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Sony Takes on iPhone's Growing Mobile Gaming Popularity in New Ad

Well~seriously, does anyone want to be a kid like that or want their kid to be like that? I know I don't and certainly don't want my future children turn into one. The man with the iphone-like device looks more appealing to me.

Just my thoughts:eek:
 
Jaro65 said:
What is really the future of PSP? Why would anyone want a single-purpose device, unless it can be significantly better in what it does than a multi-purpose device? From my perspective the gaming on the iPhone is more fun, due to its touchscreen interface. I wish Sony good luck, but I'm not sure how much life the PSP platform has left.
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A single-purpose device works if there's enough selling points or a revolutionary idea, like the Kindle. Multi-purpose devices only work if they successfully combine multiple purposes without compromise, like the iPhone.

I do believe PSP is dead and Sony is showing their fears. Honestly, I haven't touched my PSP since 2007. There's no point of carrying another device when my iPhone 4 outdoes the PSP.
 
the "big boys" dont give a crap. the "big boys" go home and play their 360s when they feel like it.

sony shouldnt have bothered with the GO, though. i still have my psp, it's handy for pumping tv from my play tv on the ps3 onto my psp. one thing the iphone/ipod touch cant do - live tv...
 
Nick. said:
I think the iPhone 4 is great as a gaming device :)
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Only when games are specifically designed for the touch interface. I think that playing traditional First Person Shooters like Doom, Wolfenstein 3D or games like Trapper or Underworlds suck on a touch interface -- at least I can't handle the user interface, I need either a controller or a keyboard and a mouse for such games.

Plants vs Zombies, on the other hand, is a much better and more fun experience on the touch interface than it is on the Mac or PC.

But, yeah, if I can have everything in one device, I sure don't want to carry around another gadget.
 
I personally think for a device to survive now it needs to have:

1. the ability to be hacked, play dodgy games
2. a good app store (because at 59p, who is not going to buy a game)
3. convergence. Email and internet, RSS, etc.
4. A good choice of games with new games coming out regularly
5. Good battery life
6. A free SDK

or it needs to offer something that none of the current handhelds offer as its selling point. For example 3D screen.

The above reasons are why I use my iPod touch more than my PSP.

Are the graphics on the iPod touch better than PSP? No way. Not even close. Play need for speed on the PSP (even the first one) and then on the iPhone/iPod Touch and you will see its not even close visually.

Can i check email on my PSP? yes but its such a ball ache, same for web browsing that i would rather use the iPod touch.

Do I buy games on the PSP game store? no way. Too expensive and not many to choose from.

So, for Sony to compete, they have to develop a handheld which can do everything just as well as playing games. The PSP is superb for games, but useless at everything else. People change and demand more from a device. The PSP go, if it had a touch screen, and could be hacked maybe it would sell more but as it is, no one will buy one. Look at the Japan charts for hardware. No1. PSP 29,000 units. PSP Go Last. about 70.

So, Sony could create a mobile phone with a touchscreen and normal controls like the PSP, add email, internet, RSS to the XMB in a more efficient and easier to use way. For example: Slide your finger press email, email app comes up, for example. An app store will decent prices not £29.99 for a game which is ludicrous and add walkman to it and they may have something. Until then, the PSP will slowly die in the West at least.
 
So, can you call with the PSP or do you need to keep carrying two devices with you for this "portable" gaming? Oh right, there's the Skype support. Not an extra hurdle at all. I think I see one component of their problem, and one giving an advantage to Apple's form of mobile gaming... :p

Anyway, Sony doesn't even deserve better sales from their PSP. It's getting old, and the mobile landscape has changed a lot since it was released in its first version, and the expectations people had back then from mobile products.
 
wreckshop said:
Don't try to tell me what you think I meant to say. I know exactly what I meant to say. Let me explain it to you since you dont actually live here. If I was on the train and picked out 10 random guys who are using their iphones, the majority of them will be gay. Thats because something like 40% of the guys that live here are gay, and they all own iphones. So my statement:

"Where I live, if you are a male and have an iphone, you are likely to be a homosexual"

is correct.
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I was giving you the benefit of the doubt. The majority of men in San Francisco are not gay. You are not making sense. The only way what you are saying would be true is if NO straight men used iPhones, which is far from true. So no, your statement is invalid, sorry.
 
The PSP is a joke. I run a video game website that lists the games releasing each month, and every month I struggle to find a PSP game worth mentioning. It's gotten to the point where there is maybe one good exclusive PSP game every three to six months.

No one is buying PSP software and hardly anyone is buying PSP hardware. Sony barely supports the PSP themselves, so I don't understand why they came up with this ad. Or the entire campaign for that matter.
 
I bought a PSP a couple years back, mainly so I could run NES/SNES emulators on it. I bought a couple native games for it, Lumines 1 & 2, Super Ghouls and Ghosts. I would probably be interested in running a few classic PSX games on it as well, but I just never play the dang thing.

I usually get it out 2-3 times a year when I'm going to be on an airplane, and that's really about it. I have little cousins who want to borrow the damn thing, but I know I'd never get it back. The question is would I care?
 
I didn't know the PSP was still being sold i have not seen one in years now, the game shops round here don't carry PSP games only DS, PS3, PS2, 360, Wii and a half self of mixed PC and Mac games.

I can't think of anyone other than my boyfriend i seen him use it for one game then shove it in the drawer for the last 2 years.

Anyway regarding this ad i think the PSP still looks to bulky to carry around and would rather take my iPhone with me for gaming, though during a long plain journey i constantly went to my DS.
 
Probably a subject that's been beaten to death but...

Nice use of stereotypes. The nerdy, out of touch white boy and the urban, hip, jive-talking black kid.

It doesn't behoove the subsidiary of a Japanese parent company to do this, not with Japan's reputation for xenophobia.

But, at the very least, it's a laughable (as opposed to funny) throwback to commercials of the early 1980's.

EDIT: Yes, I know that the black kid is a personality and that's his shtick... but it's still a misguided stereotype of black people. The fact that he uses it to appeal to a broad demographic just makes it all the more racist.
 
*LTD* said:
The PSP is dead.

Sony's fear is palpable.

A Nintendo ad soon to follow.
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Deluded as usual I see.

Avatar74 said:
Probably a subject that's been beaten to death but...

Nice use of stereotypes. The nerdy, out of touch white boy and the urban, hip, jive-talking black kid.

It doesn't behoove the subsidiary of a Japanese parent company to do this, not with Japan's reputation for xenophobia.

But, at the very least, it's a laughable (as opposed to funny) throwback to commercials of the early 1980's.

EDIT: Yes, I know that the black kid is a personality and that's his shtick... but it's still a misguided stereotype of black people. The fact that he uses it to appeal to a broad demographic just makes it all the more racist.
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Oh my yes. Sony cannot do adverts for the Playstation. They've had mildy racist adverts in the past, absurd and surreal ones that don't sell the product, mexican scribbles... they're mad. They really can't do it.

You'd think that by manufacturing the only handheld to ever give Nintendo a run for their money they'd put a bit more effort into promoting it.
 
pooryou said:
I was giving you the benefit of the doubt. The majority of men in San Francisco are not gay. You are not making sense. The only way what you are saying would be true is if NO straight men used iPhones, which is far from true. So no, your statement is invalid, sorry.
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Dude.. learn how to read. I never said most of the men in San Francisco are gay. I said around 30% and they all own iphones.

Ok let me break it down for you since you're obviously not getting it. Let's pretend that San Francisco has only 100 dudes living there. 30% are gay and they all own iphones. So thats 30 out of 100 that own iphones. I'll be very generous and say that half of all the guys that live in San Francisco own an iphone - so that makes it 20 straight guys. So now you have 30 gay dudes that own iphones and 20 straight guys that own iphones - half of all the guys in SF own iphones, the rest own some other kind of phone. If I randomly pick 1 guy from that combined pool of 50 iphone owning dudes, it is more likely than not that person will be gay.

So once again: Where I live, if you are a male and have an iphone, you are likely to be a homosexual
 
Sony should worry less about iPhone gaming and more about the sad state of affairs with the PSP. When the PSP finally does capsize it will have little to do with Apple.

Nintendo on the other hand is clearly still committed to it's mobile gaming division and has more to lose potentially than Sony.
 
Its a phone

wlessard said:
Where in the ad does it say iPhone? From what I could tell it was simply a comparison of iPod Touch vs. PSP.
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Reference "texting your grandma and calling your girl." Sony PSP is dead. Their cheapest game is $9.99 where that is the top end of most iphone/ipod touch/ipad games. Unless Sony makes the PSP into a phone, oh and adds GPS and game store...good bye. With the increase pressure know in the marketplace now being exerted by Android, it won't be long before an Android-driven gaming device shows up. Then, both PSP and Nintendo will be finished.
 
^ Against the DS? That's fairly deluded. The DS is set to become the best selling games console of all time.

keiths29 said:
Reference "texting your grandma and calling your girl." Sony PSP is dead. Their cheapest game is $9.99 where that is the top end of most iphone/ipod touch/ipad games. Unless Sony makes the PSP into a phone, oh and adds GPS and game store...good bye. With the increase pressure know in the marketplace now being exerted by Android, it won't be long before an Android-driven gaming device shows up. Then, both PSP and Nintendo will be finished.
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No it's not. I've bought PS1 games on PSN for £1.50 in the past. Minis cost around £2.50.

Those (here) £7.99 games include Street Fighter Alpha 3 (the most content rich portable SF there is), Monster Hunter Unite (500 hours gameplay), LocoRoco, Patapon, Wipeout. Critically acclaimed and large games. These aren't mini games that barely push the 1 or 2 hour mark.
 
The advert sucks balls. What a load of crap. Makes me wanna smash the little kid in the face.
 
Horrible idea for Sony

Sony is so desperate that they have to advertise really old games on the new psp to compete with apple? I think the character "Marcus" is cool and all but the iPhone does so much more than just gaming. Also look at the "Rage" Demo for iPhone blows psp out of the water!! Psp you need to "step your game up" haha
 
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