And in ushered the new era....

Too little time too much to say, but I'll just make it clear. Sony just came in an in 1 day set the direction of portable gaming for the next 10 years. The PSP is the nicest piece of hardware I've ever held in my hands and it does everything. Want to listen to your mp3s? Sound quality is equal or better than ipods. Store and look at your photos you've taken with a digital camera? Screen quality is amazing. Want to watch movies/videos? Works like a charm.

The interface is very user friendly and very capable and because the system uses Sony memory sticks, you can just pop them out and put them in computer to transfer files back and forth. There's even a usb hookup to connect straight to your computer.

Wireless Lan allows for both great multiplayer ability, but also soon it will be able to connect to the internet through wireless routers and you'll be able to browse and download stuff straight to your system. There's already an "online update" selection avaible in the interface so in the future they can update the firmware if needed.

Everyone in Japan wants one. If you take it out in public people keep coming up to you asking you all about it. Or on a train they'll move around to get a better position to look over your shoulder. You can't blame them, one look at the system and it sells itself. It's just utterly amazing.




People camping out overnight in Tokyo. For good reason too as the machine is selling on ebay and at all the import stores for ~$600 a unit ($200 retail here). I know a few people who picked up a few extra units to sell and have already made over a thousand in profit on them ^^;;




Ridge Racers is very very good. Excellent presentation, 24 tracks remade from all the previous RR games and 40+ music tracks also from the previous games. Control is great, graphics are 60fps and excellent and the music and sound is perfect. Add in 8 player wireless multiplayer and you have an incredible launch title.



Lumines is the new Tetris. Take a deep and new take on puzzle games, add in some of the best music you've ever heard that lets you add to the beat with your actions and you have the formula for the most addicting game ever made. By the creater of Rez (a game that combined 3d on-rail shooters with music), Lumines is a complete masterpiece. I must have put about 7 hours straight into this on the launch day and I really haven't touched the other games much as when your not playing Lumines you're thinking "why am I not playing Lumines right now?" :P


Minna no Golf Portable (known in the US as Hot Shots Golf). Only tried it for a few minutes but it's a solid entry in the best golf series there is. But between RR and Lumines I doubt I'll be touching this for a while.

Ok, will be back with real life in a future update.