It’s Pride Month, therefore companies will mainly either have rainbows to pretend they care, or they won’t under believing a threat of getting taxed as much as rich jerks should be in the first place. Speaking of companies, Sony is one of those, and they make PlayStations. They’re up to five now, if you don’t count the portables and all the revisions or variants of everything. And they really want people to buy their consoles so they’re dropping the idea of porting all of their games to PC a year later either decently or half-assedly.
I had a moment of not much going on at work so I watched the Sony Direct. I know calling it that is confusing because there’s an actual PlayStation Direct which is a store I’ve gotten things from before, but you hopefully get what I mean with the name. They started with the Wolverine game I forgot they were making, where you can play as HUGE JACKMAN except actually not. Everyone in that game is full of red paint, and they did kinda have that thing where he gets visibly beaten up from taking damage, except he didn’t go full skeleton this time, just kinda fleshy then mashed a button to regrow some skin I guess. Also sometimes his suit heals itself. Then there was that anime Marvel fighting game I also forgot about, then a bunch of other stuff I don’t really remember right now.
Ghostwire Tokyo seems to be most remembered for showing us this wonderful lady, and she’s back with another game that also involves yokai, but is more of a third person hack and slash kinda thing. They mentioned some PS2 games coming to the subscription service and those looked most interesting, namely because one was Gitaroo Man. They ended with a long segment showing the intro of a God of War reboot spinoff which is named after some indie musician I think. I’m calling it Mom of War because the spinoffs I call Dad of War, but sometimes Dad of Boy, and there’s a talking gelatinous cube who occasionally jumps into enemies and a talking sword ribbon who serves as a main weapon, because otherwise I guess I would have spaced out during most of it instead of just some. I haven’t played the new games. Or the old games even. I was also wondering if it was going to be a remaster of the original reboot Dad of War at first because for all I know they’d pull that. If I was making the game it would have probably ended up having the cube be playable because I just gel more with weird characters.
Anyway, my attention at the moment seems to be looking at the PlayStation Portable. I recently had to replace the battery in one, which if you have one or more of these things, remember to check the battery so you don’t sleep on any spicy pillows. Also should probably leave the batteries unplugged if not playing them for a while. I remembered how they had the UMD stuff, where it was being talked up as this new revolutionary format, but it ended up being only for the PSP essentially. They also had movies on there and I started wondering about what and how many movies ended up on there. Last time I looked at a fairly long list, it mentioned under a thousand but a fair bit over halfway. Apparently some porn was published on UMD as well. You’d think that would help but apparently not that time.
So now I’m looking at various PSP discs I can get for cheap wherever I can find those. It was an interesting time where handheld gaming was starting to get really good with graphics power, even though they still had to be cut down a bit for limitations. Also the fact that it was a decent and large enough screen that one could sit down and watch a movie on there and the battery might actually last through a couple. Now we just have smartphones which are increasingly stupid and handheld PCs which are increasingly doubling in price. Also whatever Nintendo’s doing, which at least that’s got some interesting games and isn’t completely skyrocketing in cost, just a bit at a time for now, but eventually it will catch up. Maybe by the end of next year.
So of course I’m looking at cheap games. Not just Steam sales, but random old stuff. And maybe a handful of movies thrown in too because why not. The PSP was interesting with its cartridge disc format straight out of 1980s-1990s cyberpunk type movies. Then they made one that didn’t use those so it was smaller and looked like a then-current fancy phone with the slide-out bit. And I think they actually made a phone version, or at least a similar phone that may or may not have actually played PSP games, if only downloads. In any case, while I do know how to load up whatever on a PSP and even run whatever works in the one emulator I know of for its games, the physical media of it has drawn my interest again. We’ll see if I ever become interested in a Vita though. Maybe if I wanna check out so much anime exclusive to it or something.