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I have no qualms admitting it. I’ve been unabashedly advicing people who ask me that the Sony PSP is the best damned investment they can make in the console gaming market, if they can buy only one. No other device lets you be entertained so well on the move, allowing you to watch movies, browse the Internet, listen to music and yes, play games no matter where you are. Perfect for when you’re stuck in a boring meeting, or stuck in an elevator without a sweet thing, or bored to death the next time the Electricity Board decides to see what would happen if they pulled the plug on your power line.
And if Sony has their way, you will be able to see movies of unprecedented quality end up on your PSP straight from your BluRay movie and your PlayStation 3 console. After making the announcement that users on the handheld wonder will also be able to Skype to their hearts’ content, Sony has said that it plans to include special version of the movies on certain BD discs, which when loaded into the PS3 and connected to the PSP, will transfer a hi-def “made for PSP” version of the movie onto its memory stick.
While there’s no confirmation on which discs will start to see this functionality (we’re guessing movies under the SPE banner will be the first to use this, duh), this certainly beats sitting around for the better part of an hour with third party video conversion programs.
[via Wired]
“640k ought to be enough for anyone”. Remember that? D’you also remember how Microsoft was slamming the PS3’s decision to use BluRay media and how a DVD9 was more than enough? Well, as if it wasn’t enough that Microsoft is choking on the Blue Dragon fiasco (the game, incidentally, ships on three discs) it looks like Epic, who gave them their system seller, Gears of War, is also head-over-heels in love with BluRay. Speaking at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival, Epic head honcho Mark Rein said that while the PS3 version of their upcoming flagship shooter, Unreal Tournament III was going great, thanks to BluRay, the Xbox 360 version may suffer in the long run, simply because they don’t have enough space to pack it all in.
We’ll compress some things. But you know, we may have fewer maps on the 360 version… Blu-Ray has definitely given us a lot of legroom.
If you think down the road, well maybe the next UT beyond this one, on Blu-Ray disc, we might fill the whole damn disc with all the cool stuff the mod makers make.
Sure, we all knew Epic was pissed at Microsoft for deciding to charge people for their map packs, but after taking it lying down, it looks like Epic may be finally getting back at Microsoft for the Gears of War Hidden Fronts map pack release. So, enjoy, ladies and germs, who plan to enjoy this super fast paced, frag or get fragged in 1/100th of a second on a console (somehow) while the rest of us will just get it on the PC, with all the mods and maps and TCs that you can shake a controller at.