Rant time! This time it's on the PSP Go. Enjoy.
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To be perfectly honest, this device has a mixed reaction when I think about it.
It could be good because it's smaller than the current PSP (It's espciailly smaller than my fat first gen PSP) and has an internal hard drive with 16 gigs of space. That's a lot of space. I could probably fit a couple anime series onto there and still have some room for my saved data.
But then there's the things I don't like about the PSP Go. First off, and this seems to be one of the biggest beefs when it comes to this console, is the removal of the UMD Drive if favor of digital distribution. That's understandable, considering that the UMD model didn't exactly do too well. The UMD drive also drained battery life with its moving parts. That being said, the fact that not even Sony knew how they were going to transfer the UMD games that PSP owners already have worries me.
It should also be worth mentioning that the PSP Go has the SAME battery life as when the PSP first came out... Wait, what? Wasn't the purpose of removing the UMD drive in the first place was to have better battery life? Apparantly not, as Sony seems it's smart to remove a feature and then put a smaller battery into the console. Great.
Then there's the fact that not only is the screen smaller, but it looks like the Gameboy Micro did: Really uncomfortable to hold and play. At least when the DSi was released Nintendo not only made the screen bigger, but made the console WIDER. Sony should take a page from Nintendo's book and learn to shrink the system while not splitting the fan base in half. At least Nintendo's DSi still has the DS library while sitll having DSiWare.
Then there's the price tag, which was my biggest beef until I learned that the battery life didn't change. Sony, why do you expect me to buy something that seems to be doing LESS than what my current PSP does for the price of when the PSP I bought first came out? Sorry, but wireless and Bluetooth doesn't make up for this.
And Then there's the timing of the release and announcement. The 3000 model hasn't even been out a YEAR and Sony just announced the Go. Not only that, but the console is set to release in a little more than three months from now. That's time to scrounge up the money for the system, sure, but there's going to be other expenses besides the Go depending on living situations and the possibility of owning multiple consoles. At least with the Nintendo DSi there was a three year gap between the Lite and the fact tha Nintendo added more things that the Lite didn't do only removing the GBA slot (Which people still complain about. If you had a Lite before, why do you complain? You can still play GBA games on that).
Then there's the reasoning behind the price. It's all because the Go is new. Not because there's new technology in this device. Not because Sony researched to hell and back twice to design the console. Just because it's new. You can say that Nintendo is doing the same thing with the DS, but at least Nintendo is ADDING things to the already existing console instead of removing features (I'm still believing in a DSi virtual console that covers all the Gameboy generations to make up for the lack of a GBA slot on the DSi).
In all honesty, the bad far outweighs the good that this console brings. It might still be a hit. I might even still buy it despite the fact that I speak so badly of the console now. Who knows? All we can do is wait three months and see how it goes.
If you don't agree with anything I said, feel free to debate with me. Or agree with me. Either way, this is my opinion.
Posted on: June 28, 2009, 01:09:03 AM
What, does everyone here like the Go or something? Anyways, another rant. This time on the Transformer movies. YAY.
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I won't go into full detail over why I didn't like the Transformer movies; if you want that go to
this thread to see why.
Now to expand on this: Why the hell is it so insanely popular?
Could it be the giant robot fights? I doubt it, since most of the fights were a scrambled mess (And they're worse in the new movie so I hear).
Could it be the humor? I also doubt it, since it's the lowest form of humor with stereotypes and cock jokes aplenty.
This I don't think I could ever have an answer for. But this isn't the main reason why I'm ranting about the live action movies.
Consider for a moment the giant robot anime you love so much. Why do you like these shows? I personally like them because of the giant robots and the characters that inhabit the world. Both parts don't overpower each other, nor could they exist in the universe of giant robots without the other; A Robot can't move without a human/AI pilot, and a Human can't fight robots without a robot of their own.
There's bound to be angst somewhere down the line, right? But we can accept that since it's developing the characters and sometimes turning them into something awesome (I.E. Simon). We can also accept it since only the human characters have a personality. You could argue that the robots have a personality of their own, but they're ultimatly shaped by their pilots and the way the people of that world view those robots.
Now what happens when a Sentinent robot interacts with these characters thus throwing in more characters to develop? That depends on who is writing it. The original Transformers cartoons were a thing of magic, because not only were the robots capable of being developed as a character, there were humans as well that could also develop at the same time, and both their developments happened
at the same time and rate.
Now these Transformers movies hardly develops characters, and not only that, the second movie seems to start where the first movie did. Sam had a girlfriend in Megan Fox, but he went off to college
away from her. The hell?
It's odd that despite critical response to this movie (read: Negative) those that have seen the movie tended to have a different response (read: Positive). So what does this all mean? That as long as there are explosions and slow mo tits that people will just about like anything?
I'd love to experiment and see if this theory is true, but unfortunatly I don't have $200 million lying around to see if that holds true.
FUN FACT: Transformers: The Revenge of the Fallen had a Budget of $200 million. It made that $200 million back in the first five days. I [tornado fang]ing hate humanity now.
tl;dr version (Honestly, I don't blame you for not reading it all. I was all over the place): Crap is crazy popular as long as there are explosions, cock jokes and tits.