Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Andrew Partington Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: PSX Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 18:25:48 +0000 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: public2-ward1-6-cust140.oldh.broadband.ntl.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030313 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Nigel Critten wrote: > With this and the PSP things are beginning to look interesting again, I > was worried about the size of the PSP (no pictures or anything yet so > just in my mind) but the use of a miniDVD in a cartridge medium, but I > saw a Sony MiniDisc and its smaller than the GBA SP, stick a Screen on > it and its going to be really nice, alright you have to add a bit for > the joystick etc. but I think Sony are going in the right direction. > > Cheers > Nigel > www.100tinsoldiers.com > Yeah, i'm especially looking forward to the PSP though. I don't think there will be any shortage of developers wanting to get their hands on it. (PSP devkit, please!) If Sony could make the PSP backwards compatible with existing MiniDisc titles (and build in a nice sound->light generator, something like the later PS1 revisions but better), then that really would be a piece of killer hardware IMHO, sales would go through the roof. (looking round at my MiniDisc collection and wishing). I suppose it depends on whether that new disk will fit into a MiniDisc shell. Wonder if they'll do away with the D-pad altogether, and just use the analogue on/off button to save space on the device? Might be a bit odd for some games unless there was some way of letting you know which direction you've pressed - something like an analogue version of the NeoGeo Pocket Color stick would be good (if that's possible). Andy P