Whoever it was at Sony HQ that decided to pursue "military contracts" as a revenue source, kudos! Mere days after the US Air Force expressed interest in
expanding its PS3 supercomputer, we're hearing glorious Britannia's Royal Navy has conscripted 230
PSPs into duty as revision aids for its trainee sailors. Loaded with maths and physics materials, the PSPs can be used in a bunk, have familiar controls for the young and mostly male recruits, and are considered pretty tough to break. The underlying reason for this move though is cost cutting: by making the training course more intensive, the Navy is saving on teaching time. Given that the
UMD drive won't come disabled -- which is hoped to encourage the sailors to take better care of the device -- the future this paints is of marines who've spent more time with a freebie handheld console than with a pro instructor. At least they'll have a great stable of captured monsters to show for it.
[Thanks, pankomputerek]
posted November 28th 2009 9:01PM
Stuff like this keep showing why playstaion is just so awesome, Their products truely do everything.
@0LIV3R, the only thing the psp can really do is music, videos, pictures, games, extremely basic web, and xmb.
The ps3 used to be able to do anything untill they removed OtherOS from the slim models.
So yeah, it really does do everything media wise, but not much more :S
Study aids my ass
@Bowsa They're studying on how to drive cars faster in Gran Turismo or play the guitar with Rockband unplugged.
@Bowsa
"Johnny. What are you doing at the back of the class?"
"Studyin'."
@Bowsa
study AIDS?
your ass?
@(Unverified)
Good try there.
Oh joy.
Ha! Battleship!
"considered pretty tough to break"
you got that right. i've dropped my psp countless times, on various surfaces, and all that ever happened was the UMD fell out and the device reset itself.
the psp is a brick!!
If you want to deter them from Homer-Sexual behavior, just jive them some Pron to whack off to.
Why not go one step further and just man up and NUKE all those loser countries that fuk with USA.
Problems solved.If you are gonna kill people at least be man enough to kill 1/2 of the people god put on the FAIL creation called a planet!
invoke the power of lucifer and if there is a god he has to show up to stop us from killing all those loser people in those loser countries that our armies have to waste time enslaving,.
@(Unverified) If it gets to bad they can buy them knock off fleshlights to go with their photocopied porn.
@(Unverified)
Makes me wonder how come losers like you aren't living in all those loser countries that you're complaining about.
@(Unverified) I would love to agree with you, but the USA (I live in Virginia), has the highest gay to straight ratio in the world.
@(Unverified) You really are fucking stupid.
They do realize that the psp does still work even if the umd drive doesn't right?
Snakes On A Ship too! God help us all!
wow someone really needs to get outside and enjoy the fresh air a bit more....
on topic however...... its actually a good idea. if i could get my kids to do their homework simply because its on a psp id be cool with that.
You know, if controlling Predators and drones could be done from a handheld such as a PSP or some sort of game console, that could easily cut down on operating and training costs given that most people would figure out how to use the gear in mere minutes. Plus, handhelds are dime a dozen, so to speak, these days. Lose one in the field and they'd be easy enough to replace, one would think. And, why not have something fun to do while off duty? Repurposing game consoles for military use is a great idea.
I woulda went with something like the iPod touch or Archos 5. Dropped my iPod touch tons of times (No case either). Pretty dang durable.
this is hilarious. lovin it.
"the future this paints is of marines who've spent more time with a freebie handheld console than with a pro instructor, but have a great stable of captured monsters to show for it."
More importantly, I don't think Pokemon is for the psp...
@(Unverified) i believe there is a monster hunter game or something of that nature which they are referring to.
@(Unverified) Plus the navy don't train Marines, they train sailors. Marines are different.
@(Unverified) They're not referring to Pokemon, they're referring to the Monster Hunter series. Apparently the game was so popular that when Monster Hunter 2ndG was released, it had a discernible impact on Japan's economy due to so many people taking the day off of work to play it @_@
Not to be a dick about this but since there are only a few countries that actually have Marines, we tend to be rather anal about capitalization of the term. It's a title. Wether it's Royal Marines or just Marines, Her Majesty's jarheads would appreciate the proper use of the term. I know we do.
Now we know who's actually buying Sony's products. If it won't sell in the public market I guess do what every crappy business does and sell their junk through government contracts.
Finally they added my thingy.
Hmm - that screenshot reminds me of playing Battleship on the [Sega] Game Gear :O
Reminds me of playing Battleship on the Sega Game Gear (ahh, the memories)