Hm, just got a PSP, asked this very same question. I'll give a thumbs up to that Nuri Joytron Crystal case, though. My copy & pasted review from Amazon:

There isn't much choice at the moment for PSP Slim owners looking for a sturdy case; most of the accessories built for the older PSP just do not fit well with the slightly tinier Slim, and a lot of the slim cases leave much aesthetics and protection to be desried. Given the scarce market, I was happy to give Nuri's "crystal system case" a shot.

First thing I thought when I opened the cardboard shipping box was the slick packaging, which, along with the handwritten note thanking me for buying a Nuri product, provided great customer service from the get-go. Inside the black box lay an instruction booklet and a four pieces of plastic: the large front cover, and three separate pieces for the rear (plus a limited-time little plastic stand). The middle piece snaps onto the Slim's new foldout UMD tray, and the front cover snaps with the left and right rear covers to completely enclose your PSP.

Nuri did a good job making the case conform to the curves of the PSP; the case is undoubtedly slim, and the clear plastic allows your underlying PSP designs peer though. The plastic itself is hard, but not meant to withhold tremendous amounts of force. All of the PSP's numerous ports and buttons are available, a nice feature that prevents you from wearing out the small plastic snap joints. It makes for a handsome frame around the well-designed PSP.

The downsides? The case does not come with any form of screen protection (but Nuri does sell PSP screen pretectors, separately), and $20 places this case on the high end of protective casings on the market. For the PSP owner willing to spend the money to keep their machine pristine yet attractive, this is the perfect case to get.

again...virtually does not equal....thats like saying the colts almost won the super bowl...either it did or didnt....besides we were talking about 170 million dollars...you failed twice.....and as far as your proof goes...its more like standards of rhetoric in collegate level of BS...opinion does not equal factrobflores370

Heh, I usually stick up for consoles, but honestly...stop trying and just admit that there exist great games on the PC and they also sell well, although not to the extent of console sales for the most part even taking into consideration the steep price drops for older PC games.

That said, like someone mentioned earlier, you can't play technology. Technological advancement is great, but it usually comes at the expense of actual gaming design and fun. SMG isn't the best looking, but it's certainly is a ton of fun; Crysis, w/o its pretty graphics engine, is a pretty standard run-of-the-mill FPS, in the same way Far Cry or Doom 3 was...

soccer games http://www.gamespot.com/games.html?platform=5&category=Soccer&type=games&mode=top&sort=views&sortdir=asc

baseball games

http://www.gamespot.com/games.html?platform=5&category=Baseball&type=games&mode=top&sort=views&sortdir=asc

basketball games

http://www.gamespot.com/games.html?platform=5&category=Basketball&type=games&mode=top&sort=views&sortdir=asc

american football games

http://www.gamespot.com/games.html?platform=5&category=Football&type=games&mode=top&sort=views&sortdir=asc

golf games

http://www.gamespot.com/games.html?platform=5&category=Golf&type=games&mode=top&sort=views&sortdir=asc

hockey games

http://www.gamespot.com/games.html?platform=5&category=Hockey&type=games&mode=top&sort=views&sortdir=asc

tennis/hunting/boxing/fishing games

http://www.gamespot.com/games.html?platform=5&category=Hockey&type=games&mode=top&sort=views&sortdir=asc

theres a few more out there, some of those are ports, but most of them are multi plataform games, not to mention that pc has mods for games such as PES, you might think consoles are better then pc for sports game, but you cant say it lacks games

Mizarus

Sure I can; on the PC all you really get are EA's multiplatformers, and more and more they're console ports with minimal features compared to their console counterparts as they sense the monopoly they hold in the PC market, not to mention that the past few years they've focused much more heavily on consoles, where they make their money, so much that even PC ports are being shamefully neglected (see Madden 08 port of a PS2 game).

I will admit that the PC is good for sports sim games, as number crunching and deep statistical analyses plus online connectivity makes it the natural platform, but it's a very niche subgenre. You can argue that back in the glory PS1/early PS2 days PC's competed well with consoles in sports games, but that's no longer the case.

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[QUOTE="Sir-Marwin105"]They are system sellers, whether one chooses to believe it or not.fuzzysquash

They will sell systems, but will they sell enough to make a diffrence?

Yes.

I think your other thread rebuked this thread some three+ months ago.

[QUOTE="Deihmos"]PC does not cut it when it comes to sports, fighting and some other games. It's just more fun to play them on a console and they are cheap.
Vandalvideo

Reeeeally? Care to name all these sports games on the PC? For the most part there are shoddy, last-gen console ports for the PC courtesy of EA and non-existent games from 2kSports. The only sports games I can think of are baseball sims and the PES serie, but that's like claiming consoles have "plenty of RTS's".

The majority of you are telling me it allows the freedom of creativeity to flow. Thats great. How is it different from any other level editor out there in the last 10 years though?Cali3350

That's like saying how Halo or Crysis is different from any other shooter for the past x years or how SMG is different from any other platformer of past.

The difference is in execution.

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You know, theres a reason Pixar movies are so popular on college campuses, When you really grow up, you dont care how things look, you enjoy them for what they are :|

farrell2k

College campuses are FILLED with adolescents, and some adults who are fortunate enough to still be mostly shielded from reality. How many grown adults riddled with real-life issues do you think you'd find in a theatre watching disney/pixar movies WITHOUT their prepubescent baggage in tow? I'll give you a hint: not many, and those who do are probably mentally unstable in some way.

Wow, what a great way to stereotype anybody who enjoys artistically-rich and multi-layered jokes and stories presented by most Pixar flicks.

If anything those intolerant of "teh kiddie games" are the immature teenagers who look to emulate what they think adults like; i.e., all violence, sex, and gore. Actually being mature means to look deeper and enjoy both the richness of complex themes ("mature content") as well as the beauty of simplicity.

In short, I find it sad that you're not able to enjoy a film or game just because it looks childish.

I might also add that hardware components being compatiable with each other is a rediculous argument.. The only time this problem ever happens is the person doesn't actually read...

sSubZerOo

You just don't hear about it because the market is so segmented and each hardware manufacturer has its own support forums and network. With so many pieces of hardware incompatibilities definitely arise but do so on such a small scale that it never raises an uproar the way a 360 RROD does.

For example, I've had these issues happen to me in the past two years:

- K8T890 chipset not compatible with X2 dual core chips; I got the motherboard in the summer of 2005 and wanted to upgrade to an socket 939 X2 processor in 2006, only to find it simply just did not support the chip and I had to dig pretty deep to even find an article on it.

- nVidia 7900GT's and GTX's artifacting heavily in games due to overheating; this was one of the few well-known instances where enough users made the news a "big deal". Incidentally the 7900 series still artifacts in Vista, with a "fix" being o/c'ing the card to non-stock speeds, and with every nVidia driver release (beta and official) it's becoming more and more clear that they no longer care about the 7 series.

- Mouse lagging in an action RPG called Titan Quest; mouse accel issues with Bioshock; other random issues with individual games which range from minor annoyances to game-breaking bugs.

My roommate also just found out digital audio out is not really supported in Vista with its rewritten audio stack.

So yes, there are a ton of compatibility issues with PC's in general - anytime you have so many configurations and not-quite-standard standards holding the components together, things will break, albeit on a smaller scale than a standardized design breaking (e.g., RROD).

I think you've just lowered your expectations. Developers can and have make long games that are entertaining from start to finish but they realize they can get away with much less now. I would personally prefer to have a game that focuses on length and entertainment versus graphical achievement.iunderstand

Yea, but realistically games like that do not sell in today's market, where Photoshopped screenshots and videos dissected countless times on forums are the norm. If you don't bring decent graphical firepower, people are just not going to care; would Bioshock do as well as it did if it wasn't for the fancy DX9/10 shading and distinctive art style?