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The US PSP Launch
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Miburou said:
Be lucky you're not living here in Sweden. Here a new console game for, let's say NDS costs as much as $60. And by the look of it, when PSP hits shelves here, the games will also be about $60-$65 a pop. I've also seen X-box games go for about $100 each. $35 for a game? Check the 'used'-section, or the "Old Games"-section. At least here in Sweden.
Since this thread is too huge for me to search for the information I need, I'm hoping someone can help me out here.
When I connect my PSP to my PC with the cable, my OS goes 'found new hardware' and prompts a driver search. I'm running Windows 98. Is PSP compatible with this? Or do I need to download something? I figured the PSP would just come up as another media or some kind of device that I could just access but I can't figure it out.
Edit:
Nevermind, read one of the FAQ's on GameFAQs. Need Win 2K or above.
When I connect my PSP to my PC with the cable, my OS goes 'found new hardware' and prompts a driver search. I'm running Windows 98. Is PSP compatible with this? Or do I need to download something? I figured the PSP would just come up as another media or some kind of device that I could just access but I can't figure it out.
Edit:
Nevermind, read one of the FAQ's on GameFAQs. Need Win 2K or above.
teepo said:
Yeah, I agree. Fusion is a bit too...dull looking from a color perspective and Pure is pushing more effects (all the bloom lighting and such), but the complex track design is beautiful in Fusion. Fusion's tracks are very geometrically complex (more so than games like Quantum Redshift and F-Zero GX even) and well designed. It is damaged by the poor image quality, though.
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
Again, for the record, I wasn't arguing which one looks better, just the "not even close" comment.
Definitely buy a screen protector, folks. I didn't, and already I have a horrible scratch, despite taking VERY good care of the thing and always storing it in the carrying case. I don't know how it happened. One moment it wasn't there, the next it was. It's so bad that it distracts me even during gameplay, even though it is a hairline scratch and barely visible when the system is off. Very frustrating.
Pedigree Chum
Banned
JPRaup said:
Kinda wish I had a US PSP now, I love the MP4 playback...but it'd be nice to watch full lenght movies at DVD quality on this thing
Is there any chance of Sony releasing a firmware update to make JP systems region 1?
Pedigree Chum
Banned
Mrbob said:
Most definitely Canadian prices.
Dr. Zoidberg
Member
JPRaup said:
And for at least one PSP customer, bundling Spiderman2 with the system instead of a game has paid off for Sony. It's easy to see why they did it when many folks react this way.
Pedigree Chum
Banned
Defensor said:
Far too many if you ask me.
Dr. Zoidberg
Member
Thanks btrboyev! That was great! It fits nicely on the 32MB stick for demos to people.
Hitler Stole My Potato
Banned
I sold three doctors at work into getting a PSP today. I even drove one of them to the store after work to pick it up.
3 more for the PSP army.
3 more for the PSP army.
Seth C said:
Mine has two scratches that go in the same way. Hardly noticeable and they were there when I opened the PSP carton box. You may have had yours aswell all the time just you noticed them now. I have cleaned outer parts of the screen with the cloth that came with it and didn't really scratch it. That bag that came with it might scratch it though.
WrathOfOtaibah
Banned
That bag does scratch. That dead pixel I talked about with my PSP is some very small dent. Never even touched the area where it was at. The only way it could have been dented (wasn't there at the beginning, I would have noticed) was with the carrying case. I'm hoping my protector gets here by Friday.
SirFodderton
Member
The Experiment said:
I have 2 small dents like that but they were there right out of the box. But now with a screen protector it's hardly noticible at all.
Marty Chinn
Member
DarienA said:
Hey did anyone else besides me noticed that the feature on the PSP was enhanced for widescreen TVs?
vatstep
This poster pulses with an appeal so broad the typical restraints of our societies fall by the wayside.
I know what you're talking about. I have two tiny dots on my screen (pretty sure they were both there when at purchase) that I thought were faulty pixels at first. They're not really noticable in-game, but on the menu screen I can see them if I move the screen a bit. They look like they're reflecting the light.Seth C said:
I got wipeout pure yesterday (Thanks Aoi-san!) First impressions were bad. dull graphics, very slow, dodgy controls. Then I got into it some more and I love it. Some of the tracks are great. I thought the 2nd track on Beta was an instant favourite, with the hairpin etc. Then I played the last track on beta - the bit just after the start where you are going up, then bank left just as the 'wings' on the track come through the clouds, and the sun bursts over the edge of the track - just beautifully designed and choreographed.
BTW, do you go faster on a straight if you push your nose down? It seems to accelerate faster and go to a higher top speed, but it might just be where I try it. I don't want it to have some cheesy control that you can use to cheat or even need to use to win, and I don't want to have to keep pushing up all the time.
BTW, do you go faster on a straight if you push your nose down? It seems to accelerate faster and go to a higher top speed, but it might just be where I try it. I don't want it to have some cheesy control that you can use to cheat or even need to use to win, and I don't want to have to keep pushing up all the time.
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
Getting gold on first three zone tracks unlocks the fourth one right?
Ah, that's where the scratchy bag myth originates!
I can say with utmost certainty that many PSPs have those dents on the plastic that covers the screen, out of the box. I've noticed them on several PSPs so far, and some of them I've personally pulled out of the box and checked.
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
I've got no idea. I'm not using a screen protector. They usually ruin the screen quality just enough so that I hate them.
I'm starting to think the whole "YOU MUST BUY A SCREEN PROTECTOR" thing is the work of a very anal subset of people. These things are meant to be used, not kept in an airtight case. Mine fell off my coffee table face down onto the carpet and it was ok. If the screen were as susceptible to scratches as people would have you believe, certainly that would have done something.
