Musashi Wins!
FLAWLESS VICTOLY!
Mine is.
It's not just lack of new games. Every system goes through a drought. Especially new ones. For some reason, so many of the features and possibilities that seemed worthwhile seem a little superfulous to me now that the shine has worn off. And the negatives loom larger than ever.
-It's a really pretty system. But between worry about damage and the size of the thing, it's not all that handy to take anywhere. Even more so now that summer has rolled along and I'm not carrying a jacket or the like. Not to mention that you might as well not play it outside. For both the damage and screen lighting.
-It's not designed well to pull off the things it wants you to believe it can accomplish. Watching movies on it is not that great. Even worse if you're not buying the rip off UMD films and watching something from the memory card the sound is awful. It's not all that ideal for music, and getting files easily over to the system was obviously not their paramount concern. At least if their not of the format they've narrowly defined.
-The storage medium is too fucking expensive. I'm not broke, I paid too much for this fucking thing on day one, but the cost for a decent amount of memory is ridiculous. Especially when the main uses for it aren't all that killer.
-And what about the games? I can only speak for myself here...but the haters were right. Once the novelty of seeing near console graphics on the go wears thin, you're left with the same game you were probably playing at home, only less so. With a worse controller. And light online play if you're lucky. While the occasional long trip might make this seem worthwhile with the load times and similarity of play it's not that compelling for on the go. Again, my opinion, but it turns out the needs for a portable game are not the same as the ones for home. Sorry to those I mocked for suggesting otherwise.
-What about the games? Their not bad, but again...no one is really missing that much either. And the pipe looks thin. Mighty thin. If you're not excited (as I'm not anymore) about the graphical capability a PS2 light version of GTA is probably not going to set you're world on fire. Guess what, besides a fucking FF movie, that's the big title. And Madden? I'm not really looking forward to a hack port of that after the baseball games.
Anyhow...I know GAF loves/hates these sort of threads but I suspect I'm not alone in feeling like I sold myself a bit of a dog here. There will probably be hardware revisions and emulators to take some of the sting away for some, but I don't know if I'll hang out for that. A book and a GBA seem a far better value. Not to mention an Ipod. Consolidation or not, that only works when the system is much better than the pieces it replaces. I don't think this is. My only heavy experience with Sony Hardware is this and the PS2 and apparently Kutaragi could use someone from the real world whispering in his ear a little.
Forgive my rant, GAF whaaaa whaaaa!
It's not just lack of new games. Every system goes through a drought. Especially new ones. For some reason, so many of the features and possibilities that seemed worthwhile seem a little superfulous to me now that the shine has worn off. And the negatives loom larger than ever.
-It's a really pretty system. But between worry about damage and the size of the thing, it's not all that handy to take anywhere. Even more so now that summer has rolled along and I'm not carrying a jacket or the like. Not to mention that you might as well not play it outside. For both the damage and screen lighting.
-It's not designed well to pull off the things it wants you to believe it can accomplish. Watching movies on it is not that great. Even worse if you're not buying the rip off UMD films and watching something from the memory card the sound is awful. It's not all that ideal for music, and getting files easily over to the system was obviously not their paramount concern. At least if their not of the format they've narrowly defined.
-The storage medium is too fucking expensive. I'm not broke, I paid too much for this fucking thing on day one, but the cost for a decent amount of memory is ridiculous. Especially when the main uses for it aren't all that killer.
-And what about the games? I can only speak for myself here...but the haters were right. Once the novelty of seeing near console graphics on the go wears thin, you're left with the same game you were probably playing at home, only less so. With a worse controller. And light online play if you're lucky. While the occasional long trip might make this seem worthwhile with the load times and similarity of play it's not that compelling for on the go. Again, my opinion, but it turns out the needs for a portable game are not the same as the ones for home. Sorry to those I mocked for suggesting otherwise.
-What about the games? Their not bad, but again...no one is really missing that much either. And the pipe looks thin. Mighty thin. If you're not excited (as I'm not anymore) about the graphical capability a PS2 light version of GTA is probably not going to set you're world on fire. Guess what, besides a fucking FF movie, that's the big title. And Madden? I'm not really looking forward to a hack port of that after the baseball games.
Anyhow...I know GAF loves/hates these sort of threads but I suspect I'm not alone in feeling like I sold myself a bit of a dog here. There will probably be hardware revisions and emulators to take some of the sting away for some, but I don't know if I'll hang out for that. A book and a GBA seem a far better value. Not to mention an Ipod. Consolidation or not, that only works when the system is much better than the pieces it replaces. I don't think this is. My only heavy experience with Sony Hardware is this and the PS2 and apparently Kutaragi could use someone from the real world whispering in his ear a little.
Forgive my rant, GAF whaaaa whaaaa!
