PSP Media Manager PSP Review - PlayStation Portable

11/12/05 greenwald313

Sony just doesnt get it. You cant get the average consumer to do "new" things on a new platform and expect to charge the consumer. The consumer will just ignore. This aplication wasn't really made for us, we know how to do this, instead it was made for the non tech suavvy person. The guy that buys a crappy game like Gretsky 05 for 50 bucks at wallmart cause he knows no better. He, the average consumer, is not educated in tech and will therefore never use the full potential of the psp.The average consumer is never going to pay $20 for somthing he does not know how to use or what to do with it. If you really want the average consumer to use the psp u give them the aplication for free. Like itunes with podcast support. Beforehand no one used podcast because they knew nothing about it and most importantly the cost. Now your grandmother can easily
listen to her favorite larry king interview on her ipod. While this might be pathetic it is also very good business. It spread the word of this new technology so fast without having to spend much money on promoting it. It gives extra features never used before by the average consumer, fetures that may have swayed the consumer to buy a paticular product. If sony would give this for free to the average person word would spread fast. And without spending much money either. There is still some of ignorance about the psp 8 months after the launch.All of this because the average consumer never really knew about all of the potential of this new platform. Sony execs keep on saying that there will be conpatibility with their products, over and over again. So far nothing has happened. AS far as i know sony's own connect store doesnt have easy compatibliity with the psp, never less it is a very dry aplication. Hell i cant even get a stright forward answer on whether or not i can swap memory sticks with the new WALKMAN phone which uses the same memory stick duo. If i dont get a answer soon im not going to buy the phone. That is 500 bucks down the drain for sony. Neverless that the major audience for the phone are the same people that own psp's. I would of bought a 2 gig memory stick too. Another few hundred down the drain. If sony does not fix the problem of confusing conectivity without having to buy an apliaction that should be free the multimedia conponents of the psp will sink outside of our boards. What a shame considering that 3 out of the 4 dffrent buttons , Music, photo, video and Game, will be rendered useless considering it is what the entire campain of the psp is about.

(NOTE1 Can sombody pleese give me an answer on the WAlKMAN phone thing is, im goin crazy cause the support centers aperantly dont know)

(Note 2- The whole dvd ripping issue is tough to adress, for a long time it is gonna be a side issue until the supreme court can handle it, most likely going to give control to the movie indrustry. All u people forget sony makes alot of its money making movies, so im sure there against ripping dvds considering we could so" hapily" buy them for 20 bucks on umd and drain our money to give them more.)