"PSP is a b*****king waste of space"
The PSP is "a b*****king waste of space", says Codemasters Vice President Gavin Cheshire.
Cheshire is mostly speaking from his personal experiences with the handheld console, saying that the main problem is how fiddly it is to use and long it takes to put content on the device.
"Well, speaking as a person who bought a PSP, the problem was that I always thought - because it was a better screen than iPod's - that I'd be doing more with it. But it was such a b*****king useless waste of space; just getting stuff on it was ridiculous," Cheshire said.
"That was its downfall. Relatively speaking, [Codemasters] didn't do too badly on F1 PSP. But regarding the future, I think they've got - well... no.
"PSPgo's a lovely device," he added, "really smart - but our senior VP bought one the day it came out and has a great story, because he ended up on some customer support line just trying to do basic stuff. He had to re-download his software, do an immediate firmware update, and that's your user experience...Sony just hasn't got it right. Stuff like that will make people leave it alone."
While Cheshire was quick to bash the PSP though, he was equally fast to extol the virtues of Apple's iPad, saying he thought the design was brilliant and that the "straight to console nature of it" made a lot of sense.
Do you think Cheshire makes a lot of sense, or has he lost the plot? Let us know your thoughts in the forums.
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Discuss in the forums ReplyThat said, once the content is on, it's great. Lovely screen, compact design and generally a fantastic platform. Just a load of hassle to get set up.
yeah i didn't know, whats wrong with burger king?
Who puts "ing" on the end of that word..... ever..... seriously? Normal people would says "it's b*****ks.
I dunno, if I could choose between having my kids exposed to 'teh BAD SWEARS!!1!' or crappy fast food joints, I think I'd pick the former. Although at least Burger King taste a damn site better than most.
I've never owned a PSP, so I can't make an on-topic post. Sorry.
It doesn't fill me with much confidence in the VP and his company if he had to get technical support just to use a PSP, it ain't rocket science.
+rep for you Sir! :D
Still never seen an actual PSP Go, so they look to have been about as popular as I was anticipating.
+1 :)
Its so simple to download games, it cant be simpler. You log into the Playstation store on the PSP, pick a game to add to cart and then select download.
When downloaded you go to the memory card and play the game? a 2 year old can do it. I have the original phat 1000 PSP from day one and bought 14 games from PSN.
I bet he didnt even read the instructions.
bollocking?
awesome :D
How the hell is an iPad a viable gaming platform, especially compared to the PSP? It doesn't even have dedicated controls. Yeah, touchscreen game controls are novel, but after about 30 seconds they become annoying and cumbersome.
Give me a PSP any day. Codemasters' games are crap anyway.
take that back, Treasure Island Dizzy is still one of the finest games ever created.
LOL i was right....
http://kotaku.com/5494199/publisher-psp-is-a-bollocking-useless-waste-of-space
word of the day for me then.
thats why you get data on pc then transfer using memory stick
Oh, and PSP ftl. :)
..we don't really use that word here across the pond, thus it's not a commonplace assumption. My thoughts at least.:)
Thought the same but one T or the C had to go, there isn't enough *
Humans have 10 fingers and a mind capable of controlling all of them independently. I expect an input method which reflects this, not some touch screen that uses nothing more than my right index. Games which simply emulate buttons by displaying them on the screen are no solution.
True, it's not that common here, adding 'ing', not uncommon though, I guess it depends on what circles you move in and how bored you are with normal expletives. :D
darn right i did. outside the occasional usage of some few and between british comedy show on the odd hours on the odd channels.... we canadians barely hear the word bollocks. let alone bollocking...
i mean, what is bollock anyway? i should google it up. i found out its not a fish...
edit: LOL ok, so its definitely not a fish. even found a nice wikipedia for it.
oh dear god i havent laughed that hard in ages, have some rep ;)
Anyways, why would he want to use the built in wi-fi for the the downloads? You can't really be expecting much processing power out of something barely bigger than a mouse. It's gonna be slow, no suprises there.
QFT.
Our American co-workers love our swear words, and use them to the bemusement of others. Indeed even our female american vp roars with laughter by herself in cinemas when the British expletives come out.
And fyi, our transatlantic friends, one tends to be on the receiving end of a "bollocking" i.e. tongue-lashing, as opposed to describing something as "bollocks"....
Rule Britannia when it comes to swearing.... lol
funnily enough, thats true, I have to speak to our network guys in america quite a bit, and you always hear them chuckle to themselves when you say "cheers", or they'll say it back with emphasis and then giggle to themselves afterwards.
Plus we do networks, and always end up with the router, rooter, rowta, argument :)
Shame she was married
and her husband was there
and he was a lovely bloke.
ho hum