PSP Media

[sheik124]

this is just my .02, and i wanna know if anyone agrees
i find it highly stupid to use optical media in a handheld, i mean, no matter how much work you do for ESP or whatever they call shock protection these days (thats what its called on my Walkman, go sony) it can still skip. and skipping in games would be more dramamtic than in music cause if you're listening to a cd, its not like you are doing anything to control what its producing (sound) but when you're playing a game and it starts to lag up, uh oh, there's a problem, i'm pretty sure most people would get sick of it
personally, my gba goes everywhere with me, bus, airplane, car, truck, van, whatever, and sitting at the back of the bus makes my "OMG OMG ESP 40 Seconds OMG!" walkman CHOKE, imagine what it'd do to a PSP. thumbs up nintendo, "cartridges are the way to go"

 

[jollyrancher]

I sometimes use my sister's Sony Minidisc player for jogging and I don't think it's ever skipped... it's not like CD players.

 

[Gorxon]

Just a question, how often do you plan on jogging with your PSP while playing games on it...? As I really don't think a car trip is bumpy enough to give enought rouble that a simple buffering system can't handle. Not to mention that you're holding it in your hands all the time which really reduces the effect the bumps in the road may have on the system, since your arms works as springs or whatever you would like to call it.

 

[smegforbrain]

The point is still valid, Gorxon, since you would likely use it on places like public transportation.

 

[GogoTheMimic]

This still doesn't remedy the problem that the media must be spun to even be read which kills battery life as we all know.

 

[Hexidecimal]

Actually, the minidisc format almost never skips, i mean, ive dropped my minidisc player, and unless it opens, it never, ever skips. I don't think you'll have to worry about it with the UMDs

 

[Gorxon]

The point is still valid, Gorxon, since you would likely use it on places like public transportation.

Well, as I mentioned I think a simple buffer system would prevent this in almost all cases (riding in car etc, not jogging).

But I am only guessing, and I think I'd rather get a DS... :icecream:

 

[smegforbrain]

Well, everybody needs a Dumb System now and then.

 

[blizz]

I'd like neither actually, I'd like a true successor to the GBA with a touch screen instead of the DS.

The concept of the touch screen is far more interesting than that of dual screens because you tend to focus on the action in games, and if that action leaps across to another screen it'll interupt the flow of a game. I'm not saying there aren't games that can be made to exploit it. I'm just saying that the touch screen was the better idea.

 

[sheik124]

the drive will waste battery power as many have said, cause its a motor, and somethings gotta power it, you'd need a pretty bug buffer if this were a gaming console