Sony plays catch up with hackers, mulling over PSP 'virtual console'
By Ross Miller 
posted March 4th 2009 2:34AM
posted March 4th 2009 2:34AM
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The PSP's main problem is the lack of dual analog sticks. When they fix that - the system will take care of itself and more developers will flock to it.
THe PS1 had alot of good games prior to the dual analog controller (Warhawk, Twisted Metal, Loaded, Etc) so I'm not worried about those...but what PSP developers need to concentrate on is good games that can be played using just the D-pad and face buttons.
Concentrating on making 3D games for PSP is silly if it doesn't have dual analog sticks.
Flashpoint, you should know better than to reply to the first comment just to be the second comment on the page.
I still don't see how a PSP without a UMD slot would work, really... I mean, it'd be like selling a PS2 without a DVD drive.
Though it'd be amusing if it came with a teeny external UMD drive... Could even let you rip the game onto a memory card, DRM'd and everything, I suppose...
uhhh...you would download games either to internal memory (psp2) or to a memory stick (on current models). kinda like how people do that RIGHT NOW on the ps store.
Problem with that would be that not everyone has an adequate internet connection for that. The PS Store is there as kind of a luxury, not a necessity.
there is so many options, for the price of memory right now they could put the games on micro SD solid state on large volume orders
what ever they do hopefully the next version of the PSP gets rid of all the bad, adds all the missing and gives us something elegant.
there should be a way to register the games you own and the device you own so you can transfer the UMDs and PS1 games over.
otherwise I think I'll buy a netbook and load it full of emulators to play the games I legally own.
it will be tough without Nintendo's back catalog
actually, playing Nintendo's back catalog is the main reason the PSP sells so much. Now Sony wants to charge you for emulators hackers gave for free years ago months after the PSP was released. I had some hope when they started offering PS1 games for download, but after only 10 games being released during a whole year you gotta be an idiot not to realize they simply didn't care for their users.
Too late Sony. Dark Alex unlocked the floodgates a long time ago, and actually made you sell at least 20 million PSPs just to be hacked.
I'm still waiting for you to release the PSP camera and the GPS addon in America, having been planned for release here since early 2007. IS Sony even still making them?
Every single gadget I own must be able to play Street Fighter II Turbo.
and MAME.... bring mame, and I'm game.
ANYWAY, if the PSP2 is not hackable (if that alien unhackable technology ever lands) I'm simply not getting it.
lol I was just playing FFVII on my PC 5 minutes ago... so... good...
i heart that game
They need PSP emulation software built in to the PS3. There are several downloadable PSP games I would like to play, but I'm not going to buy a PSP, in the current iteration at least.
Then buy a PSP. That's the point. If it has good games, buy it.
That's exactly what I was thinking.. The PS3 is very capable of running PSP games, so why not let PS3 users be able to play PSP games..
for fuck's sakes. FF7 was not THAT good. It's been out in like 30 different iterations since...it came out 12 years ago...
PSP is over.
actually ironically it hasn't been through any iterations since it was originally released
just a bunch of weirdo spinoffs
- PSP emulators work because they let you replay your old games without buying them again from the PSN (even the PSN even has them). Sony should have the PS3 check the game disc and rip it to PSP format. Yes, it would be fooled by rentals, but nobody even rents or sells PSOne games anymore.
- The PSP is a rubbish platform for digital downloads since it has 802.11b. Get some decent WiFi in there, Sony!
Hopefully the new PSOne games injected into the US store will carry over to the EU one. Will they ever release PSTwo games for download?
yeah, 2014...
when did that version of the psp release? i mean blue colour ?
That's one beautiful PSP right there.
i got that one in my bag right now
(what other color would you think i'd have?)
since they introduced those scanline screens in the third revision of the PSP (to remind us of our old TVs), I knew they had to have more retro in the pipeline.
http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/message?board.id=psp&thread.id=3398529
*boom, tish*
Sorry, someone had to say it.
Seriously, it's great they are doing this. Old-school games ftw.
How about a GRAN TURISMO title before releasing that BS!
gran turismo on the psp would never work
the system lacks analogue buttons, which would make throttle and braking control impossible
we're all better off if polyphony focuses on GT5
Good thing Gran Turismo never worked on the PS1 since it had no analog buttons... oh wait...
Give me Gran Turismo 4 and Final Fantasy 8 (my favorite game growing up) and I will run out and buy a PSP the same day.
I think if Sony were to start releasing MORE PS1 titles through the PSN they could make a good profit. When PS1 originals were announced, there were about 5 major titles that most wanted (Twisted Metal 2, SotN, FFVII - FFIX, MGS). Granted they've released some of these, there are still a ton of games that Japan has gotten that the US hasn't ... what is taking them so long?!?! How is it that one region of Sony is OK releasing these titles yet all others are in a drought?
As for the PSP2, I have to say that if they add a second analog stick and remove the UMD, I'm sold!
Yeah, I was gonna say...I played FF7 on my psp about oh, 3 years ago :P And I did not pirate it, that was back when I had to convert my own games. Sooooo I had a backup of a game I already owned. Just...made it a little more portable XD
I'm all for this as long as VC games work on PS3 too, which they probably won't, and this will be another let down.
I would hope they expand the current library of PSX titles. I've always been a touch sore that I could not translate titles from my current library of PS games (I'm lookin at you Vandal Hearts) into my PSP. I was never comfortable with the whole Pandora Battery or firmware hack route.
Don't count on PS2 games becoming available for download unless they manage to get completesoftware emulation going as most PS3's at this point don't have PS2 BC anymore (which is a big shame).. But since they are still making a lot of profit on the PS2 itself don't count on them for trying to get the complete emulation working until PS2 sales plummit (or production on the PS2 is halted)..
have you ever tried to do anything wireless like with a psp. the "internet browser" makes me want to piss myself, the game library is for SH!T and other than the life the homebrew community brethed into it, we wouldnt have had the internet radio function, the tv out function(which is debateable) and a slew misc functions.
it needs
Real wireless function, not cripple crappleware.
a design change
2 analog sticks,
touch interface
downloadable games,
a copyprotection scheme that isnt imaginary (seriously sony?! releasing the first firmware 1.00 allowed for unsigned code?! you learned NOTHING from nintendos lack of security?)
NO BS sony hyped format that no one uses, with the exception of BLU RAY
able to use as a ps3 controller a SUPER plus.