Portable Media Whore

Didn’t much of anything today; an aborted weekly game of Monster Hunter Freedom in multi-player was balanced off by some last minute work for a rush job that someone wanted, and so while I spent my time typing away at the keyboard, I took advantage of the desk jockey time to abuse my latest purchase; I finally got a 1 Gig memory stick duo for my PSP.

So while I’m coming pretty late to this particular party, the 1 Gig now frees me to seriously abuse the storage space of my PSP and consequently vast amounts of pointless video and music have made their way to my little black brick. I now have the first episode of the poorly animated Jim Lee’s WildCATs sitting in my videos, along with an episode of Speed Racer some cheesy free music videos available on the PSP site, and a bunch of video game music from some of my faovrite RPGs like Suikoden III and Kingdom Hearts. At some point I’ll have to get around to putting some actual MUSIC on there, like Tori Amos and Sarah MacLachlan, but in the meantime, I have officially graduated to one of those annoying people who brings a complete, portable media system that allows me to watch videos, listen to tune-age or actually play games. Of course, the cool part is, The Wife being an artist, she makes me custom wallpaper for my PSP desktop that no one else has. May not seem like much but in Limited Collector Edition Rarity Is Good Singapore, this is a sign of Xtreme 133tne55.

Oh, and earlier today I was told that the BBC story has already been run, meaning that now the hardest of the hardcore geeks will call me out for being an ignorant bastard; I blame the fact that I didn’t know I was going to be interviewed and thus had little time to think about it, but in fact, it’s NOT TRUE that the PS3 will be the most expensive console ever produced. That honor goes to Trip Hawkin’s 3DO, the first true CD-ROM console which debuted in 1993 for the astounding price of $699 American. A close second is the SNK Neo-Geo (Which, to be fair, was basically an arcade machine gutted into a plastic case) which sold for $649 American in 1990.