Sony Disses Apple iPhone Gaming in PSP Ad Video

yeah...but how do you defend PSP Go?

Good comercial, but the psp is meh

"Josh Rose
Kidding himself"

lol

Seriously though, I wouldn't buy either of them. Why game on an over-glorified calculator-sized slab when my i5-750/HD5870/22"/Crysis@+60FPS/8GBRAM...you get I'm saying =]

How about all the Apps I spend $.99 on and play for more hours than some of those games.

So Sony is defending itself from new and cheap iTouch/iPhone games by announcing some old games at 10 times the price.

Through all I'm concerned, the games that make the PSPgo worth it are Daxter, Ratcet and Clank, God of War, Patapon, and FF VII.
Realistically, there is far too much fud for the PSP.
PS: I prefer the go. I used the 16GB main memory for games, and 8GB for music.

The PSP needs a dramatic overhaul though. A second analog, smoother controls, and better games. I stopped using my PSP and just replaced it with a MP3 player with better battery life.

Right in Apple's balls!

Right in Apple's balls!

This does bring up the old, old question about dedicated machines versus flexible ones. i.e.: Do you buy a dedicated game machine _and_ another dedicated internet browser, etc. or do you buy one (probably more expensive, but) more flexible machine that does all (or most) of what you want. I can see the value of both, but, on a limited budget, the more flexible wins for me. (I own an Android device though, not an iThingy.)

iPhone has the worst games imaginable. Pretty useless when coupled with the fact that it has no controls for actually playing a game in the unlikely event that one worth playing is released.

Yea but can a PSP make and receive phone calls?

Better believe Sony is worried. And Nintendo too. I have two kids and my wife and I both have iPhones. You only need to buy that $1.99 app once and use it on multiple iPhones/iPods/iPads. Any of you with kids knows you're not going to let one kid have one title and not let the other one play. Therefore, those $9.99 PSP games would cost me $19.98 so both my kids could play at the same time.

And from what I've seen and experienced, five $1.99 games from the App Store provide more entertainment value than any $10 or $20 game I've seen on a PSP or Nintendo.

Now an iPad Mini with 5" screen would be an incredible portable gaming platform.

Spoken like a true hater who has never actually played games on an iPhone. Or maybe you think anything less than a full-blown PC game isn't worth playing, in which case any portable like Nintendo or PSP is worthless.

On texting your grandmother:

Assume, if you would: Child - 13.

Now, taking socioeconomic status into play (riding a school bus, but also having a phone), we can assume at least lower middle to middle class.

Well, if you look at the average birth age for first-time mothers in 1970 (about 40 years ago, earliest result a cursory google turned up.) you're looking at about 21.4. The average of birth in america right now (2006 statistic) is roughly 25. So...if the grandma was born in the late 50's early 60's putting them in their early- to mid-50's, Their daughter/son in their early-mid 20's and 30's...and the kid at 13? I would say all of those generations are pretty tech-savvy. So, texting your grandma? Wouldn't surprise me.

Now, if that kid were in college? Different story.

* Ape Escape: On the Loose
* Buzz! Master Quiz
* Hot Shots Golf Open Tee
* Justice League Heroes
* LocoRoco 2
* Manhunt 2
* Midway Arcade Treasures: Extended Play
* Patapon 2
* Pinball Hall of Fame
* PixelJunk Monster Deluxe
* Silent Hill: Origins
* The Sims 2
* SOCOM: Fireteam Bravo
* Syphon Filter: Logan’s Shadow
* Twisted Metal: Head On
* The Warriors
* Burnout Legends
* Capcom Classics Collection: Reloaded
* Capcom Classics Collection: Remix
* Dark Stalkers: Chaos Tower
* Need for Speed: Most Wanted
* Medal of Honor: Heroes
* Sid Meier’s Pirates
against 250'000 app'store apss? WTF?!?!?!

Damn straight.

IPhone = minigames.
PSP = hardcore games.
That's a fact

That marcus kid reminds me of the kid from Role Models. XD

i apologize if i offended anyone in any way.

i don't care, doesn't make me like him more.

the way he acts and talks. i know the difference, i lived in NYC my entire life.

lol i know its hard to come off as not racist as i point out he's black so often... i apologize for that, but i stand by my ghetto hatred.

Lol, that's because he IS that kid Oh the irony.

[citation]eklipz330
lol i know its hard to come off as not racist as i point out he's black so often... i apologize for that, but i stand by my ghetto hatred.[/quote]

Lol@racism, the kid is actually an accomplished actor and has been on sitcoms and in major blockbuster movies for years, he is anything but ghetto. Try not to be so racist and ignorant next time, kthanxbye.

Your right, he's probably from the suburbs which make him even more dangerous. I've got no problems with race, I'm in an interracial marriage even. But lifestyle promotion is the issue. Keep "ghetto life" out of the mainstream. It's more than likely the cause of the 8 times greater violent crime ratio in the African American community than the white.

I'd present statistical analysis but since its not written solely in 1's and 0's and contains references to sex or drug use, I'm sure it'd go over the heads of the majority on these forums.

Racist people...


Are racist

I think the commercial is cool. I think the kid is funny and pretty damned witty. There only place I see racism is from you "politically correct" a-holes pretending to not have a racial biased. Take my advice and don't overthink this one. It just a GD commercial!

Uhhh.... Yeah it can. well...the new one can with skype.

maybe ad a phone to the PSP?

PSP and DS have their place in the gaming ecosystem. Personally I don't really have use for one since if I'm not at home, I'm driving and thus not playing games.

You are 100% correct about one thing: I haven't played games on the iPhone. Since there's nothing on an iPhone that could even by the wildest stretch of the imagination be called a game -- I haven't played any.

I have had them handed to me occasionally to try, but fishing gets boring pretty quick (there's a reason why I don't do it IRL). I also tried "Copyright Infringement with Friends" which was lame compared to the game it blatantly plagiarized. So far nothing I've seen has compelled me to install any of them on my iPad.

When they start porting Id Tech 5 games to the Iphone, the PSP is going to look like the garbage product it is.

the PSP 3000 I just bought while I was in Japan about 2 weeks ago does indeed have Skype on it, so yes, you can use it as a phone, just limited to being in range of WiFi, though in Japan, free wireless hotspots are like every few meters >.>

Nothing new for Sony at all to diss other companies. Seems like most/every major conference they have a shot at others.

Don't think it's such a bad thing - it's advertising that gets people talking. So, mission accomplished.

http://www.skype.com/intl/en/get-s [...] /download/

Look at the bottom of the page, Research before you speak.

Sony has a point. now to watch my HD movies on the iPhone.