I picked up a Sony PSP the other day. I love it! I got it used and from the condition of the system, I couldn't say no to the low price (compared to buying it new).
That said, there is a part of me that wishes it held out to import the ceramic white PSP. The consoles are exactly the same (except for region encoding on UMD movies) harwarewise, but the control scheme is slightly different. The japanese software uses <Circle> to confirm and <X> to go back. It is opponsite for the North American (and Europe as well I believe). Honestly though, I'll live. I'm going to import some japanese games! Airport Hero looks especially good, I played the demo.
Another thing though, the Playtation controller is heavily based on the Super Nintendo controller as far as button layout is concerned. The names of the face buttons were changed from Y->Square, X->Triangle, A->Circle, and B->X. In my experience, A has been confirm and B has been cancelled. In japanese games on the Playstation, things have continued this way with Circle confirming. Why did it change in North America?
Also, I've noticed racing games (well, Gran Turismo and Initial D anyway) use both X and Circle for confirm. I like it like that too.
My point: I feel that circle is a more natural choice for a "confirm" button. Thank you Kojima Productions and Poliphony Digital for maintaining this standard for your North American releases.
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xMatronxMalicex | Sep 18, 2008 4:54 PM
I've had mine since the first year and I'm still loving it. If you're looking for some good games for the system, I'd reccomend the rerelease of Tactics, Disgaea, and Valkyrie Profile. They're well worth the money. If you're looking for some good action/platformers, Daxter and, of course, God of War. Final Fantasy 1 & 2 are kind of a rip off though, you're better of buying the one for the GBA because then you get them both for the price of one.
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ani__ | Jun 22, 2007 5:13 PM
I actually don't like my PSP as much as I was hoping I would. But the games have been getting much better since I bought mine and i'm looking foward to the Final Fantasy games coming out though.
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the_pillows | Jun 21, 2007 8:58 PM
finally, another person who enjoys the psp...i got one a while back and i'm very impressed with all the features it has...it's still kinda surprising to me that it's getting slaughtered by the ds in sales... v_v i blame pokemon...i didn't even know about the whole button layout thing until i read this though...i'm used to having x be confirm though...now i'm just waiting for the final fantasy tactics remake and monster hunter freedom 2...anyways, congrats on your psp purchase... :D |