Sony's Next Gen Portable (NGP)

I may go back to psp for this. I had 3 and broke them all, so I gave up. But I do much better with portable electronics now.
 
FATALiiTYz said:
http://www.cnet.com.au/sony-ngp-339308817.htm

I'm pretty impressed, 2ghz Quad Core, 800mhz GPU, 5" OLED 960 x 540 screen. What more could you want?

Hopefully it would support 1080p videos, otherwise it'd be a waste of a 2ghz quad core :)

Out of curiosity, which would you prefer, a 3DS or a NGP?
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NGP every day. Having seen the 3DS being used, it looks awful. Unless you are sat at the perfect angle, it's not in 3D, at least it doesn't look as it should. It doesn't have the features the NGP will, it doesn't look as good, and as was the case with the DS and PSP, the titles will be better on the PSP too, that is for everyone but people that buy every single Mario, Zelda and Pokémon game because all of the others that are identical don't quite satisfy them enough.

I don't particularly like all of these "new" technologies coming out, all of your 3D and motion sensors and wiggle your controller rubbish, I want a screen and buttons. The only thing I have actually enjoyed using is 3D on a PC, but for the price at the moment, it isn't worth it for a card good enough to run it, a 120MHz monitor, the glasses, the games...

Nevakonaza said:
$999 :o....no thanks :D

I wonder what the battery life will be like on it.
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If it is anything like the PSP, excellent. I can play on mine all day without having to charge, and I listen to Podcasts at night, and in the past have accidentally fallen asleep whilst listening to them, and it has gone through from when I went to sleep to when I woke up playing them and still has loads of battery life left.

I don't know about anyone else, but does it not look, aesthetically, amazing. The old one wasn't too shabby itself, but compared to the NGP, I wouldn't look twice at the original PSP.

I doubt they will market at $1000, or even close to. Correct me if I am wrong, but that would be some 3-4 times the price of any previous handheld games console. I can see it maybe (maybe) $400-500 at the absolute most. Around £300 for it, I could honestly justify spending that given how much I use my PSP
 
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i think it will turn out to be another one of those things that will be a decent bit of tech but will be disgustingly overpriced
 
I was reading about this in the Game Informer when I was at work a few days ago and the mall was absolutely dead. It looks impressive and something I might consider (after it's been out for awhile).

I may have to take a look through the computer next time and working and see if there is a tentative date and price listed for it yet, though I'm assuming not since it doesn't even have an actual name at the moment. We haven't even had people asking about it, and there's been nothing posted in the comm binder yet either.

Time will tell though, and I'm interested to see what it'll be. As well as titles being worked on.

Yay touch screens!
 
Nevakonaza said:
$999 :o....no thanks :D

I wonder what the battery life will be like on it.
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Well I have a Sony X10 mini smart-phone with a 2.5" screen and the battery life BLOWS plus I'm on my third phone in 6 months, so that sums up Sony's quality now a days. The only thing that Sony still makes good are there TVs.
 
JLuchinski said:
Well I have a Sony X10 mini smart-phone with a 2.5" screen and the battery life BLOWS plus I'm on my third phone in 6 months, so that sums up Sony's quality now a days. The only thing that Sony still makes good are there TVs.
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Well, considering their phones are a really small branch of the products they make, saying their product quality is poor based on your one experience with it is hardly sufficient.
 
I've owned a couple of Sony receivers and HTIAB system as well, can't say much for those either. I've also had a PS2 crap out on me. So the only good experience I've had with Sony products are there TV's. That's just my opinion.
 
i think all companys are the same nowadays GREED GREED GREED, they mass produce as cheapily and quickly as they can, plus they dont want their products to last more than 2-3 years because then you will be more likely to buy their new version.

although its worth saying its easy to forget how complex these gadgets are so some are bound to fail, its more important to me what a companys reputation is like in regards to how they conduct themselves when their products do fail
 
JLuchinski said:
I've owned a couple of Sony receivers and HTIAB system as well, can't say much for those either. I've also had a PS2 crap out on me. So the only good experience I've had with Sony products are there TV's. That's just my opinion.
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Ive got 2 fat PS2's, one of which from the day of release, still going strong. The only thing I've had to do is realign the lens a couple of times. I'm using a 3 year old Sony monitor as my main monitor. I've got a PSP 2000 still going. Every experience I've had with Sony has had quality products, and I think having 3 or 4 products and all of them be bad, on a personal level, would make you think the manufacturer wasn't very good, but 4 products out of millions is nothing. Sony have made a name for themselves by being innovative and providing quality
 
That is very true, I do like Sony but only some of there products, that goes the same with other things that I own as well. But it will be interesting to see how this does especially against Nintendo, I heard there working on a portable 3D system that doesn't require the glasses.
 
JLuchinski said:
That is very true, I do like Sony but only some of there products, that goes the same with other things that I own as well. But it will be interesting to see how this does especially against Nintendo, I heard there working on a portable 3D system that doesn't require the glasses.
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That is the 3DS that was mentioned earlier in thre thread. ITt is just a glorified DS, but none of the DS games will work on it, breaking nintendo's history of having backwards compatibility (GBA playing GBC games, DS playing GBA games, wii playing gamecube games), and with a 3D system that doesn't work properly
 
Yeah I had a fat PS2 as well, the laser went, I have the slim one now and it still works great but the controller is kind of finicky. And I've had more good experiences then bad with Sony so I will continue to buy them. But it will be interesting to see both of these systems, a leap forward in the world of technology.
 
JLuchinski said:
Yeah I had a fat PS2 as well, the laser went, I have the slim one now and it still works great but the controller is kind of finicky. And I've had more good experiences then bad with Sony so I will continue to buy them. But it will be interesting to see both of these systems, a leap forward in the world of technology.
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If the laser thing was it saying it couldn't read discs, or that it was taking a hell of a long time to load any discs, that wasn't a "dead" console, that was a design flaw and is what I am on about when I had to realign the laser. It falls a little over the course of use making it the wrong distance to read the discs properly. You pop the case off, top of the disc tray, turn a little wheel and test a disc until it works again, and that's it.

Inconvenient, yes, but not quite as bad as an rrod on a Microsoft xbox or some other complete failure. The PS2's did fail, but there was nothing major, design wise, that caused them to go. The PS3 doesn't have any major issues either. It does have the yellow light, but that isn't all that wide spread
 
Yeah mine stopped reading discs period, and at the time I had no idea what I was doing so I sold it as is for $100. I've only seen one instance of the YLOD and that was my brothers PS3. My first 360 was a RROD victim, got a refurb and that was about 3 years ago and that one still works flawlessly but my new 4 gb 360 which I've had for about 2 months is already starting to freeze here and there. I'm not much of a console gamer anyway, but I might buy this new Sony when it comes out because it looks pretty cool.
 
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