Is 48k minutes a lot LMAO

I mean yea that’s kinda my point, Sony had to have known they were not in fact Nintendo and were definitely not going to keep up with the amount of games Nintendo published. Keeping the drive would have been a cheap way to get a running start on the library.

They got greedy and thought people would be happy to re buy PSP games AND fork over money for their insanely priced memory sticks

Id like to formally propose !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world as the new /c/news lmao

It was a gimmicky touch pad, the no drive is a negative, without that there was 0 backwards compatibility with the PSPs large library. Which I peg as the main reason it floundered so hard

OLED, 3G and better wifi could have easily been added to a 4th gen PSP iteration

The UMD, was decent enough, it was optical after all. The problem was they took it away for a gimmicky rear touchpad and in turn locked out all backwards compatibility with PSP games. Which in turn, led to its ultimate downfall because it didn’t have the big backfill of a library when it REALLY needed it to head off the rising smartphone competition (Vita released in 2012)

Display and sticks were better yea, but nothing groundbreaking that couldn’t have been included on a 4th gen PSP iteration.

Also the UI was shit, they replaced the nice XMR/CBR (Whatever it was called) with those stupid bubbles.

Pick up a pair of “Gullikit joycon Hall FX sensors” and never worry about drift again. Hall FX sensors are damn near the perfect joystick

I’ve seen the pair go for ~$20

PS Vita is a straight downupgrade

FTFY

Not having sympathy for the death of another/Saying karma bit them in the ass != Wishing for another’s dearh

They dropped the UMD drive and replaced it with that gimmicky rear touchpad thing is probably the biggest reason.

They dropped something incredibly functional and would have given the Vita access to the entire library of PSP games at a time when it needed that library the most to compete against the smartphone (Vita was released in 2012)

I think the 3DS/DS were able to remain dominant so long even in the face of strong competition from the rise of the smartphone was because of the deep library of older titles to keep it going forward.

Oh man yea there was like 3 iterations between the original and the Vita. In the beginning there was not a whole lot, but towards the end there were a ton of games and a lot of bangers. I think there were like 600+ total games released by the end

God of War, GTA Vice City, Burnout, Ace Combat to name a few excellent classics

Now, but when it was released, it sucked. I think it’s biggest downfall was they didn’t add a UMD drive to it so it wasn’t backwards compatible with any of the PSP games. If they kept that, it might have sold well.

Sweet spot for the Nintendo world 100% agreed, but not for portable gaming at large. Nintendo made a lot of concessions on raw power to bring price down

PSP, while more expensive, hit a solid sweet spot between portability and power. It truly felt like you were playing on just a small console rather than a DS which gave the distinct feeling of playing on something “portable”

Fr, it truly felt like I was just playing a pocket version of a PS3. I took mine EVERYWHERE, and played it WAY more than my DS lol

And those “portals” you could load on to the memory stick and access via the web browser with games n shit lol

Doesn’t Ubuntu and a few other distros still sell physical install discs?

it will just be even worse, a concentrated “tankie” circlejerk

It’s already a tankie circle jerk over there, you can’t concentrate what’s already concentrated.

visible to plenty of newbies. Then what?

Visible yes, but its a LOT easier to say “Oh yea that’s the tankie instance, they’re small so just block it and move on” rather than

“Oh yea that’s the tankie instance, but they’re also one of the biggest instances, so if you block them you’ll be cutting off a decent chunk of non-tankie content”

So many stories of “I signed up on .ml because it was one of the biggest, then I realized it was full of Tankies and signed up elsewhere” and if there’s stories of that, there’s probably many more where the person just left and never came back because what they saw was a place was full of toxic tankies

Fuck absolutely everyone who turns Lemmy into yet another Internet battlefield.

This is what the tankies do, would you rather have them just run roughshod all over Lemmy spreading hostile country authoritarian propaganda?

Leave .ml alone. Leave Hexbear alone. Even yes - leave Lemmygrad alone. People there will not change their opinion when facing hatred

Not about changing Tankie opinions, they’re too far gone, this is about pushing back on the spread of authoritarian BS.

and newbies coming there doesn’t change the big picture, as Lemmy is federated and they can figure stuff out for themselves.

“Don’t tell the new comers to town about the Nazis at the Nazi bar, let them figure it out for themselves so they have a negative experience and leave”

Trying to silence entire instances, especially the biggest ones, is absolutely not a welcoming picture to whoever’s coming here

If they’re (admins and mods) going to allow a toxic culture on their instance, then it doesn’t matter their size. Toxic Tankies is not a good look at all.

and being cut out and filtered for happening to choose the “wrong” instance is the worst possible greeting.

The worst possible greeting, is seeing Tankie shit takes with paragraphs of “Russia/China did nothing wrong” and everyone going “We let them post their stuff because we don’t want to hurt their fefes”

Ofc the writers would make a hell of a twist for the 2024 season end, and then phone it in for season 2025. SMDH

How about China is, in fact, a dictatorship for starters. The Communist in “Chinese Communist Party” is just there for show.

Go ask about the Uyghurs in China over there and get back to me

Honestly, that’s just sticking your head in the sand. Newcomers aren’t going to have those filters. Their Tankie BS should be called out every time.