Here's how Sony's new PSP will control your life

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All Hands On Deck
Here's how Sony's new handheld platform will control your life. (It
went to puppeteer college!)

Stuff, 3/7/2005
By Seth Kelly

Sony's new PlayStation Portable storms American shores March 24. The
$250 price tag will include, among other things, a PSP, a 32 MB Memory
Stick Duo, headphones and a case. With its vast color screen,
multimedia features and raw power, the PSP is poised to revolutionize
mobile entertainment. Yeah, we were hoping for a revolution with
guillotines and cannons, too.

Serious Screen
The PSP has a true 16:9 ratio and a 4.3-inch-wide screen that dwarfs
those found on the Nintendo DS, the Game Boy Advance and the Nokia
N-Gage QD. It sports a 480 x 272 pixel count and displays an
astonishing 16.7 million colors. Which is about 16,699,995 more colors
than we have on our Lite-Brite.

Multimedia Monster
Whether you want to play a season of Madden or watch a season of The
Simpsons, the PSP is your gadget. All games and most other content
will come on UMD (Universal Media Disc). The first million PSPs sold
will include a copy of Spider-Man 2, the only movie available on UMD
at the time of the PSP's release. Sony promises to provide more movies
and TV content soon, but until then you can download files from the
Net or your PC to the Memory Stick via WiFi or USB 2.0 port. The PSP's
speakers are at least twice as ballsy as John Mayer, but to make the
most of the Dolby Digital 7.1, you'll need to pick up some good
headphones. Being cheap is not as attractive as you think it is.

PS2 Junior
For such a pint-size piece of machinery, the PSP comes with nearly all
the features of a PS2, lacking only the right thumb stick and two of
the shoulder buttons found on full-size PlayStation controllers. WiFi
support lets you go head-to-head with up to 15 other gamers on a local
wireless network and opens up the future possibility of gaming over
the Internet. The PSP's Dual MIPS R4000 processors flex nearly as much
muscle as the chips in its big brother (and that's before we fed them
andro!). If similar hardware specs don't get your rocks off, the
avalanche of gaming titles will. Besides getting brand-new games
including Death Jr. and Lumines, PSP owners will also get extensions
of classic Sony franchises. Can you say Metal Gear Acid? Of course you
can. Now stop talking to yourself.

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"I was mean. I would see a girl across the ring and think, 'She's trying to take what I've fought for all my life.' Next thing, I'd be gouging eyes, pulling hair--whatever I had to do, that's what I did."
-- Lillian "Fabulous Moolah" Ellison (81)