Sony PSP: Hot or Not?

FormFactorFormFactor At the core of forgotten
edited April 2005 in Gaming
So the PSP has been out for a week or so and the minions on the front lines of the "scene" are already hard at work releasing all kinds of useful homebrew apps and hacks .

It wont be long before we have a functioning PSP Linux build.

You can have bittorrent automatically download your favorite TV shows and pspvideo9 will automatically convert them to a PSP supported format.

And someone has hacked an adaptor together to allow it to read sd memory.

From a scene prospective this thing is quite a buzz :thumbsup:

What do you guys think of the PSP? Hot or Not

Comments

  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited March 2005
    Hot as hell.
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited March 2005
    Very hot... cousin/roomate has one. Damn..... it just rocks man. I may have to sneak it out with me when I leave to Texas :grr:
  • leishi85leishi85 Grand Rapids, MI Icrontian
    edited March 2005
    it's so hot for geeks, cause all the hacks people been coming up with, hmm. makes me wanna get one, but i don't got that money.
  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited March 2005
    As long as they remain hackable (and thus, hot), then I'll probably get one whenever they have a price drop. Probably around Christmas.
  • CBCB Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Der Millionendorf- Icrontian
    edited March 2005
    Ja, as soon as they drop below $5! I'll even make a special trip to EB to get mine. (very rare occurance)
  • BuddyJBuddyJ Dept. of Propaganda OKC Icrontian
    edited March 2005
    Oh so hot. They even come in a PSP "condom" as to not scratch the screen. My buddy is a manager at Blockbuster's Game dept. and gets to use the store copy. He comes over to me an all nonchalantly whips the PSP out and starts fiddling with it. I'm havin a hard time deciding on what to spend my tax return on, a PSP or Supra parts.. It's such a conundrum.
  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited March 2005
    Not hot. I can't see any legitimate reason to buy one (except maybe GT4 Mobile)
  • BuddyJBuddyJ Dept. of Propaganda OKC Icrontian
    edited March 2005
    And that's not reason enough? OMG I want GT4 mobile so bizzad.
  • GrayFoxGrayFox /dev/urandom Member
    edited March 2005
    Hot ( I plan to buy one as soon as someone gets linux running on one.
  • JengoJengo Pasco, WA | USA
    edited March 2005
    as soon as i see some games worth playing on it, i will buy, but for right now My DS is taking up ALL my time. The damned touch screen is just Genius
  • MedlockMedlock Miramar, Florida Member
    edited March 2005
    I'm almost Nintendo fanboy material, but I'm not gonna lie. It's damn hot. I watched my friend hook his up to his laptop and start playing mp3's on it. I'll probably get the DS myself, but with unlimited funding I'd definitely get the PSP.
  • JimboraeJimborae Newbury, Berks, UK New
    edited March 2005
    Hot. And it's all because of you sodding Yanks that we now have to wait till summer for it to be released over here. :bawling: ;D
  • NomadNomad A Small Piece of Hell Icrontian
    edited March 2005
    Decidedly not hot, that price is ridiculous.
  • -Ben-Ben
    edited April 2005
    And with the LCD problems, I'll wait for a couple of more iterations of the hardware and software and price point before I buy. And the game selection at the moment doesnt really excite me.
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited April 2005
    ^Ben wrote:
    And with the LCD problems, I'll wait for a couple of more iterations of the hardware and software and price point before I buy. And the game selection at the moment doesnt really excite me.

    Waiting for price drop myself.... I'd definitly buy it for $200 if I had $200 to spare. By then I'd think most problems would be solved, of course... I really don't see most of the crap listed as real issues. My cousin says at least 10 others in his class has one and they play against each other all the time, no one has had any problems with their system :scratch:
  • GobblesGobbles Ventura California
    edited April 2005
    waiting for price drop.

    waiting for hardware revisions

    waiting for Linux hack.

    Then I am running right out and buying one.

    :wtf:
  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited April 2005
    I'm really only intersted in the hacks. I'm not such a gaming addict that I need to have games with me at all times. When somebody gets the PSP to play other file formats (OGG, Xvid, etc) and if there's ever the ability to add PDA-like organizer programs, and there's a price drop, then I'd probably get one. A way of connecting an external CD drive would be cool too.
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