fourth fool in my city flaunts these dumb things, and half of them look like they can barely afford rent. I wish the whole lot of them end up mugged (only after the treehuggers, male and female alike, that flaunt their Solitaire-driving Apple laptops in public places though).
Just saying.
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Analysts are *****ing idiots.
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But seriously, people have been saying this to sony ever since the psp first came out.
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what apple gonna develop next a Idildo
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The things people will say for a *****ty piece of plastic with some lights on it.
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That said, I still think the iPod Touch (and Meizu M8) are toys that nobody truly needs, while the iPod Nano is an overprice and underfeatured ripoff compared to the Meizu Miniplayer, which is superior in just about every way -- particularly sound quality.
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It has only been out for about two years but it already has a huge userbase. Meanwhile the PSP is slowly sinking in sales. There's no doubt that it will kill the PSP.
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APP STORE:: Free or inexpensive home brew:
people make an app for the PSP, submit it to sony to check to see if its got epic flaws or lets you do anything illegal, and if not, post it on the app store.
DIGITAL:: like the other article says, DL games via internet.. its a lot better than carrying around those stupid UMD's.. and saves battery power
SMALLER:: without the UMD tray, the size of the console could be HALVED.
MORE POWERFUL:: without the UMD tray, thers more room for creativity, beef up the CPU and maybe internal storage?
although that would cost slightly more than say, the 3000 it would be totally worth it. If i ran the company id be patrolling this site and forums for ideas sense a large portion of the community is represented here.
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- of course :) but you can't xD
one use crap
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Anyway the iPod touch is a great device and has a few decent games. It isnt going to kill the PSP though touch controls will never be better than actual buttons.
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when the battery goes your f**ked.
that is why Apple are doing so well, you have to buy a new one every 6 to 12 months LOL
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It's expensive, too little memory in it.
I got 16GB in my psp, a whole ton of music, Video, Picture, and even ISO's from my games which I backed-up on my memory card.
Oh hold on.....it doesn't end there just yet. The 16GB I have is an Micro SD card, which I have the adaptor to be a Pro Duo. That means I can use my 16GB on my Blackberry Curve =P that means even more benefits for me! Music, Video, Pictures for my phone tooooo. And if that's not all, I'm going to buy a Duo micro SD adaptor to Pro Duo, so I can link to 16GB and make it into a 32GB memory card for my PSP. =P Not tats what I call Nice!
Oh wait.....there's more, I can use my Micro SD with the adaptor to use it on my Sony 12.1Mega Pixel Camera! That means, Click! Picture, transfer to PSP, set as wall paper, or phone, etc.... Plus don't forget about the Video on the Digital Camera, yea! tat means videos on PSP and Blackberry Phone!!!
=P HA!!!! IPOD try to beat that......... Oh wait you can't! because u only have a small amount of memory. Yea there's app's for Ipod Touch, so what!? Blackberry has App's too! Especially the Word,Excel,Spre adsheet, and PDF viewer, what else can I ask!? Nothing
Because 16GB + PSP + Camera + Blackberry = Heaven!!!
IPOD Touch = ?? WTF is this??? lolz
You always have to think outside the Box. At first I was going to get an Ipod Touch, but I had a psp, had a 4GB Memory stick. but then came my Blackberry, then came my Micro SD and then got everything and BANG! I created the Perfect combo.
Perfect Combo = "Priceless"
=P
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But you guys have to check out Toshiba TG01
CPU : Qualcomm’s 1GHz
Ram: 512mb
only 9.9mm thick
http://www.slashgear.com/toshiba-tg01-announced-iphone-3g-and-touch-hd-killer-0332839/
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- i love the description! haha. such passion, such advocacy. i feel your pain. beautiful, beautiful.
and no, am not being sarcastic. i really love it. ^_^
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p.s Windows mobile smartphone can actually do lots of things . It way better than iphone ( That's my opinion)
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thanks to some moron named mr Novell.
kill means because of that product nobody would buy the other, but why the heck would a person not buy a psp because of ipod touch?
gamewise, the psp is excelent in every way compared to ipod touch, hell even DS is much much better than ipod touch in gaming.
nobody in their right mind would prefer portable gaming on ipod touch rather than PSP or DS.
only media junkies will prefer ipod touch.
i bring my psp everyday wherever i go, even at work.
my ipod touch 16gb 1st gen is only used when go to the toilet and watch some porn for 5 minutes, most of the times the psp alternates because of the homebrew that enables more flash movie sites.
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all consoles and handhelds have games and great games, it just depends on the users game preference.
compared to the wii, gamecube and or gameboy advance, the psp has a good library with lots of great games. its just that some people asks too much. and people tend to forget the psp is also a ps1 consoles hence you can add all the ps1 games to the psp library.
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it was not by my hand that i was once again given flesh,
i was called here by humans who wish to pay me tribute.
tribute!?! you steal men's souls and make them your slave.
perhaps the same can be said of all religions.
your words are as empty as your soul!
mankind ill needs a savior such as you!
what is a man?
a miserable little pile of secrets.
but enough talk...
have at you!
...........
SOULSTEAL!!!
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my psp and ds batteries are also fine even if they both go with me anywhere.
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i also use a micro sd with pro duo converter from photofast.
use it on my psp, when the psp battery runs out, i just put the micro sd to my DS with flash card, then the music listening continues. after that when the DS runs out of juice i put my micro sd to my celfon SO905i which is a sony walkman phone which plays my music (also shows photo and videos) then i have non stop entertainment all day. the ipod touch just sits in the closet.
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The point about digital downloads is well made, and it will be the future direction of the PSP if only to kill the second hand market. The only thing I'm a bit uneasy about is importing - half my PSP collection is imported games, and if Sony suck as hard with digital content as they do now, I might even avoid the PSP2 for that reason. Case in point is the Euro release of SF2HD - a 3 month delay and for what reason?
If they region lock PSP2, then I may have to pass, if only because SCEE are utterly incompetent.
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BTW: Zune>Ipod
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For everything else I'd rather use my iPhone. It's a better MP3 player (PSP is more like a portable free version of Quicktime, iPhone is a portable iTunes). Better video playback. MUCH, omg VERY MUCH better internet browser... it's actually useable on an iPhone! Online music AND app store. Smaller, lighter. Better screen with no ghosting and scratch resistant. Much more robust and stronger. Better wifi reception, bluetooth, 3G, higher res camera than the PSP's paid accessory. Email built in, faster boot times, longer battery life. Many many more apps and free ones too.
The only thing it lacks is physical buttons thats good. I don't want a joypad accessory, I don't want a physical keyboard. I want to keep my devices seperate so if the battery goes on one I'm not stuck on a train with nothing to do!
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£130+130+ £260
A 16gb iPod Touch is £214! The 32gb Touch is only £20 more!! LOL
And btw the PSP makes a terrible MP3 player. No playlist support, no ratings, no smart playlist, horrible sound quality compared to iPod or Zune (real mp3 players) due to the poor sound chip.
Oh and the "small amount" of memory on an iPhone is the same 16gb that you were banging on about earlier! WTF!
I know it sounds like you enjoy your setup. Or maybe not since you feel the need to reinforce it. But really your views sound VERY old, where you only playing with a 1sg gen 4gb iPhone? They have moved on, you know.
Also- GPS. :)
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(Oh, btw, just about any kind of 2D game can go onto an iPod or iPhone, after all, there are thousands and thousands of 2D games out there where there is only a small fraction of 3D games that can be played portably at the present time. Think about it Apple, all you did was revive the Gameboy - the godfather of portable gaming.)
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THERE IS NO WAY iTouch WILL EVER KILL THE PSP!
ST*U ALREADY!
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Glad a few passionately-delivered adjectives tickled yuh fancy. Heh.
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The iPod Touch makes YOU look like a brick. Look around. EVERYONE'S doing it.
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PSPs MP3 is good, and the visualizers kick some major ass. also, the PSP supports playlists and M3u files [try researching a bit first] PSP has a GPS attachment. Also the screen is bigger and theres more apps [free] and better emulators for PSP..
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how could you blame an average joe for wanting itouch over psp? If your not a serious gamer psp is going to be a huge dissapointment. Just keep that in mind when trying to argue sales figures based on your appreciation of playing certain titles over others. (basically all psp does)
i dont use my psp for audio, its not that bad its just rediculously un practical. I end this rant by asking, WHY THE HECK WOULDNT YOU WANT YOUR MP3/4 PLAYER TO BE AS COOL AS A PSP?!?
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HOT or COLD? Night or Day? Gay or Straight?
No!....... Maybe most of this world has moved on, maybe theres a such thing as Warm, and Bi. ***** man theres dusk AND dawn.....for those indecisive folks. This analyst apparently has a hardon for 4pple, sure it has more games but that doesnt mean that they're better! How about this 4pple makes a $150 Iphone/Ipod, and Sony makes the $450 PSP tell me which ones gonna be better COOOMMMOOONNN NICK!!!!! Get you ***** out the dirt and look at the sun for once.
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and they are the *****s for response time and are so god damn anal about ur *****ing finger being on it to make it work.
u can surf the web for free unlike the iphone which just *****ing racks up the price for every page u've been to and i think how much time you spend on it.
And also about comments about the amount of sales for the PSP is natural for everything.... its gonna happen to ur precious little itouch that is so amazing. oh and also take a look at japan i am pretty sure the PSP/Sony is a hell of a lot bigger then the itouch is there.
K AFTER THAT I IS JUST GOING TO LISTEN TO SOME BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE IN A CORNER......ON MY PSP!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!
p.s. u can prolly get some homebrew program that has a better management for music and the such.
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If PSP lost its piracy issues (which iTouch will soon share more than likely) then it would have producers try to produce great games... It can pocket power most PS2 games with the lack of the 1 stick and 2 buttons... iTouch has to fit the game with the ability to do tricks all on one screen which sounds like hell street to me.
As far as 5 minute games go, iTouch will probably win. As far as actual "gaming" goes. Its definitely in the PSP's court and will stay there.
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