How Could Sony Improve the PSP

[dOOmy]

A TV out and a port so you can connect a gamepad cause the gamepads are the first thing to go, espiciallly if youve got a temper

[ENGL!SH]

why cant they allow homebrew up to a certain size e.g 20 mb ,so isos cant be loaded
i would also like a tv ariel

[MaxSMoke]

Add in some native Voice over IP, or even better, a cellphone radio to work with the headset jack. But then it would really need a camera added in as well.

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[jimjamjahaa]

i want personal organiser functionality, and reminders/alarms that wake up your psp when its on sleep mode. that way you could keep it in sleep mode, saving ur battery and then it wakes its self up to remind you you were supposed to be somewhere by now

giving out the sdk's to homebrew developers. im suprised no one has mentioned that. if they are going to go to the trouble of sifting through peoples source, and then signing it, they may as well give out the sdk's so we can get some sweet looking games coming out.

i thought the 4 gig limit was a limit of the FAT filesystem?

[y0gz]

I gotta do something with the memory cards issue, ITS JUST PISSING ME OFF, I bought a 1 gig sony mem card, and got 950mb instead of 1024 mb, I tried mailing them in their site, no email supplied!, I'm going to make a sign list, the everyone will add their names, and I'll send it to them, It's ****ing annoying me!

[Sterist]

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

shut up. back up your mem stick on PC. reformat it. tell me if the total amount matches the label. if it does, i want a photo of both the mem card itsself and the display of the same capability.

what ive said could be understood by even the simplest of minds...

[Sterist]

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.

sounds like you know exactly what im talking about. if they KNOW that an item with an expected amount is going to have so much less, then they lessen what the label says or atleast say so on the package.

[Sterist]

ok heres the last of my thoughts of what i've read so far (replied as i went along, forgive triple post):

full time 333mhz speed would KILL battery. no no, it wouldnt kill the battery, it would murder it

Built in HDD:
1. oh man, did i say the 333mhz would kill battery? imagine this!! (expect 1hour battery life tops, apon any and all HDD use)
2. have you ever looked inside your psp? it's jam-packed. there is absolutely no room for one
3. (in my opinion) a built in mem card as an alternative to HDD, perhaps 2gig+, or slots for 2 memory cards, would make more sense; much much smaller and a fraction of the power to operate.

forgot who said it but whoever said they had a "shakey power switch / wifi switch / UMD switch", lol thats just your psp.... must have a TON of use

L and R have too much play in them, they dont seem built to last (they can move forward and back by about 20mm)

yes, definitally eliminate the auto-run-UMD on start up, or atleast prompt it

homebrew, in my opinion, is risky (sheer luck, or unluck, that the .0000001% chance of bricking your psp could happen anytime), there should be a "test program" that will give you pointers on virus or virus-like code before allowing any use

2nd analog stick sounds nice but i dont think its needed, everything seems covered except for a few select games that have a bunch of in-game "toggle" options where you hold a botton then push another to do something

definitally use a different texture that is more finger-friendly

id like to see a USB kb capability

put a botton-like lock in the dead center of the Wi-Fi switch, power switch, and UMD switch

fix that ever so hard battery door to take on / off (i have to work at it to get it to latch)

put some sort of a switch / lock on the mem stick cover

i'd like to see sony take full advantage of having an IR port on the PSP (TV remotes, i know programming for TVs isnt hard.)

and that seems to be about all the logical and possible stuff i can think of lol

[Ellises]

The only reason why I bought my PSP was because of the homebrew, if homebrew wasn't possible with such ease (since it's harder with the NDS, hince why I never bought a NDS) I would of never bought a PSP.

But I of course updated my psp to version 2.0 to play GTA, lol.

But the only reason why I wanted homebrew was not because I wanted emulators or such but because I'm a coder, and it always been a dream to make my own games and play them on the fly.
So my advice to Sony if they don't want to include homebrew support, instead add scripting support, for an example offically add LUA or something similar to the PSP for that we can program all of our games, and of course you can't really use ISO support to LUA, so it wouldn't be a no lose thing, they would sell more PSPs due to advance users or newbies trying to make their own playable game scripts and wouldn't have to worry about pirating.

[Cakebox]

If they just could throw out the UMD unit and put in a microdrive small HD on 20 gb would just be great. Althou then I'd feel sorry for Sony, couse then they'd go downhill, just as they're doing now :O