After I left the office yesterday I went home and picked up Nat. I told her we are going to Aramex to pick up the PSP. She was like didn’t they say 8AM tomorrow? I was like whatever, they get the packages tonight, we camp at Aramex till they get them. I was like worse case we have a bunch of magazines that arrived at Aramex last week, we pick those up and read them while we wait. So we get to Aramex at 7PM and right as I am about to open the door of the car, Aramex call me. They tell me my package arrived and I can pick it up. I was like thanks, I am right outside! We pick up the PSP, park on the side of the road and we start tearing up the boxes. Luckily our PSP came with a starter kit which included a car power adapter.
We switch on the PSP, and first thing I start looking for are dead pixels (dots on the screen which don’t change color). There was a speckle of dust on the screen I tried to remove with my finger when I realized that the tiny speckle was a dead pixel. I was like this is it? For some reason I expected it to be bigger, but because the PSP screens pixels are very fine, a dead pixel is barely noticeable even when the whole screen is black. I ended up finding 2 dead pixels, one on the first row and one in the middle right of the screen. Both not noticeable even when looking for them.
We got the Spider Man 2 movie with the PSP so that was the first thing we played. I was totally blown away, the image was extremely clear, sharp and the colors very accurate. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I am no stranger to technology but the screen was like nothing I had seen before. I then put the game WipeOut Pure and let Nataly play till we got home. Once home we were able to try out the other games and get a better feel of the PSP.
My only disappointment is in the sound department. The built in PSP speakers are not good enough. I don’t know what I was expecting but I know I wasnt expecting speakers you would find on a gameboy. With the earphones on though you get totally immersed in the game.
The good things about the PSP? The screen definetly is the coolest thing, when lying in bed at night watching SpiderMan 2, for a brief moment with all the lights off you would think you lived in the future. Its like having a plasma screen that fit into your hand. The load times of the games were unnoticeable. On paper 10 seconds feels a lot but in reality its hardly noticeable, except for the game Tony Hawk were load times were longer then 10 seconds. The battery life was high, I spent 2 hours atleast playing with the PSP and then put the system on standby and today morning I checked and it was still at 90% charge. Also incase you have a spare battery swapping them is very easy.
In conclusion, as I mentioned on Miskan, there is no PSP vs DS war. The war is over. There really wasn’t a war to begin with. While the Nintendo DS is catering for under 18s the PSP is catering for people aged over 18. They are two different machines for two different groups. I will probably definitely get a DS but like my gamecube it will probably gather dust in the cupboard. Click here for a picture of my PSP with my PDA and phone.
8 replies on “The PSP Experience”
I told you the dead pixel not a big deal,
The psp is the future 🙂
what about need for speed its good ?
its like need for speed underground 1 or 2?
when i told nibaq the DS is a toy, he asked me what is the PSP then? I told him the future.
hehe
NFS is cool, havent played it that much yet. the graphics are not the same as the xbox, they are more like a first generation ps2. its closer to NFS 2 then 1.
If the dead pixels get annoying, send the psp with my parents (early may). I will have sony replace it for you.
yeah sure, i will do that… definetly… not
I talked to some people at EB Games and they say that ALL PSPs have dead pixels. They can be light dead pixels or dark dead pixels, the light ones arent noticed unless you have a dark background and vise versa. The light ones arent so bad.
Congrats man.
Hope you have a lot of fun with it.
…lucky.
I bought a PSP ever since launch day.My PSP has no dead pixels.I have the 2.5 version on my PSP,and I’ve put light and dark backgrounds on my PSP.And no dead pixels are shown on my PSP.Thats just an issue some PSP’s have and not all.Besides,PSP is not the only device that has those kind of problems.Come to mind,I had a DS as well,and what a shame,that when I was playing super mario 64,it had a dead pixel right in the middle of the top screen…..PSP is just the way to go.Thats all there is to it.