How Could Sony Improve the PSP

**Xarius** · December 18th, 2005, 00:25

How Could Sony Improve the PSP

One thing and only one thing. Stop f*cking combating hombrew and embrace it.

**Chackan** · December 18th, 2005, 00:36

First, they should allow for homebrews to run on every firmware, not iso loader's, just homebrews.

Second, they should let the Psp run at 333Mhz.

And lastly,the D-Pad really isn't the best one i've played with. The diagonals doesn't work at all, or really badly. They should've had more attention to that!

**Hidavi** · December 18th, 2005, 01:23

Originally Posted by Chackan

First, they should allow for homebrews to run on every firmware, not iso loader's, just homebrews.

Second, they should let the Psp run at 333Mhz.

And lastly,the D-Pad really isn't the best one i've played with. The diagonals doesn't work at all, or really badly. They should've had more attention to that!

If they let homebrew run, they automatically allow ISO loaders to run too.

**grayjaket** · December 18th, 2005, 01:57

Originally Posted by Sterist

only think i wana see is no more fraud. memory cards are fraud. all of them. a gig mem card has around 950-980 megs, a 2gig has around 1900 megs, a 32 has 30megs.... just subtract what it actually has from the total storage labeled, then ask yourself what a memory card with that amount only would cost. Sony's mem cards are total fraud.

are you just babbling because you think you're making sense?

**crazy_biker420** · December 18th, 2005, 02:05

two analog sticks would be nice
run at full speed 333mhz
if possible in the future a folding one
atathable ps2 molded spape with extra triggers and analog sticks (or somthing like that)

**califrag** · December 18th, 2005, 02:14

$ony will never allow "homebrew" to be run on their machines. PERIOD. The only thing they MIGHT do, is add some of the functions that homebrew adds to their firmware updates. For example.. PSPersonalize allowed you to change your background.. $ony released new firmware allowing you to do this. PSPRadio allows you to listen to radio over the internet.. the new RSS feature is similar to this, opening up a full range of audio podcasts from the internet.

What $ony needs to do is realize a lot of us just want simple things like calculators.. notepads.. address books.. things that the PSP firmware should have come with in the first place! Little games like solitaire and minesweeper to entertain us for five or ten minutes.. rather than waiting five or ten minutes to load a UMD game and get a mission started! Functionality to make the PSP more versatile as a Digital Assistant (PDA), Gaming Console, Movie Player, MP3 player, etc.

I think $ony only needs to keep IMPROVING their software! but rather than take AWAY the functionality that homebrew adds, they should take the extra few hours to verify and add the source coding that someone has ALREADY put together. I think this would be the only enticing reason for a homebrew user to update their system with the newest firmware.

Honestly, I've tried the ISO's.. and I agree that I usually only play the UMDs which I buy! Because of this I'm running 2.0 firmware which allows me to use the simple homebrew that I mentioned earlier.

The 4GB is the biggest crippler of the PSP. Why does it seem like the PSP was DESIGNED obsolete!? There's no reason for this!

The hardware is a bit shakey too. I always feel like I'm going to put the PSP in sleep mode while playing a game because of the loose on/off switch and horrible location choice! Same with my wireless switch, shakey and I feel like I'm gonna disconnect myself during a socom match if my hand slips! The UMD Eject button is also loose and I know there are a lot of you out there who bought a $ony Portable UMD Launcher (PUL).

Bare with me, I know this is a long post already!

I've had to OPEN UP MY PSP! It's only 6 months old, and out of fear of sending it to $ony and getting it back with 2.6 firmware, I decided to open it up! I had to fix my ANALOG STICK, which I know a lot of you have problems with.
IF YOU HAVE BOUGHT THE OVERSIZED ANALOG NUBS FROM NAKI OR DRAGONPLUS, DO NOT TWIST THE ANALOG STICK!!!
When I first put on the analog stick, I noticed it would twist about 10 degrees (imagine on a clock it would twist from 11:55-12:00). After playing SOCOM for awhile the twist developed to about 20 degrees WHICH DESTROYED MY ANALOG NUB AND LOCKED IT UP!! Basically I had to open it up and reset the guides underneath. It works ok, but it still twists about 25 degrees now and the nub is worn on the UNDERNEATH (you can't see it unless you disassemble the PSP and the analog unit!)

There are a billion other reasons that make the PSP absolutely horrid - battery life, load times, screen and game lag, game choices, screen glare and composition (i.e. easy fingerprints/scratches/etc), speaker volume, button arrangement, sticky and nonresponsive buttons, shakey battery door cover, no video out, stupid memory stick duo rubber cover annoying piece of crap I want to break you off thingy.. etc. etc..

But through all this all I have to say, is I ABSOLUTELY CHERISH my PSP... YEP! I even went so far as buying my brother one for Christmas!!

Sorry for the length of this post, but I hope I've covered just about everything there is that should be improved.

**Hidavi** · December 18th, 2005, 02:15

Originally Posted by grayjaket

are you just babbling because you think you're making sense?

Yeah. He has no idea what he's talking about. If Memory Sticks are frauds because of their misrepresented capacities, then so are all storage devices. No 80GB hard drive gives you 80GB, its more like 73GB. No flash card gives you exactly the amount shown. With storage devices, its like the bigger the storage device, the more space you loose. It kinda sucks, but its necessary for the storage and the OS of any computer/device using it to work at all.

**LC_killer** · December 18th, 2005, 02:40

tv in, so i can watch brodcast network tv. the psp as a portable tv would ****ing rock. that location free sux, its too expensive, and you have to pay a monthly fee..**** that

**gas19d** · December 18th, 2005, 03:45

The psp could use some improvements sure but there mostly things that they cant change... The psp is still getting tons of customers. Actually today on my way home i was on the subway with a NintendoDS i just got for my little brother. I see a man with a psp next to me and i chuckle and showed him what i had. He asked if i had a psp and i noticed he didnt speak good english. He wanted me to help him run GTA. I told him how to update his psp. He said he just got it to watch movies. Sony is doing what nintendo is doing too its bringing in customers that wouldnt have bought a video game system usually... although i think nintendo is better at it