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I liked the PSP Go a lot. I bought one as soon as the Wololo hacks came out and didn't look back. The screen had the wider color gamut of the PSP 3000 model but without the weird scanline issue. The smaller size also made the pixel density of the low 480x272 resolution a lot more bearable.

Along with the GBA Micro, it's also one of the few legitimately portable consoles i've ever owned ie. you can throw this thing in a jeans pocket. Only downside was it felt a bit cramped to play, but that's naturally going to happen when shrinking everything down. The sliding design revealing the buttons was cool and I remember using the closed mode's novel bedside clock.

I'd say it was also kind of a proto-Switch. You could use a component TV out cable to play on the big screen. If you had a Dual Shock 3 controller, you could also sync that with bluetooth for comfier play. The Go is still a great way to play PS1 games in 240p to this day for these reasons:


Similarly to Vita, I don't see a world where the Go could have been a success, but with custom firmware Sony handhelds are some of the GOATs.
 
Flavius Anthemius said:
Most of their hardware sucked and still sucks. They had pretty good sound systems back in the day though, their Walkmam line up was solid for a very long time.
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Flavius Anthemius said:
Most of their hardware sucked and still sucks. They had pretty good sound systems back in the day though, their Walkman line up was solid for a very long time.

Edit: spelling
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You shut up The Vaio was peak 90's
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It was a purple computer that had it's case with sliding doors to hide any and all visible buttons and drives. It also came with it's own program that acted as a skin over the OS where you were inside a 3D floating cube hovering over a 360 degree shot of a real life or 3d generated panoramic environment that could rotate(that's what's on the screen).

The cube would also play Videos from Odyssey Into The Mind's Eye

It also came with Microsoft 3D Movie Maker
 
SSj_Ness said:
Possibly artificial scarcity, and nobody can really question it this time. If I were Sony I'd be afraid to see what happens if I have a shelf full of consoles and the only games I have to try to push them are trash.
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It's not artificial scarcity, it's genuine scarcity. They prioritize certain regions each month to try and allocate supply. The regions have tended to change from month to month. But the system is already in larger supply than it was at launch.

If scarcity wasn't an issue they wouldn't be building a new chip factory.

Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC on Tuesday confirmed a previously negotiated deal for a US$7 billion deal to build its first-ever semiconductor chip plant in Japan with Sony Semiconductor Solutions (SSS) Corporation, a Sony subsidiary.

This news comes amidst an ongoing global chip shortage that has affected supplies for and prices of goods, from vehicles, to paint, to consumer goods.

Earlier last month, Tech Wire Asia reported that the two companies were in talks to jointly build a chip factory in Japan’s Kumamoto Prefecture. The Taiwanese chipmaker had announced plans to commence construction of the factory in 2022.

This week, both parties sealed the deal for a US$7 billion plant, which is expected to be fully operational by 2024.
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Titos said:
It'll go down the same way as all the other times Bungie tried something new, horrifically. Let's see what kind of development stupidity has happened throughout their history
-Shipped a game with a bug so bad it would basically destroy your computer
-Had to change genres multiple times on a single project
-Spent almost an entire year putting all their work into a demo using tech that was clearly not going to make the final product. Proceeded to cut the game in half and stitch together stuff while hoping it made sense.
-Sent the writer of their previous game to fuck around in New Zealand and write a book, some characters get utterly fucked and the story isn't all that interesting because of this
-Created a really unique world with a fleshed out story, then decided to throw it all in the trash a year before their games release date, launched the game with no story and no content
-Created an engine that is so uniquely shit the devs have removed 1/3rd of the game because the size is making the engine have a stroke

Anyone with hope for nu-Bungie is a fool. Bungie made retard mistakes left and right, and that was when there were competent people at the studio making sure they actually figured shit out in the end. Now with all the diversity hires taking up positions and everyone who was competent leaving it's going to be worse. It wouldn't surprise me if during the development of their next game they accidentally create a hyper-virulant and lethal version of HIV instead of a videogame. They're that incompetent.
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That’s pretty much what is happening with Respawn and Apex Legends. The older, competent founding team did all the heavy lifting and hard work of figuring out the engine and gameplay design, now the diversity hires are maintaining the game to keep the money churning on EA’s sole profitable FPS IP. All the veteran talent is gone and the founder is off trying to bail out DICE and Battlefield.

EA is fucked as soon as they want Respawn to come up with a new shooter. The Apex team won’t be able to do anything else.

Side note; concerning Blockbuster doing their version of Netflix. Blockbuster didn’t enter the market too late, they entered it with too much debt to start something new. Viacom fucked the company over when they owned it and recklessly took out all the capital and left it with bad debt when they spun it off. It was really shitty especially with Blockbuster trying to reinvent itself.
 
SSj_Ness said:
Wouldn't be the first time, just saying.
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You have auto manufacturers needing to sell cars without the infotainment system because there's a lack of components.

This isn't something that they would normally do.

ellroy said:
Side note; concerning Blockbuster doing their version of Netflix. Blockbuster didn’t enter the market too late, they entered it with too much debt to start something new. Viacom fucked the company over when they owned it and recklessly took out all the capital and left it with bad debt when they spun it off. It was really shitty especially with Blockbuster trying to reinvent itself.
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That was similar to what Bain Capital did to Toys R Us, however during corona they somehow unfucked themselves and started to re-enter the retail space.

Blockbuster the brand now currently exists as something more profitable as nostalgia. But then again that's regional, there were many parts of the US that had other rental chains be the dominant one.
 
ellroy said:
That’s pretty much what is happening with Respawn and Apex Legends. The older, competent founding team did all the heavy lifting and hard work of figuring out the engine and gameplay design, now the diversity hires are maintaining the game to keep the money churning on EA’s sole profitable FPS IP. All the veteran talent is gone and the founder is off trying to bail out DICE and Battlefield.

EA is fucked as soon as they want Respawn to come up with a new shooter. The Apex team won’t be able to do anything else.

Side note; concerning Blockbuster doing their version of Netflix. Blockbuster didn’t enter the market too late, they entered it with too much debt to start something new. Viacom fucked the company over when they owned it and recklessly took out all the capital and left it with bad debt when they spun it off. It was really shitty especially with Blockbuster trying to reinvent itself.
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Apex sucks ass and it's why I don't want Titanfall 3. I don't think Steve Fukuda even works there anymore, everyone is at Infinity Ward again now.

Blockbuster did alot of things while they were dying, and nobody remembers half the attempts. Even before they died they were putting out weird stuff, like this for example. Who would ever pay for such a thing?
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I don't know, that's not a terrible deal for the time. Kinda seems like GameFly, I guess?
 
Titos said:
Apex sucks ass and it's why I don't want Titanfall 3. I don't think Steve Fukuda even works there anymore, everyone is at Infinity Ward again now.

Blockbuster did alot of things while they were dying, and nobody remembers half the attempts. Even before they died they were putting out weird stuff, like this for example. Who would ever pay for such a thing?
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I actually remember that and that was before Netflix started out as a streaming service.

Concerning Apex, it is actually my favorite shooter right now which sucks because of how Pozed the game is. The gameplay is solid but everything surrounding it is annoying. I don’t want Titanfall 3 too because I don’t trust EA to do it right at all. Although Titanfall may have been a doomed franchise from the very beginning but that’s a topic for another thread.
 
ellroy said:
I actually remember that and that was before Netflix started out as a streaming service.

Concerning Apex, it is actually my favorite shooter right now which sucks because of how Pozed the game is. The gameplay is solid but everything surrounding it is annoying. I don’t want Titanfall 3 too because I don’t trust EA to do it right at all. Although Titanfall may have been a doomed franchise from the very beginning but that’s a topic for another thread.
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I think the general state of Shooters is that the market's audience knows what it wants and they do not want to deviate from what already exists.

Like if you were to make a multiplayer shooter with weapons from like the N64 Turok games, that would throw many through the loop because of how unorthodox the weapons are. So something like titanfall where you introduce mech combat created a layer of unfamiliarity.
 

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Marissa Moira said:
I think the general state of Shooters is that the market's audience knows what it wants and they do not want to deviate from what already exists.

Like if you were to make a multiplayer shooter with weapons from like the N64 Turok games, that would throw many through the loop because of how unorthodox the weapons are. So something like titanfall where you introduce mech combat created a layer of unfamiliarity.
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I disagree with this notion, due to the current renaissance of boomer shooters that has been on the PC for years now.

Also there was Turok multiplayer-only shooter on the N64, called Turok: Rage Wars. Also, Titanfall isn't a difficult game to learn. Titanfall 2 failed due to it being Buck Broken by the other two big shooters.
Marissa Moira said:
It's not artificial scarcity, it's genuine scarcity. They prioritize certain regions each month to try and allocate supply. The regions have tended to change from month to month. But the system is already in larger supply than it was at launch.
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It was pretty artificial. Most of the chips were pretty much being used to build video cards (PC hardware market has more cash at hand to throw than console mfg) which was then in turn were being sold at scalper prices. If you think I'm bullshitting you, look at the used video card market on eBay now. I was able to score a 3080ti for 900 bucks recently.
 
SSj_Ness said:
I don't know, that's not a terrible deal for the time. Kinda seems like GameFly, I guess?
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I was joking about the name. The only shitty part of the deal would be that you'd have to go to the store and the game has to be available. Better than Gamefly though, I had a membership with them for a year when I had a PSP and there were never any games available, that might just be a PSP problem though. Redbox used to be great for renting games but they don't do it anymore for some reason, it's how I played all of Sonys first party output for the PS4 since all their games have shit that actively makes them a pain to replay.
 
Titos said:
I was joking about the name. The only shitty part of the deal would be that you'd have to go to the store and the game has to be available. Better than Gamefly though, I had a membership with them for a year when I had a PSP and there were never any games available, that might just be a PSP problem though. Redbox used to be great for renting games but they don't do it anymore for some reason, it's how I played all of Sonys first party output for the PS4 since all their games have shit that actively makes them a pain to replay.
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RedBox messed up removing games, I never use them anymore now.
 
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