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How great would it be if the last-gen game consoles could go portable?
I’ve had a pretty interesting night that went from watching half of Resident Evil: Degeneration, to wikiing the games and the movies, to finding out that the original resident evil was released on the DS last year, to looking up prototypes of portable game machines made to play the games of the first half of this incredible decade! Here’s some stuff I found
http://palmps2.com/palmps2/index.html — one of the few portable PS2 prototypes people built that I thought was the most kickass of the bunch.
http://www.weblogsinc.com/common/images/ 0399631295330486.JPG?0.9588080630854161 — a portable GC. Makes sense right? because the disks are small!!
Xbox portable? well, there are prototypes of a possible portable system Microsoft may make that’d compete with the DS and the PSP, but no-one seems to care about actually being able to play the console games on the rode. Let’s face it, Microsoft did pretty miserably with its original Xbox comparing to its competition.
But anyway, I thought, man that would be so cool!!! Now that everyone is slowly getting used to the newer generation with the motion control and the 1080i graphics, those last-gen consoles are just looking a bit ugly on your large HDTV screen.
So what do I want, you ask? Well I want Nintendo and Sony to do something about it! Give it a shot, create the devices and sell a few just to see if anybody buys it. I mean, just because portable devices are getting smaller and slimmer doesn’t mean a true gamer wouldn’t give money for his/her fave console of the near past made portable! All these babies need is some hard-drive memory for DLC (say both from older generations like PSone and N64), Wi-Fi so people could play against each other or go online wirelessly, and in Nintendo’s case, maybe figure out a way to make it a transformable part-DS lite part-GameCube device so you could play an entire decade of great Nintendo games.
one concern though…
HOW THE HECK DO YOU MAKE THIS DREAM INTO A REALITY??!!!
Sony’s announcement of the PlayStation 3 Slim on Tuesday was no surprise for most gamers and industry experts. Parts that once cost a small fortune, such as hard drives, processors, and special disc-reading lenses, continue to fall in price and take up less space. It’s only natural the machines that use them would shrink as well.
The PlayStation 3 was physically the largest of the three current-generation home consoles, followed by Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Nintendo’s Wii. With never-ending lust by consumers for smaller gadgets, the current configuration was just not cutting it.
What’s surprising about the Slim, though, is that Sony was the second-most recent of the three companies to have released its console, yet it’s the first to offer a completely new form factor. Microsoft was the first out of the gate with a North America release of the Xbox 360 in late November 2005. Sony and Nintendo followed suit with the PlayStation 3 and Wii, respectively, which were released a week apart from each other in mid-November 2006.
The closest either Nintendo or Microsoft has come to a redesign since is Microsoft, which began including an HDMI port and increasing the included storage, alongside a major revision to the system software which allowed games to be played off the hard drive.
In the case
Lucy | Oct 18, 2009
If you have a lot of money (probably something like $1000 or maybe more; I’m not sure), you could probably ask a modder like Ben Heck to custom make one for you.
Here’s his site: http://benheck.com/
The thing is, major companies would never release old consoles as portables. It’s because they make their money primarily from software (which for an old console is all second hand - meaning they don’t get a cent). It would also compete with the new systems like DS and PSP that they are making a killing off.
Plus, R&D isn’t cheap…
And while I’m at it, you can hack a PSP to play any PSOne, SNES, NES, Genesis/Mega Drive, Master System, TG16, etc. etc. game that you want (pretty much).
Esposch | Oct 18, 2009
