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Sony unveils new bundle, PSP, controller
Author: Joe MartinPublished: 21st August 2008
The PS3 wireless keyboard attachment will attach to the top of existing controllers.
First up, the bundle. The new SKU that Sony has announced is a 160GB PlayStation 3, with region-specific offers. In America the new console will go on sale in November and will come with a Dual-Shock SixAxis controller, a copy of Uncharted: Drake's Fortune and a PlayStation Network voucher that can be redeemed for a copy of PAIN. The whole bundle will retail in the US for $499.
In the UK and Europe the same console will sell for €449 and also include a voucher for €70 of PlayStation Network downloads.
Sony has also announced a new model of PSP which is set to hit shelves come October 15th in Europe. Looks-wise the PSP 3000 looks identical to previous models, but it will include an in-built microphone that enables Skype use from the off. The PSP 3000 will also have an improved screen that should be brighter and give less glare.
Lastly, Sony has unveiled a new add-on keyboard attachment for PlayStation 3 controllers. The new wireless keyboard attachment is designed to plug in to the top of existing controllers, connecting through the mini-USB port though it can also be paired with other devices through Bluetooth.
Though details are still a little bit sketchy when it comes to price and availability, Sony has promised that the keyboard will have a touchpad mode for mouse control, be available in eight different languages and should offer at least limited game support if developers decide to support it in the future.
Here at bit-tech.net we're definitely impressed by the prospect of a no-glare PSP and the new bundle seems promising too, though we're a bit unsure about how comfy the keyboard add-on will be. What do you think? Let us know in the forums.
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- it has a slow processor and limited ram
- it is cumbersome and requires two hands at all times
- its storage capacity is limited to a single card which has a max retail capacity of 8GB last time I looked
I love my PSP but I really want some decent games for it...face facts Sony, its a portable games console not a PPC/PDA treat it as such and stop pursuing functionality deadends.
Except, wait, no it isn't! It mounts to the top of the controller rather than the bottom
Which, as liratheal so rightly pointed out, looks very uncomfortable to use.
Great innovation, Sony :p
It's similar to when people discovered you could run a burned ISO on a PS by using good timing and some blu-tack. Sony kept revising it to make it more difficult to bypass the region protection.
You can, I use a wireless keyboard with mine, it does seem a bit pointless.
Honestly, I'm not trying to start a flame war here, but that came off as completely biased and ignorant especially considering you've never used it as well as your comment about how it's "just another thing that 360 has that's better" as if you are always saying it or something....
Don't get me wrong. This is pretty much an exact replica of MS's, but it does have some extra functionality. It's just that I don't know how Sony could've made it any other way (economically). Considering you can use any USB M+K I find this peripheral pointless and Sony should just advertise that imo, but whatever....
So you very very picky then? Because there are loads of games on the PSP and there are alot of great games depending on what type of game you like. That argument does not hold anymore.
Well it is over 3 years old and only a hand held. You want more power then get a laptop.
Duh!! Oh course it requires 2 hands. If you want to watch porn and wank at the same time then Id suggest using a PC. You need 2 hands to hold and play any portable. The Ds requires 2 hands and is even more cumbersone trying to hold it with one hand and use that same hand to control the dpad while using your second hand to hold a stylus. A game boy uses 2 hands. Tell me of a portable console that doesnt.
Why would you need capacity for more than one card at one time??? Just buy the largest, and 8GB is alot of storage. A game boy had no storage capacity at all. A DS does if you use one of the cartriges with a SD card. But then you cant use your memory card and have a game in at the same time. Tell me of a Portable console that has more than one card slot please.
I think you make some very good points and I agree with some of them, but to make them over 5 posts when 1 would do is a bit.. lazy, is all.
So, if the price is reasonable this is definitely something I would be interested in buying.
Those complaining about how uncomfortable it is..... its not meant to be used while your playing your game. When youre typing you dont need to be using the other buttons on your controller. Having it on the bottom of the controller would be much worse. One is there wouldnt be enough room and it would probably get in the way.
Anyways typing with the regular controller isnt bad at all as the ps3 has a built in dictionary so you dont have to finish the words.
Oh, about the copying of 360.. well PS2 had something like this years ago. Not a first party controller but it had a controller with a built in keyboard. Take your 'it's copying 360, it sucks compared to the 360 one' attitudes elsewhere. All that does is make the fanboys get out their flamethrowers.
About the PS3 bundle. I think its awesome putting in a bigger hard drive. I wish they would put in backwards compatibility though, but to be honest, im not so sure BC is really that big of a deal. I havent played a ps2 game on my ps3 in probably 6 months and it was only for a few hours because the games suck compared to current games.
But this big hard drive will be great and im pretty sure the reason they are putting it in is because of the movie download/rental service and because sony is going to be adding some sort of dvr thing to the ps3 which i would really like.
i always seem to find you posting when there is an article about sony or a playstation platform.
also, try using the multiquote button as i did with this post.
the nintendo DS does have 2 card slots, slot A and slot B.
http://openpandora.org/ not out yet but i think it might count as one.
Secondly, I do not own a brand new PC or do I really care right now. I just don't have the money, so I don't see the point right now in keeping up with it as much, so you don't see me posting a lot on PC stuff.
Lastly, I am sorry for the multiple posts. I will be sure next time to do them all in one long one. If I were actually lazy I wouldn't post at all.
i don't have a brand new pc either but i post about pc stuff, i read a lot about it.
do that, it is forum etiquette and it used to be one of the rules of the forum.
By the way, does that 160GB PlayStation 3 coming November have backwards compatibility?
As for the 160GB, it will not have BC, so if you really want an all-in-one PS3 that upscales PS2 games to HD, loads them faster (though not a lot) and allows you to play them wirelessly, you should probably think about getting one that does. Idk where you live, so I don't know what SKU's are available to you. For this reason, I just bought one of the remaining 80GB MGS4 bundles last Thursday at my local Gamestop before they sold out that weekend. They say the new 160GB will sport the new 65nm RSX and possibly the 45nm Cell btw.