They are spreading themselves way too thin with all these gaming devices. Fuck, give me a NGP that can make phone calls.
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They are spreading themselves way too thin with all these gaming devices. Fuck, give me a NGP that can make phone calls.
The release is kinda perfect for me. That gives them 5 months to work out the bugs and release a better model in time for my current contract to expire. Or, it gives the thing time to fail spectacularly before I will get one.
Agreed on spread too thin. Disagree on the NGP with phone. If you're going to drop one, drop the NGP.
The Xperia:
*isn't ganking the Neo Geo Pocket's name
*already has a phone
*also has the rest of the Android shit meaning...
*...it can play classic emulators...
*...on a device that finally has a damn d-pad!
This does everything you would ever need in a portable aside from being an iThingy. But if it was an iThingy it wouldn't have emulation or any buttons, so I suppose there will be no all-in-one for now. It's the NGP that puzzles me. What purpose can that thing possibly serve over this?
NGP is probably a code name. We'll see PSP2 logos at E3 I would think. And the purpose it serves is that it's not completely underpowered like this is. It doesn't even have a dual core CPU, when a lot of the other Android devices coming out now are.
Still, why does the NGP/PSP2 exist? For the non-Verizon public? If so just put out a cheaper non-phone Xperia with a wifi connection.
You're missing what I am saying. The Xperia Play is weak as fuck. I suspect my iPhone 3GS can run more advanced games than it can. On the other hand, the NGP just massacres every other portable device out there. Then again, I wouldn't buy a portable for emulators in the first place. I never got a GP32 or any of the similar systems, so that's not going to sell me one of these. And the native stuff just doesn't measure up the iOS games.
It's more powerful than the PSP. What else could it possibly need to do to play portable games?
In 2005? Nothing. The PSP is six years old. It's not much of a benchmark anymore.
No one is going to buy this. Everyone's already stuck in contracts and the current Droid lineup smokes this weak piece of shit.
They should have spent their time making a Playstation Droid controller solution and a Droid PSN with games that people actually care about. That sort of thing would make money, not this. Hell, a PSP phone would make more money than this.
I'm giving it six months before Sony claims is was an important venture for market research and that they have "learned much" from it.