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"The Cartman" is simply something I'll never buy.
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Right now my issues are mostly firmware, to be honest, with one hardware exception. The firmware illogically lists DLC in the same folder as your actual games. So if I buy more songs to go along with that Rock Band Unplugged Lite version, I get a listing of EVERY SONG to skip around when I open up my games tab to play something lower on the list. Not terrible if you're like me and don't buy DLC often, but I'm sure for the RB fanatics it will be an issue.
Sorting in general needs to be better. I don't own an M2 card, but Sony needs to come up with a solution to make it appear to the user as if they are one large block of memory, combined, rather than 2 separate pieces. Again, optionally is best. Sorting in general is poor on the PSP firmware. (Options to sort should follow PS3's options--nuff said)
I was disappointed that I never realized there is no friends list on PSP. Not that online is the most important thing on the portable, but with bluetooth modem connectivity, and more potential to be "always online", I'd like to see a friends list come into play. Most people in the same time zone commute at the same time--why not play online together by bluetooth tethering in the mornings? A friends list would help.
My one major hardware issue is simply that the thing is still running 802.11b. What the hell? I know it's not a hardware CAPABILITIES revision, but even the ORIGINAL PSP should have had G wireless. And the N standard is ready to go. Boosting to G wouldn't help everyone, but it would help some, like myself, who have a 25/15 connection (overkill, but it's the lowest speed FiOS offers in my area right now) and are stuck on B network speeds...The Go will slow down my mixed B/G network, so I'm actually putting in an EXTRA router so as not to slow down traffic to the rest of my network!!!
Otherwise, everything feels pretty solid. A lot of people talked about how it has no metal frame...that honestly doesn't bother me. It's very sturdy, and because it's so tightly packed, there's not a whole lot of space for anything to move internally anyway, I'd imagine, which means a more stable platform. It would be nice to have that metal--weight was never the issue for me with the older PSP, but I'm not putting it into any dangerous situations right now, so I'm pretty confident even having it in my bag during my commute to/from work will not cause it any harm.
...hope that helps?
(Also, disappointing PSN update yesterday--Sony needs to put pressure on big companies like Square Enix and Konami, AKA Final Fantasy and Metal Gear Solid, to bring future titles AS WELL AS past legacy UMD titles to the store. But I can dedicate my time to a LOOOOOONG list of games I'd never played since I didn't own a PSP before this...
10/09/09
The old interface was clean for what it was, but was never designed with DLC in mind. A simple addition of "folders" like what the PS3 has seems so sensible that it's a wonder it hasn't materialized yet. I wanna organize my drive, dammit!
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Love the pause game feature.
Don't really like where the volume button is but that's just cause my fingers are a bit fat. Like I said in my review, if you're on the fence, the holiday's are nearby, just put it on your wish list. It's great.
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Cons: It feels kind of flimsy sometimes because of the lack of weight. WHY NO 2nd ANALOG STICK??????? There's plenty of room for one. The price stinks like poo. I wish ALL old UMD games were available on the PSN, but I suppose it's just a matter of time.
10/09/09
I think most developers would take the broader base at this point, rendering a second analog virtually useless. And then there would have been untold amounts of bitching about that.
10/09/09
I'm planning on using it to download the new monster hunter and play ps1 classics from the playstation store, along with using it as an mp3 player.
The existing psp without a hard drive wouldnt make too good an mp3 player i'm guessing.
Help?
10/09/09
I did a 1gb playlist and got 187 songs based off Blink 182's "Party Song" I heard such an eclectic mix of music ranging from The Cure, to U2, to even some Adam Sandler skits off his first album. If you don't make a playlist like this, you can load up your albums like you normal would, then go to the SenseMe application on the pspGO, which is run like a game (meaning if you've 'paused' a game, you will lose that data to launch this app) This lets you choose b/t 8 different moods and fills the songs in like that. Only gripe is if you only have a few albums, songs will likely repeat over any set of certain moods.
So yes, it's very effective as an mp3 player, as like I've said, been using it for an hour a day on my commute to work, and the battery just now needs to be re-charged today. Get off the fence and get one already! You won't feel bad once you see great it is.
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WAIT! all my music, at the moment is on itunes, copied from my ipod, will the pspgo be able to sort these out for me or will i lose an afternoon?
also, album art?
10/09/09
Album art is fine, my 10,000 track full album collection is on an external drive. Once I had MediaGo sniff out the directory I wanted, library importing started. All my folders have a folder.jpg for the cover, so I'm sure this helped. Then the SenseMe tagging starts, this took almost 4 hours to go through all the tracks. What's really neat is that if I don't have the ext HDD plugged in, album art still shows up as thumbnails, however the tracks are greyed out to indicate they are not accessible.
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I do not own a psp-go now, but I do own the first release of the psp-1000. Its old but its in a fairly good condition. I've had it for years and years. Now I'm thinking about an upgrade. I did read tons and tons of Anti&positive-pspgo articles & threads and I have to say both opinions are agreeable.
However, I won't give my opinion on it till I ACTUALLY try it hands on rather than using logic to give opinions(most articles I read seems to be using logic to emphasis their pros and cons, although it does make it persuasive).
Now on to my message:
I wanted to ask the members here reading this article on Kotaku if someone has already tried one of the following.
-Has anyone living in the US bought a game from PSN Japan? Well, using the PSN Japan yen tickets. Did it actually work?
I really do like buying imported games.
-So, like Patapon 2(US), does the digital distribution thing allows you to share 3 (or was it 5?) games to other psp owners? Or is that limited to certain games? Or just only for Patapon 2? -If this is present with the digital distribution, then this becomes a huge plus IMO.
If somebody would confirm this it would help me a lot since Im really interested in buying the psp-go. Only those two, that are seemingly unconfirmed right now (read that imports were said to be POSSIBLE, but didn't see any confirmation on that)
Thank you
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I don't like about it that Brian Ashcraft got one for free and I did not. ;)
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Active game pausing - If you are in the middle of a game, pressing the Playstation button will bring up a menu giving you the choice of pausing the game you are on. This is a true right-then-and-there in game pause as opposed to last save point. Kudos!
Built in rubber/silicone grippers on the back of the device - This only helps an otherwise slippery device.
Bluetooth pairing - Yep, if you have a bluethooth equiped cell phone and a data plan you don't need WiFi close by to play online.
CONS:
A little too size efficient - As the Go is a smaller device, they had to be a bit more economical with the real estate with regards to button placement. The result? It's hard to hold the Go without accidentally pressing SOMETHING. This makes it imperative that you have the L/R shoulder buttons set to "Do Not Use" on the Video Settings menu so when holding it you don't bump over to the next movie. Another thing, because the Go powers up on nudging the sliding screen just 1/8th of an inch up, you are going to have to use the Hold function on the power button when the unit is powered off.
Too thin when opened - The Go feels great in hand when closed, not too thin, not too thin. But sliding it open suddenly you are holding mostly the lower half of the device, with extra emphasis on "half". This takes getting used to.
Useless battery meter - Used to be you could go to the System Settings menu and bring up percentage of battery life left. No more, the only indicator you get now is a three section battery meter in the upper right hand corner and it is almost never accurate. Was this a universal system update or is this just on the Go?
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