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Rumor: more details on PSP-4000 sliding screen |
Listed in: PSP Tags: David Perry, PSP2, Sony
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Fan-made image, everybody.
A trip to the mill got me another bag full o' rumor. Eurogamer is once again reporting on the new PSP model, giving new details on the rumored sliding screen, which sounds more like the famous fan-made design than most would believe.
According to Eurogamer's source, the PSP-4000's screen is "basically the same as the one in the 3000 - except it slides." Uh-huh. Yeah. Get to the good stuff.
When closed, the screen won't cover the entire face of the console, but the PSP will be "significantly smaller in width," and controls will be inaccessible save for the shoulder buttons. Some games will, in effect, still function, like LocoRoco (and, uh... can you guys think of anything else?). The unit will also have media playback in this state.
Lastly, it seems Sony is also approaching developer for ideas for games that only require the shoulder buttons. If ever this PSP-4000 rumor is true, I can guess what its nickname will be. The PSP Screen. Or the PSP shoulder buttons.
Rumoramarificationism:
- Rumor: PSP-4000 incoming with new sexiness, sliding screen
- Rumor: PSP-4000 coming in late 2009, PSP 2 to follow "later"
- Rumor: PSP2 won't have UMD drive, says David Perry; PSP 2 is real, says Perry
- Koller responds to UMD-less PSP 2 rumor: partially true, the rest is 'no comment'
- Sony blasts touchscreen PSP 2 rumors: nothing but poppycock
Via Eurogamer
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BUT, if they add a 2nd analog-stick, it can't be PSP1 anymore!! it would have to be PSP2..
^^simply becourse, you can't make a PS2 with SIXAXIS-compatibility and still call it PS2 either, because, that would make ealier version of the PS2 unable o play the newer games correctly......
so they WON'T add a 2nd analog-stick unless they make the PSP2... so in advance "stop saying you want a 2nd analog-stick, thank you"
but then again, PSP2 sounds stupid.... so maybe they will just call the PSP2 for PSP-4000??? but it would still theoratically be a "PSP2".... you get my point??.... probably not.. :(
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But I agree on Phantom Hourglass. The controls destroyed it. But even then it was lacking in all the personality and charm of other top-view Zelda games.
And they had better not copy touchscreen stuff. Yes Nintendo did it well with the DS, and yes Apple also did incredibly well with the iPhone and iPod Touch and YES the app store for them is the biggest money spinner since anything. Dont copy it.
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Personally, I think the touch screen would be a gimmick move and would destroy the PSP. Too much like trying to copy the DS.
I like the sliding screen idea in the fan pic, and I think that would be nice. If they did include a second analog, it would have to be a PSP2/PS2P/some other name, due to the lack of forward compatibility for the PSPs 1-3000.
As for games that only use shoulder buttons... other than LocoRoco I can't see that happening. And even in LR (notice the abbreviation = shoulder buttons? Yay coincidences), that would still be hard to implement in the menus and such.
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This would be EXCRUCIATINGLY beneficial to games that were "ported" from systems with dual analogs. Monster Hunter would have a camera that didn't require your hand to do acrobatics, Katamari would be playable, FPS would come into their own.
Really it would just be fantastic but the key is that if Sony still doesn't want to move into a PSP2 mode they don't have to. The second analog is just for ease of play.
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Me: Hey wicked i got the new psp!
John: Wow let me have a try
Me: No!
Chav: watch where you are going (walks into Me)
John: what was his problem
Me: I don't know
John: Ahhh look at the psp!
Me: Ahhh the screen is hanging off
The End
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You will drop it by accident and the screen will snap but if you remember the old psp's you could step on them and it would still work.
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cmon Sony !
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We donot have to bend our necks to play PSP while on-the-go.
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...or the PSP DS ... but with just one screen ...
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PSP HD MINI
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PSP touch
haha !
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so in that way, they can't add another analog-stick to PSP1... because then not all PSP1s would be able to play the same games :(
you see my point? :)
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If sony continues making proprietary mini formats, there could be MBD ... mini blueray disc...
If not now, then in PSP-5000 ... when Sony decides: "Please, Devs, make more complex games" ... Xd
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yes boring stupid annoying and to mention a big hate magnet but unlike yours, mikal's comment made sense.
yours contradict the reason that youre here, do you have anything else to do besides comment on someone else's comment? like some goal in life?
funny i noticed, i'm just like you in a way! lol
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My point being that you can add functionallity, but not remove.
Kind of what Nintendo did with the DSi.
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Just to try which characters turn into plus signs, I'll write some:
§ (Paragraph sign)
! (Exclaimation mark)
" (Quote sign)
# (Square)
% (Percent)
+ (Ampersand)
/ (Slash)
+ (Equal sign)
? (Question mark)
@ (At)
£ (Pounds)
$ (Dollar sign)
* (Star)
~ (Don't know the name of this one, but it's used to indicate aproximations)
Now we should know which ones work, and which ones do not.
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As for a second analog, I think zero298's idea would be brilliant... if existing games could be updated to recognise it. It would make Splinter Cell Essentials playable at least.
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I dropped an empty beer bottle on my old PSP-1000, making a magnificent crack on the screen. I bought a new screen and rebuilt it - It was like the console equivalent of the six million dollar man
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