Indeed. I think the whole hard drive thing is over-complicating this, as well, making game consoles way too much like PCs. Particularly annoying is when a game decides to install a bunch of data to the hard drive to "improve performance", which happens to take a few minutes (and really sucks). "Improve performance" has always been a dirty word with game consoles, because they all have identical hardware; nobody should have to worry about compatibility, and the developers should thus be easily able to optimize the game to work on that hardware. The PSP slim is a disappointing departure from that, and so is the hard drive thing.
Remember when we could just pop the cartridge in and have the game, with all of our save data, right there?
Making people have to choose between three different versions is just stupid. That both Sony and Microsoft are doing this shows, in my opinion, that they have lost their direction, and forgotten why game consoles are good for games: Because they are supposed to be Easy!
Remember when we could just pop the cartridge in and have the game, with all of our save data, right there?
Making people have to choose between three different versions is just stupid. That both Sony and Microsoft are doing this shows, in my opinion, that they have lost their direction, and forgotten why game consoles are good for games: Because they are supposed to be Easy!