I usually try to get one post up a month at the very least. There just hasn’t been any really great news worth commenting on lately. Everything is down the road. Home, Possible PS3 price drop, Possible psp2 announcement. On the xbox front it turns out the elite was all but a flop. It’s been criticized for being too pricey and not offering enough. Criticizms run the gammot from old HDMI versions, no 65nm manufacturing, and the $179 dollar harddrive. What’s funny is that the lack of HD-DVD was criticized by the very same groups that jumped on Sony’s **** for including Blu-ray. Yay! For fanboy consistency. I don’t have much to say about the Wii, it’s been collecting dust, and like the gamecube I hear so little news about the goings on with the wii I hardly pay attention anymore.

I will say one thing I recently moved and was using my wii and ps3 (without linux) to give me my online fix. What a pain in the ass. The forecast channel and news channel were worthless on the wii. Trying to type with that remote is a work in frustration. The PS3 was little better, the browser was buggy, slow, and didn’t have up-to-date plugins.

I am starting to questions Sony’s logic though. I got to use the PS3 OS features a lot the past week and I don’t understand why Sony went to the trouble. They are way more inconvient to use, not only for the new input scheme but they are slow, can’t multi-task, and the webrowser is buggy. If Sony fully intended on letting linux run as an OS on the PS3, and Sony helped make the Yellowdog PS3 version Why didn’t Sony just spend the money to develope a Linux Based PS3 OS?!?!? Wouldn’t it have cost just as much to developing an in house OS as it would to develope a third party OS. I’m sure IBM would have gone in on it since they are using the CELL proccessors in some of it’s products now. Then when the PS3 needs to function like a PC it functions like a PC.
If Sony wanted to stick it to Microsoft they should open the GPU to Linux. This would have two effects. First it would give Sony the same PC/Console relationship that Windows/Xbox now enjoy. This would also instantly make linux a worthwhile porting/development platform which would ruin Microsofts desktop dominance.

At one point in time I was thinking that perhaps Microsoft was taking the correct route by going with a downloaded content focused console. My mind has changed again. After downloading trailers, demos, games, uploading video, pics and music onto my PS3 the 60 gig harddrive filled quickly. Even doubling this space wouldn’t help if I got 100% of my content online. I have ten blu-rays, that would fill up a 120 gig if I had to download them. Now an option is to just erase them whenever I’m tired of them, but then if I want to watch it again I have a 12gig download to wait through…….meh.

I scratched the **** out of my PSP screen. The screen protector fell off and being lazy I carried my psp in my pocket for an entire day. I was gonna buy a new one, but I noticed an article stating that there was gonna be a PSP2 announcement. So I bought a screen guard instead,, which did the job perfectly. Anyway there was all kinds of speculaton. 4 gig of memory no 8 gig of memory etc, etc. You know what I think Sony should do? Go after the Iphone. The PSP already has almost all of the functions someone would want in a phone except the ability to make calls. I would dump UMD. Mobility is about traveling, perferrably light. I don’t want a little case of games and movies. Not to mention that the UMD seeking during games was one of the reasons that battery life was bad during videogames and movies. I would leave a harddrive out for the same reason. In fact I wouldn’t include any memory in the PSP2, just the memory card slot. I would also include a quality camera and possibly the GPS. In terms of inputs I’d get rid of the onboard speakers and add another analog. The biggest change would be that the PSP2 screen would slide up revealing a qwerty keyboard. I’d also change the finish, the PSP always gets covered in fingure prints.