Sponsor |  xyzzyplugh | Apr 15, 6:33am | edit, (we can recharge it overnight between visits)
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my friend in hospital, no electric powerpoint, so want a console with good battery life,
i have never owned a console so know nothing much but am thinking, playstation3 that black little handheld one, have i got name right, is there better, what top games are there, does it play dvd movies or mp4 movies, what else can it do (mp3 player?) or is it just a games machine/
or what do you recommend please? |
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|  acunninghan | Apr 15, 8:18am | | I would recommend you the PSP (Play Station Portable) from Sony, there's a lot of games for it and also reproduces Music (MP3, WMA, etc..), movies (UMD disc or saved in a memory stick) and have wireless capability (Internet, Multiplayer Games); the only problem is the battery that will last about 5 hours of continuous gameplay and about 8-10 hours of music or movie reproduction but there's a third party battery that will last twice that or you just can buy another one. |
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Sponsor | | xyzzyplugh | Apr 15, 8:26am | | 2, aha, buy a spare battery to interchange, thanks sounds great, those movies, would be what mp4? ok i'm off to google psp, |
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| | acunninghan | Apr 15, 8:59am | | Movies are in MP4 format (MPEG4) if you download them you can save them in a memory stick or you can buy UMD discs (about 9 to 20 dollars each). |
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Sponsor | | xyzzyplugh | Apr 15, 9:34am | thanks 4 info,
there's a good driving game for it too, tdu,
and a gta (maybe gta IV soon?)
anyways this looks great 4 hospital friend,
sweet. |
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| | acunninghan | Apr 15, 9:52am | | NP, if you're going to buy some games i recommend God of War, MLB08: The Show, FIFA08, both GTA, Metal Gear portable ops, Test Drive, FFVI, Patapon and Silent Hill Origins if you are a fan of the series. |
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Sponsor | | TheMightyBlad | Apr 15, 11:09am | I still would like to try a GP2X sometime. Only thing I'm not too happy about are those penlight batteries.
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|  altfthirteen | Apr 15, 11:55am | | I've heard about them, it looks pretty good and quite well priced I would probably put it to use as a Megadrive console but the batteries are a real put off, last time I had to go hospital I had a a Original Gameboy which needed about 4 AA batteries to run Oo with just Dr Mario and Link's Awakening at least they had a snes there so that wasn't so bad |
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|  |  2379981 | Apr 15, 1:00pm | | What no DS love in this thread? OK, then. PSP sucks. Get him a Nintendo DS. Better battery life, better games. And the novelty of watching a 2-hour movie on a tiny screen wears off quickly. |
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Sponsor | | Thlayli | Apr 15, 1:07pm | | Whatever. I have a DS and a PSP. There are things about both I love. |
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