PSP Touch
I decided to turn my comment here:
http://technologizer.com/2009/01/13/wild-prediction-new-game-consoles-in-2010-2011/#comment-7614
into a blog post. The discussion topic was
"Wild Prediction: New Game Consoles in 2010, 2011"
My money is the next big game system from Sony will be a new PSP with a touch screen, and a smaller form factor.
The PS3 hardware is fine. Launching a new portable game console will re invogorate the Sony gaming brand, which should peripherally help the PS3.
The IPod touch is eating this market by itself right now. Small, affordable wifi device that is good for gaming. The lack of buttons though makes it it really imperfect as a gaming device. A PSP touch could better deliver.
It'd be tempting to add more feature, but they would do well to try to keep the price, and form factor, down.
There are already a LOT of people using the web browser on the PSP already. The control on it is good enough to effectively navigate an on screen keyboard, and its rich display goes a long way.
I'd love to see them ditch their current propietary format for the device. Let user's download content OTA. Sell games over a DRM'd SD cards, but let the device use the same hardware to read regular SD cards.
Get flash working on it and you could have one of the best mobile browsers out there.
If we were going further into my wishlist I'd say throw a standard Sun J2ME JVM on it so you can download your standard cell phone apps, IM, mail etc.
But all this can be in later versions, first they just have to put a touch screen on your standard PSP and ship it again :)
http://technologizer.com/2009/01/13/wild-prediction-new-game-consoles-in-2010-2011/#comment-7614
into a blog post. The discussion topic was
"Wild Prediction: New Game Consoles in 2010, 2011"
My money is the next big game system from Sony will be a new PSP with a touch screen, and a smaller form factor.
The PS3 hardware is fine. Launching a new portable game console will re invogorate the Sony gaming brand, which should peripherally help the PS3.
The IPod touch is eating this market by itself right now. Small, affordable wifi device that is good for gaming. The lack of buttons though makes it it really imperfect as a gaming device. A PSP touch could better deliver.
It'd be tempting to add more feature, but they would do well to try to keep the price, and form factor, down.
There are already a LOT of people using the web browser on the PSP already. The control on it is good enough to effectively navigate an on screen keyboard, and its rich display goes a long way.
I'd love to see them ditch their current propietary format for the device. Let user's download content OTA. Sell games over a DRM'd SD cards, but let the device use the same hardware to read regular SD cards.
Get flash working on it and you could have one of the best mobile browsers out there.
If we were going further into my wishlist I'd say throw a standard Sun J2ME JVM on it so you can download your standard cell phone apps, IM, mail etc.
But all this can be in later versions, first they just have to put a touch screen on your standard PSP and ship it again :)
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posted by Matt Kanninen at
10:08 PM
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