Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: sosman@terratron.com (Steven Osman) Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Portable Playstation at E3 Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 17:45:56 GMT Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 67 Message-ID: <390192fc.137445626@news.playstation.co.uk> References: <38FF30DE.7BAA6F31@easynet.co.uk> <8dnjp5$5rg1@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <38FF6E3F.31F9EB92@easynet.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.27.57.69 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.5/32.452 I think hard drives are a really bad move personally. "Think of the possibilities" they tell us, streaming media, software patches/updates, downloaded games and all that jazz. What I think of is this: Garbage. I honestly hate having to sift through my HD to free up disk space. There's so much trash left over in my computer, when technically, it's all stuff that I installed myself. In a game console, I suppose a lot of this stuff is supposed to be installed behind the scenes, try cleaning that mess up? The only space management needed in a console so far was with memory cards. There are a reasonably small number of save games in a memory card, so it's not too hard to identify them and remove the ones you want. If you don't feel like going through that, you could always just buy a new memory card. Are people going to buy new hard drives when they fill up? Once again, "Think of the possibilities" the console developers tell us. My response is "Think of the irresponsible software vendors". They'll just litter the drive with trash and it will become an unmanageable mess. Steven On Thu, 20 Apr 2000 21:53:19 +0100, Philip Gooch wrote: >Hmm, yeah, it does sound a bit far out. Such a machine would probably >run on a rechargeable power pack (like some MiniDisc recorders) rather >than AAs. And it would need to be expensive - portable DVD players cost >about £700. > >Still, the GameBoy Color is the biggest-selling console on the planet >right now, and maybe Sony want to grab a piece of the action. > >All this hard drive stuff we're hearing about: XBox and now PS2. It's >going to get to the point where you might as well get a PC - by the time >you've added on the cost for the hard drive and the modem, there won't >be much in it, price-wise. > >Phil > >Derek da Silva wrote: > >> > Rob, George: do you know anything about this? >> > >> > Goodbye GameBoy Color... >> > >> > PhilA handheld PlayStation is a nice idea (and great rumour >> material) but I'm not sure it'd be feasible. Compatibility >> (multi-player etc) would be tricky. The screen would be a big >> problem. It'd need to be at least 76,800 pixels just to support >> 320*240. Handheld TVs of a similar resolution and a 2.5" screen cost >> well over $100 and require 3 or 4 AA batteries. Power consumption. I >> think SONY claim around 16 hours with 2 AA batteries for a mid-range >> Discman, but we'd need to run a double speed drive, and the PS chipset >> and screen as well. SONY would have to subsidise the console to make >> it affordable, but users would be able to use their existing >> collection of PS games i.e. SONY would have little hope of recovering >> their hardware losses in new software sales. Besides all that, sitting >> on the train waiting for Driver to load would make me go a bit mental >> ;-) Derek The PS2 modem/hard drive rumour is much more interesting ;-)