Sony unveils useless feature – use a full-size PS3 controller on your PSP
You might have to humour me a little here – I’m not a console gamer. I love PC gaming, but I’m not a fan of trying to control first person shooters with a joypad. Yes, even Goldeneye on the N64. I know, I know, I’m a heathen.
But even thinking through the mind of a console gamer, I completely fail to see the point of using a joypad to control the PSP – which is essentially just a joypad with a screen on anyway.
Worse still, you need to own a PS3 to make the whole system work in the first place. You connect your PSP to your PS3, then the controller to the PS3, and voila – you get two analogue sticks instead of just one, and a bit of miscellaneous rumbling from time to time.
In fact, it seems such a waste of time that I can’t help but think I’ve misunderstood something here. Have I got it completely wrong? Educate or vindicate me in the comments.
Sony UK (via Pocket Gamer)
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3 comments
You’re right, it is largely pointless and the reasons are correct, but I’m not sure you understand the significance of a second analogue stick…
The PSP only has one and four face buttons. Typically console FPSes use the left stick as a wads style setup, and the right as the mouse aiming. I *think* in PSP fpses, the straing of aiming falls on the four face buttons. In other words it’s a nightmare.
Assuming this allows you to use the analogue stick for aiming, it’s an improvement – though why you’d want to see PSP graphics blown up on a massive TV screen is beyond me… and frankly if you want to play an FPS on a Playstation pad so badly, you’re better off buying one for the actual console.
Thanks for the info – it still sounds utterly mad, though…
The PSP is widely thought to have rubbish controls compared to using the Dualshock. Evidently Sony won’t admit that so they’ve come up with this instead.
‘Hoorah’.
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