Year in Review: February
February may be the shortest month of the year, but that doesn't mean there wasn't any big PSP news. Check out the highlights:
Sony-branded PSP to TV adaptor coming soon?
Then: "In the middle of a report on the waning sales of UMDs in Variety magazine was a brief mention that Sony is currently shopping around the concept of putting out their own PSP to TV adapter. Explicity said as a way for Sony to "boost the format", the ability for people to easily watch UMDs on their TV sets could break the curse on the relatively weak sales numbers of UMDs by giving people a stronger reason to plunk down their cash for the more portable, if less feature-filled, version of their wanted movies and videos."
Now: Looks like this never happened. I'd still love a way to play my movie and game UMDs on a bigger screen when I'm at home. Could the PS3 ever provide the link that I'm looking for? Probably not.
Homebrew Halo for PSP
Then: "Well an innovative gamer from DCEmu has decided to try his hand at modding one of the entries named Iris to make a Halo installment. By adding models, textures and maps, he's done up a decent third-person shooter reminiscent to the Xbox game."
New demo service launches in Japan
Then: "Christened PlayStation.Spot, the service provides downloadable content like demos and other software via hotspots around 150 locations. It takes advantage of the "gameshare" function to get the content to your PSP without having to tap into a memory stick."
Now: The service is supposed to be running in the US now. Has anyone actually seen a kiosk, though?
Homebrew community Flashes PSP users
Then: "For whatever games are lacking from developers, surely this great feature will open the doors for some amazing work to follow. We know Sony is going to have a field day with this."
Now: Homebrew developers seem to get things done faster than Sony. The official 2.70 update introduced Flash support, three months after the homebrew solution.
See entire year in review so far.
