For those that haven’t heard or noticed yet, the PS3 has a firmware upgrade available with the major feature being that you can play PSP Minis on your PS3. This sounds like Sony is on its way to making a reality what I wrote about in an Editorial I wrote back in September suggesting Sony update the PS3 to play PSP games. It appears though that right now there are only a handful of games that will actually work with Sony saying that in a couple weeks they will all work. Maybe this will be a test to see how things run and see the demand for more to work. The Minis are not allowed to have network play, so that’s one less thing for them to worry about emulating so I can see why this is a good place to start. Once a game I actually owns works I will post my impressions.
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Yesterday was the 10 year anniversary of the US release of the Sega Dreamcast, the last console that Sega released before going into just software publishing. To this day the system is highly regarded by gamers and it has a library full of classics and “hidden gems.” All day I had many people asking me what I was doing to celebrate and asking if I was going to make a post about it. I had trouble deciding what to post, and decided that I’d do a top 10 list.
[UPDATE 12/12/2009 – Looks like Sony updated the PS3 Firmware to play some PSP Minis with more to follow. Let’s hope the rest of what I said here comes true too] So I was downloading some PSP games to my PS3 through the Playstation Store (I’m not talking about piracy, thank you) and it dawned on me… If I’m already downloading the game to my PS3’s hard drive, just as I do PSN and PS1 games, why can’t I play them on my PS3 like I can those? The PS1 Classics are made to play on both PS3 and PSP, so I’m thinking PSP should be the same. I know, I know, it’s a different system, and one that’s made to be portable, but please hear me out on this. I think Sony is missing out on some money by not doing this.
As you may know if you’ve been following my blog, my Wii recently stopped working and I had to send it back to Nintendo to get it repaired. Now, it was my fault it stopped working (had it in a TV stand right now to the heat producing PS3 and Xbox 360) and Nintendo’s customer service was top notch and got the system back to me quickly, so no complaints there, but unfortunately they were unable to keep all my save data. This lead to something that I found Nintendo should update soon… but probably won’t.
Editorial: The Comic Kindle
Aug 21
NOTE: This was a brainstorm I had before the PSP Comics were announced, but felt I should get it out now that it is more previlant, and as you can see it affected how I wrote the rest of the article.
The Amazon Kindle has been out for a while now, with multiple versions having come out at this point (I believe they are on the 3rd version now). They basically want it to be the “iPod of books” but one thing that I think is holding it back is that it is black and white only. Now, for most books this is not an issue since it is all text, but sometimes there may be an illustration here or there and they also carry magazines on the service which usually have photographs to go along with the articles. Something I have been thinking about for a while that would be good is for a full color version to come out (I’m sure it’s an expense thing at this point) but it is even more of a great idea to get it out now that the PSP has announced that there will be digital comics coming to it. Read the rest of this entry »
