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Sony's NGP: It's The Little Things That Matters
Posted on Friday, January 28 2011 @ 05:49:11 Eastern

Touch screen, Front and rear cameras, Wi-fi and 3G network? Yes these great specs are available with Sony’s NGP (Next Generation Portable), but do we really want to care so much toward these three details? It seems today every mobile device has these three specs (maybe not both front and rear cameras, but you get the picture). Everywhere you look, you always see that advertisement for a smart phone saying, “Oh rabble rabble rabble 3G/4G network rabble rabble.” You can’t get away from it.

People are so fascinated knowing they’ll be able to control this device with touch screen technology along with the abilities. Being able to take pictures is a nice feature. Guess Sony does have to compete with the Nintendo 3DS don’t they? After reading these specs about Sony’s NGP, I started to list what specs I valued the most. Laughing to myself, I found out it was the specs we least worried about concerning the most to me.

What would you assume would be my favorite feature of the NGP? Do you believe it’s the touch screen? How about the camera abilities? Why not the ability to connect wirelessly around the world? If you are guessing I would favorite one of these, then you guess wrong. My favorite part of the NGP (so far) is the addition of a new analog stick. Yes, I value this more than fancy touch screens. Here’s why

When playing games with the PSP, did you think it was rather difficult controlling the camera with your action buttons? Exactly! How hard was it for you to target your opponent in an FPS game? Yes, those actions buttons aren’t exactly your resource for fast reaction now are they.

It’s not even those stubs that came on the PSP. They actually look like analogs sticks. Being able to use these babies is by far better than having a touch screen in my opinion.

It’s the little things that matter that makes a big difference. We could go about and keep making the new technology into smaller devices, or we can correct the mistakes in the previous. Sony’s NGP has done both (so far) and hopefully these are some reasons why it won’t fail and perhaps live up to its name "Next Generation Portable."

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BrianLee
Joined: Feb 2011

Posted: Feb 4th, 2011 at 8:44 pm
These specs are enough to kick in over 70% of the market share from recent handhelds. Best Rpg Games and Adventure Games will be fun to play on this toy.

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Blazin13
Joined: Dec 2010

Posted: Mar 3rd, 2011 at 3:19 pm
I have to agree that the analog sticks have been my favorite new addition to the GNP over the PSP, I will be able to have real character and camera control in games! Although I personally would purchase the GNP from a hardware standpoint the 3DS will still dominate the GNP in sales, at least initially. I can say, with some degree of accuracy that the DS and Nintendo own the handheld market for the time being, hopefully though this will change.

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tinymhg
Joined: Jun 2011

Posted: Jul 14th, 2011 at 7:22 am
The second analog stick maybe your favorite feature, and is a good solid addition. But it is probably the biggest DUH in game system design history. The PSP didn’t have one, and everyone *****ed and moaned about it. Just about every non-motion controller, on the market today has 2 analog sticks. Xbox 360, PS3, and third party controllers all have the second analog stick, in fact I’d say it’s an industry standard. Sony probably didn’t even discuss putting in the second analog stick, accepting it as a forgone conclusion. Then you and G4’s Adam Sessler both act as if it was some stroke of genius to add a second analog stick to this thing. No, not a stroke of genius just Sony listening to their customer base, and knowing that if they didn’t add the second analog stick no one would buy it or develop games for it. As I said the biggest DUH in game system design history!

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