PSP-3000 unboxing and hands-on
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted October 20th 2008 1:58PM
posted October 20th 2008 1:58PM
posted October 20th 2008 1:58PM
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some forums report the color difference is mostly software change, the highest brightness level of psp3000 is actually lower than psp2000, for fast moving pictures, the tailing issue is gone but there's de-interlacing issue now. I was waiting for entertainment bundle, now I will wait longer until they fix it. also even with go!cam, psp3000 wont support skype video conference...
Given this,
Any chance for a side-by-side video with the 2000, Josh?
could have atleast had a pic with the thing turned on.
First Yawn!
YOU TOO
CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL ETC
Wow Fernando, your equally as annoying...
And so is your use of your instead of you're.
Want me to throw a party for you now?
Can this be hacked like PSP-2000 and phut or not yet?
PS; Darx Alex has just posted CFW 5.00 for PSP 1 and 2.
Actually, they might be able to. Seems the first batch of psp3000 are using the same boards as the slims. Until the new batches come out. This info from D.A. himself.
what an intellectual discourse this late morning here. sounds like a case of the Moondays
More like Loonday.
When are they going to come up with the NEW PSP??? Not just rebranded, old, PSPs??
Nice. However I'm not a fan of that color.
Do we know when the various colors will be hatching?
I'm not too keen on silver either.
I'm thinking Black like the PS3 or maybe Red or Blue
Yes. That finish is unbelievably cheesy, especially compared to the high-quality look of the old (black) ones.
Not much new here, move on.
Ha! Ha! First.
PSP: Still a great multimedia and gaming device. I bought one instead of an iTouch and never looked back!
i just wish i didn't have to use memory sticks instead if the SDs I already have OR else built in storage...like 16gb would nice. and dual analog.
I just wish the volume went higher...
I still use my PSP phat once in a while. I still think they should remove the UMD drive and make it ultra slim like an ipod.
You can get SD to MS adapters, my friend just bought an adapter and 2 16 GB microSD cards, he now has a 32 GB PSP and it only cost him $75 in total
When will they put a second analog nub on the darn thing. It's been a while since I had a PSP but when i did, some FPS games did axis movement with the right keypad. This made me sell the PSP.
A little tip for whoever's taking the pictures for Engadget, lower the aperature and you'll get yourself a more focused shot of the entire product rather than having one side focused with the backbody blurred. This also means you'll have to switch off from Auto and move over to M.
I think it looks better with a depth of field.
There is always depth of field. I think you mean to say it would look better with greater depth of field.
It sounds to me like he's disagreeing with the original poster, so that would mean likes the shallower (not greater) depth of field.
Either way, the new finish is incredibly tacky and a huge step back from the high-quality look of the old ones.
Many owners are complaining the screens on these have severe interlacing compared to the previous models, can you guys confirm this?
What a frightful mess. Generally each of the various iterations of a given handheld is more attractive than the last. This is in fact a step down. Just hideous. Does this come in any colors other than speckled, matte, childrens-plastic-cereal-box-prize-watch, rollerblade silver (i.e. ugly as sin)?
Admitedly the silver version isn't very nice...yet I don't know why every new package come with that one. The black and the white ones do a much better job....
The shell is the same as the last one basically.
Where this one looks worse is far more important: the screen has horrible interlacing artifacts. Static screen shots look fine, but as with all interlacing artifacts when things on the screen start moving there are horrible jagged scanlines running across your screen. *DO NOT BUY THIS*.
Images of how Sony **** the pooch on this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/19043905@N06/2948880126/
A round of applause for managing to screw up so egregiously and magnificently.
Silver sucks.
yeah, everything painted silver looks like wanna-be metal.
Now they're on the 3rd generation. What have they added since the first? A microphone, TV-Out, a better screen, and new colours. By the 3rd generation, I think we should have a little more. a second analog stick, at least.
So I havent touched my PSP for like a year and a half now. I thought the whole platform is pretty much dead. I guess is trying hard to milk out of whatever life it has left of it.
Speaking of which what the hell happened to Grand Turismo for the PSP?! That was the whole point a bunch of people buying this paper weight!
Why buy a new PSP if the hardware is BARELY revised, and the software can't be hacked yet?
Well darling, I didn't have an old one. Not that complicated. :)
A hacked, good as new PSP slim can be purchased on ebay for less than $150. With all the free games on it, and the ones you can download.
Got one of these yesterday. Loving it. So excited about Final Fantasy Tactics. I love this game, I'm glad they finally did it justice after so many years.
Do yourself a favor and play the emulated PSX version on the PSP - it's the reason I bought mine. (Tactics and Vagrant Story actually) On the PSP remake, every single spell has annoying and noticeable slowdown. I also don't like how they mapped the buttons since you're missing R2 and L2 - the PSP emulator allows you to intelligently remap them. The translation is a bit more polished, but I think it also takes away some of the charm of the original.
@wako
gran turismo 4 mobile has a 2011 release date.
I think Bluetooth would be nice. I'd love to play music/videos/games with my fancy Bluetooth Stereo Headphones...