MARK DUKES

Whatever happened to the PSP? The device that Sony once touted as "the Walkman for the 21st century" is fast disappearing from popular consciousness, and if you believe the rumors circulating just three-and-a-half years after its launch, it's up for a major rethink in 2009.

Over the crucial month of November, the Nintendo DS shifted a jaw-dropping 1.5 million units in the US alone (up 20% from last year) while the PSP languished, managing just 421,000 sales -- actually down 27%, in what was in general a tremendously strong month for video games.

Even the software support is eroding. Despite the PSP's healthy install base of around 13 million consumers, only six 2008 PSP releases scored better than 80% on review aggregating site gamerankings.com, compared with 16 on the DS. There's a good reason for that: nobody's making PSP games, because outside of one or two hits like this year's Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core, nobody's buying them. That's only going to worsen when the superheavyweight Grand Theft Auto series (previously exclusive to the PSP on handhelds) releases its first DS title early next year.

In a lot of ways, it's a shame. The PSP is a far more capable hardware platform than the DS. It's a phone, a portable music player, a pocket-sized movie device, a mobile web browser, and when paired with a Playstation 3, a remarkably capable remote control for the system, capable of streaming music and movies from a PS3 over the Internet to wherever you happen to be.

Next to it, the DS looks like a product of another age. It's barely capable of 3D, let alone delivering a suite of mobile applications of the PSP's caliber. Not, in fact, unlike the contrast between the Playstation 3 (modern, immensely powerful, and pricey) and the Wii (underpowered, basic, and cheap.) Oh, and phenomenally successful. The parallels you can draw between Sony and Nintendo's offerings go deep.

But then, set the PSP next to the iPhone or iPod Touch, the year's other big winner in portable gaming, and the PSP's hardware design suddenly looks old hat. Where's the touchscreen? What are all these buttons for? What on earth is the point of this useless analog nub of a joystick? And why, in an age when flash memory is so cheap it practically comes in Cheerios boxes, are we still stuck with a huge, bulky, slow, and noisy optical drive? If you're going to compete by offering a powerful hardware platform, you actually need to outperform the competition. As the iPhone steps into the portable gaming ring, it's already got the PSP on the ropes.

Guess what, Sony: Apple already made the Walkman of the 21st century, and you missed the boat.

By Mark Dukes

today i seen

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

it was amazeing i LOVED it you must see this movie its about a baby born as an 80 year old and grows
as a kid looking like he is 80 years old to a man in his 40s to a teenager at 17 to a kid at 8 to a toddler at 4 and back to a baby
it was sad :( funny =D and every thing you can think of brad pitt is so funny seeing him as an old man and than to a kid

this move is the best movie iv ever seen much better than " Big Fish " or " The Note Book " ( yes i seen the note book ) lol
its the best christmas movie ever
i give this movie a ***** 5 STARS best drama ever

hope you had a good christmas and have a very happy new year!
By Mark Dukes

NEXT UP IS.... WHAT EVER I SEE NEXT!

Yes is the new No lol
this is funny as hell but not the best of comedys ever its not an epic fail its good
you will saying YES and NO after the movie but this is not the best work iv seen from JimCary
like " Bruce Almigty " was very funny " Evan Almigty " not so funny
but damn you got to see this i liked it alot so i give YES MAN
***** 5 STARS


NEXT UP IS.... WHAT EVER I SEE NEXT!

merry x mas every one and a happy new year from mark dukes

i want MOTHER for the NES game ( its a game from japan and we got MOTHER 2 known as EarthBound in the U.S. )
the STAR WARS saga on DVD and the new STAR WARS THE CLONE WARS DVD
a PS3
a Camera
the STAR TREK movies on DVD
some PS3 games
a Nintendo DSi ( if it can play games in the U.S. )
GuitarHero World Tour for xbox360
and a PIG so i can name him Babe lol just kidding but it wood be sweet to have a pet pig lol
and yea thats about it

HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM MARK DUKES!
AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

oh my god...
this...
was...
so...
damn...
FUNNY!!!
" im a dude playin a dude discised as another dude! " lol
it was to funny you gota watch the credits to see whos in it
but it was funny all the way this was a f*cking crack up
u gota BUY it! best funny movie i have ever seen in my whole 13 going on 14 years of life lol

i give it ***** 5 fucking stars lol




UP NEXT IS... WHAT EVER I SEE NEXT!!! lol

yea i just rented it
and it was good and like always it was action packed lol
the story was good but not the best
lots and lots of action lol
hell boy was pretty bad ass
and there is a german guy in the movie and he is cool
he is like a ghost in a space suit or something lol
( i dont even like germans cuzz they killed us gypsys in world was I and II )
but he was cool
i never read a HellBoy comic book before so i cant say if it fallowed the comics
well but i did enjoy this one
i give it **** 4 stars


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