You could also say it’s just the square root of 39,996, or maybe the circumference of a circle that’s 63.66 units in diameter, but that’s just plain silly. Alternatively, you could just save $30 and buy the chunkier model that still plays UMDs.
[Via Joystiq]
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PSP Go is $200 at Fry’s this weekend… err, ‘$249.99 before $50 savings’ originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Nintendo’s Reggie Fils-Aime has been known to take a few shots at the competition in the past and, while he’s not exactly verging into
CE-oh no he didn’t territory this time around, it seems that he just couldn’t help himself from offering a few thoughts on Sony’s latest handheld. Speaking with
The Washington Post, Reggie says that the
PSP Go has a “fundamental concept problem in terms of ‘Who’s it for?’ and ‘What’s the benefit?” — adding that he always has the “utmost respect for all our competitors, but that it’s “interesting to try and answer the consumer question of ‘What’s in it for me?’ in that product.” Of course, Sony does have a
few answers to those questions for its part,
sort of.
[Via Joystiq]
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Nintendo’s Reggie Fils-Aime says the PSP Go has a ‘fundamental concept problem’ originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Nothing really new here — the ESRB has been charging a nominal fee to get its saucy logos on your game for years upon years now — but the discussion of fairness has recently surfaced with the introduction of Sony’s UMD-less PSP Go. A few game developers are voicing concerns about the amount the ESRB charges (we’re hearing around $2,500) in order for their titles to receive a rating, particularly when those very same titles don’t have such a costly requirement in Apple’s App Store. Subatomic Studios, for instance, can charge $2.99 for the iPhone version of Fieldrunners, while the same game is priced at $6.99 on the PlayStation Store. Naturally, the ESRB would love to get in on App Store ratings, but it’s hard to say just how long (if ever) that cracking process will take. So, any of you devs put off by the ESRB fee? Put off enough to sidestep PSP Go development altogether?
[Via Joystiq]
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Sony PSP Go game dev taken aback by lofty ESRB rating costs originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Needless to say, none of this applies to the Americans in attendance, but for international PSP Go buyers looking forward to taking advantage of Sony’s PSP Go Rewards program, the always user-friendly DRM seems to be putting a solid kink in those enjoyment plans. According to a growing number of users at the official European PlayStation boards, an error by the name of 80109D53 is causing downloaded titles to not play back on the new handhelds. We’re told that Sony is aware of the issue and is toiling away in an effort to fix things, but for now, it seems as if you can sidestep some of the risk by downloading your trio of free titles (which Sony offers if you’re an existing UMD owner) directly to the PSP Go rather than sideloading ‘em from a PS3. Any others having this issue? Figured out a solution? Shoot your mouth off in comments below.
[Thanks, James]
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PSP Go Rewards program hitting DRM-laced brick wall originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Like it or not, the PSP Go is loose in the wild, sashaying around with neither physical media nor respect for sensible price-points. Nevertheless, it has generated a rather sizeable boost in interest for the PSP platform as a whole, with Sony saying that sales for all PSPs are up 300 percent over the week before the console launched. It’s easy to see why, given the buzz surrounding the new iteration of the hardware as well as the hugely anticipated Gran Turismo finally coming to fruition. What we don’t know is how many of those new sales were of the Go and how many were of the existing PSP-3000, a stat that would have shown whether indeed the “aspirational” new system would inspire some to just go ahead and buy the old system instead. We know which we would choose, how about you?
[Via gamesindustry.biz]
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PSP Go launch inspires three-fold sales increase for platform originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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If we were tickled by how quickly
the PSP Go was hacked, we must say that we’re surprised at how long it took for this bad boy to get KIRFed. And as most shanzai manufacturers do, they packed as many features into this portable as they could: 4.3-inch display (compared to the PSP Go’s 3.8-incher), all kinds of retro gaming support (including NES/Famicom, Gameboy / Gameboy Color, SNES, SFC), a camera of some sort, FM radio, microSD card slot (the device’s only form of storage), TV out, and generous video codes: RM, RMVB, AVI, WMV, ASF, MPG, MPEG, MPE, MP4, DAT, and MOV. Not exactly
“aspirational” at $84, but we’ll take it nonetheless.
[Via PMP Today]
Filed under: Gaming, Portable Audio, Portable Video
Keepin’ it real fake, part CCXXXVII: PXP-2000 aspires to little more than playing NES games, a host of video formats originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Very rarely are we rendered speechless by a mod, but we
have just seen a video that seriously blew our minds. It seems that someone called JoblessPunk DESIGNS has managed to imbue a PSP Slim with dual nubs (more on that in the video below), a second USB port for charging, a camera, custom firmware (for emulators and the like), and switched out the UMD for 32GB flash memory. But that’s only the beginning: this gentleman is on a mission to single-handedly destroy the PSP Go by bringing his own vision of handheld gaming to the masses — and to help him do just that he’s put together one hell of an infomercial, complete with multiple camera angles, a vintage cable access set, and a truly mystifying soundtrack. See for yourself after the break. KK THANKS BYE
[Thanks, Robin]
Continue reading PSP O Rly? Modder adds camera, custom firmware to Slim, films own infomercial
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PSP O Rly? Modder adds camera, custom firmware to Slim, films own infomercial originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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As you’d expect, as soon as the
PSP Go hit the shelves the homebrew community came out in force, looking to see which of its fave hacks and exploits might have made the trip from the original PSP to its UMD-less brethren. And here we are, with two videos posted by YouTube member Freeplay offering us tantalizing proof that indeed, at least one has. Of course, the whole thing is pretty rudimentary, the result of exploiting a known bug in an existing PSP game (which this particular hacker is remaining tight-lipped about rather than see Sony patch the thing). Karl B., who helped us to this one, provides a caveat: “It’s user-mode only, meaning no flash modification, no piracy, no advanced custom themes, no plug-ins — none of that.” All the same, it does our inner geek a sliver of hope, doesn’t it? Videos after the break.
[Via PSP Updates, Exophase]
Continue reading Video: PSP Go hacked, says ‘hello world!’
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Video: PSP Go hacked, says ‘hello world!’ originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 04 Oct 2009 14:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Who knows what it is about the PSP that engenders such a loyal following of hackers — both on the hardware and software side. Some of the hardware hacks we’ve seen are no doubt more impressive than others, but they’re all united in a common disregard for warranties and for the most part a deep affection for LEDs. The first PSP Go mod we’ve seen, done up by roro3030 over at AcidMods, keeps things simple with some strategic, tasteful white LED placement. It’s all internally powered and pretty seamless, and provides a nice jumping off point for a community that will be no-doubt eager to consume the PSP Go as a new challenge — even if the rest of us are busy making frowny faces at that endlessly derided price tag. Video of the lit-up Go is after the break.
Continue reading PSP Go scores its first mod job, a handful of white LEDs find a new purpose in life
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PSP Go scores its first mod job, a handful of white LEDs find a new purpose in life originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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