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Give us force feedback analogue joysticks on official joypads so that developers can make games compatible with the system? Then, when you're playing Gran Turismo, hitting golf balls, climbing ladders, flying dropships etc. you'd get a better gaming experience
Give us the PS2 Broadband adaptor now so that those of us with broadband can go online today with import games and start kicking butt before our contemporaries in Japan and the USA get too much of a headstart with all the practice they're getting now?
Give us the PS2 Hard Drive so that we can load our own soundtracks onto it and have them playback during our favourite games instead of some really naff track that we can't avoid? (Amazingly, we could do this on the PSX with a bit of disc swapping at the right moment).
Give developers the technology to create more voice activated games so that instead of wading through menus and sub menues to make Soldier A and B go prone and Soldier C to circle around and take up position on the hill above the enemy camp with the minigun, we can just tell them to do it over a voice mic?
Make the PS2 without a mechanical loading disc tray mechanism (the thing is flimsy to say the least) to avoid all the problems associated with that kind of device, and opt instead for the basic lid-opening setup that we had with the PSX?
Make a memory card like the visual memory unit that the Dreamcast had, so we could play minigames like Anaconda from Timesplitters 2 on the train on the way to work?
Make PS2s so that they don't attract dust like some kind of megapowerful dust magnet?
Get together with book publishers and offer e-books on DVD so that when not playing games we could read the likes of Harry Potter and Tom Clancy on our TV screens via the PS2's, flicking through the pages just by tapping a button? Perhaps they could even include some interactive content like images, sounds, ambient music and so on to help set the scene in the particular chapter we're reading?
Make Sony Widescreen TV's with built-in PS2s?
Send me a nice big cheque for all these wonderful ideas that I'm thinking of for them?
Give us the PS2 Broadband adaptor now so that those of us with broadband can go online today with import games and start kicking butt before our contemporaries in Japan and the USA get too much of a headstart with all the practice they're getting now?
Give us the PS2 Hard Drive so that we can load our own soundtracks onto it and have them playback during our favourite games instead of some really naff track that we can't avoid? (Amazingly, we could do this on the PSX with a bit of disc swapping at the right moment).
Give developers the technology to create more voice activated games so that instead of wading through menus and sub menues to make Soldier A and B go prone and Soldier C to circle around and take up position on the hill above the enemy camp with the minigun, we can just tell them to do it over a voice mic?
Make the PS2 without a mechanical loading disc tray mechanism (the thing is flimsy to say the least) to avoid all the problems associated with that kind of device, and opt instead for the basic lid-opening setup that we had with the PSX?
Make a memory card like the visual memory unit that the Dreamcast had, so we could play minigames like Anaconda from Timesplitters 2 on the train on the way to work?
Make PS2s so that they don't attract dust like some kind of megapowerful dust magnet?
Get together with book publishers and offer e-books on DVD so that when not playing games we could read the likes of Harry Potter and Tom Clancy on our TV screens via the PS2's, flicking through the pages just by tapping a button? Perhaps they could even include some interactive content like images, sounds, ambient music and so on to help set the scene in the particular chapter we're reading?
Make Sony Widescreen TV's with built-in PS2s?
Send me a nice big cheque for all these wonderful ideas that I'm thinking of for them?
Give us force feedback analogue joysticks on official joypads so that developers can make games compatible with the system? Then, when you're playing Gran Turismo, hitting golf balls, climbing ladders, flying dropships etc. you'd get a better gaming experience
Give us the PS2 Broadband adaptor now so that those of us with broadband can go online today with import games and start kicking butt before our contemporaries in Japan and the USA get too much of a headstart with all the practice they're getting now?
Give us the PS2 Hard Drive so that we can load our own soundtracks onto it and have them playback during our favourite games instead of some really naff track that we can't avoid? (Amazingly, we could do this on the PSX with a bit of disc swapping at the right moment).
Give developers the technology to create more voice activated games so that instead of wading through menus and sub menues to make Soldier A and B go prone and Soldier C to circle around and take up position on the hill above the enemy camp with the minigun, we can just tell them to do it over a voice mic?
Make the PS2 without a mechanical loading disc tray mechanism (the thing is flimsy to say the least) to avoid all the problems associated with that kind of device, and opt instead for the basic lid-opening setup that we had with the PSX?
Make a memory card like the visual memory unit that the Dreamcast had, so we could play minigames like Anaconda from Timesplitters 2 on the train on the way to work?
Make PS2s so that they don't attract dust like some kind of megapowerful dust magnet?
Get together with book publishers and offer e-books on DVD so that when not playing games we could read the likes of Harry Potter and Tom Clancy on our TV screens via the PS2's, flicking through the pages just by tapping a button? Perhaps they could even include some interactive content like images, sounds, ambient music and so on to help set the scene in the particular chapter we're reading?
Make Sony Widescreen TV's with built-in PS2s?
Send me a nice big cheque for all these wonderful ideas that I'm thinking of for them?
Give us the PS2 Broadband adaptor now so that those of us with broadband can go online today with import games and start kicking butt before our contemporaries in Japan and the USA get too much of a headstart with all the practice they're getting now?
Give us the PS2 Hard Drive so that we can load our own soundtracks onto it and have them playback during our favourite games instead of some really naff track that we can't avoid? (Amazingly, we could do this on the PSX with a bit of disc swapping at the right moment).
Give developers the technology to create more voice activated games so that instead of wading through menus and sub menues to make Soldier A and B go prone and Soldier C to circle around and take up position on the hill above the enemy camp with the minigun, we can just tell them to do it over a voice mic?
Make the PS2 without a mechanical loading disc tray mechanism (the thing is flimsy to say the least) to avoid all the problems associated with that kind of device, and opt instead for the basic lid-opening setup that we had with the PSX?
Make a memory card like the visual memory unit that the Dreamcast had, so we could play minigames like Anaconda from Timesplitters 2 on the train on the way to work?
Make PS2s so that they don't attract dust like some kind of megapowerful dust magnet?
Get together with book publishers and offer e-books on DVD so that when not playing games we could read the likes of Harry Potter and Tom Clancy on our TV screens via the PS2's, flicking through the pages just by tapping a button? Perhaps they could even include some interactive content like images, sounds, ambient music and so on to help set the scene in the particular chapter we're reading?
Make Sony Widescreen TV's with built-in PS2s?
Send me a nice big cheque for all these wonderful ideas that I'm thinking of for them?
FantasyMeister wrote:
> Give us force feedback analogue joysticks on official joypads so that
> developers can make games compatible with the system? Then, when
> you're playing Gran Turismo, hitting golf balls, climbing ladders,
> flying dropships etc. you'd get a better gaming experience
There is a very good force feedback hand held analogue controller which looks like an RC controller, I can't remember the name but it exists. I see what you mean though, if it was official there would be more support.
> Give us the PS2 Broadband adaptor now so that those of us with
> broadband can go online today with import games and start kicking butt
> before our contemporaries in Japan and the USA get too much of a
> headstart with all the practice they're getting now?
Broadband is barely taking off in the UK, it wouldn't be very cost effective for them.
> Give developers the technology to create more voice activated games so
> that instead of wading through menus and sub menues to make Soldier A
> and B go prone and Soldier C to circle around and take up position on
> the hill above the enemy camp with the minigun, we can just tell them
> to do it over a voice mic?
I thought they'd done this actually.
> Make a memory card like the visual memory unit that the Dreamcast had,
> so we could play minigames like Anaconda from Timesplitters 2 on the
> train on the way to work?
Cos VMUs were utterly s**t, gobbled batteries and had no decent games on them anyway (mostly high score viewers). Plus PS2 cards are too slimline.
> Make PS2s so that they don't attract dust like some kind of
> megapowerful dust magnet?
This would be great!
> Get together with book publishers and offer e-books on DVD so that
> when not playing games we could read the likes of Harry Potter and Tom
> Clancy on our TV screens via the PS2's, flicking through the pages
> just by tapping a button? Perhaps they could even include some
> interactive content like images, sounds, ambient music and so on to
> help set the scene in the particular chapter we're reading?
Yikes, I hope you're being ironic. Don't you have the attention span to read a book without having flashing colours and music to distract you?
> Make Sony Widescreen TV's with built-in PS2s?
Terrible maintenance costs :-D
> Give us force feedback analogue joysticks on official joypads so that
> developers can make games compatible with the system? Then, when
> you're playing Gran Turismo, hitting golf balls, climbing ladders,
> flying dropships etc. you'd get a better gaming experience
There is a very good force feedback hand held analogue controller which looks like an RC controller, I can't remember the name but it exists. I see what you mean though, if it was official there would be more support.
> Give us the PS2 Broadband adaptor now so that those of us with
> broadband can go online today with import games and start kicking butt
> before our contemporaries in Japan and the USA get too much of a
> headstart with all the practice they're getting now?
Broadband is barely taking off in the UK, it wouldn't be very cost effective for them.
> Give developers the technology to create more voice activated games so
> that instead of wading through menus and sub menues to make Soldier A
> and B go prone and Soldier C to circle around and take up position on
> the hill above the enemy camp with the minigun, we can just tell them
> to do it over a voice mic?
I thought they'd done this actually.
> Make a memory card like the visual memory unit that the Dreamcast had,
> so we could play minigames like Anaconda from Timesplitters 2 on the
> train on the way to work?
Cos VMUs were utterly s**t, gobbled batteries and had no decent games on them anyway (mostly high score viewers). Plus PS2 cards are too slimline.
> Make PS2s so that they don't attract dust like some kind of
> megapowerful dust magnet?
This would be great!
> Get together with book publishers and offer e-books on DVD so that
> when not playing games we could read the likes of Harry Potter and Tom
> Clancy on our TV screens via the PS2's, flicking through the pages
> just by tapping a button? Perhaps they could even include some
> interactive content like images, sounds, ambient music and so on to
> help set the scene in the particular chapter we're reading?
Yikes, I hope you're being ironic. Don't you have the attention span to read a book without having flashing colours and music to distract you?
> Make Sony Widescreen TV's with built-in PS2s?
Terrible maintenance costs :-D
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>
> Get together with book publishers and offer e-books on DVD so that
> when not playing games we could read the likes of Harry Potter and Tom
> Clancy on our TV screens via the PS2's, flicking through the pages
> just by tapping a button? Perhaps they could even include some
> interactive content like images, sounds, ambient music and so on to
> help set the scene in the particular chapter we're reading?
>
That kind of thing is out already!!!!!
It's actually called "Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone" on DVD, you can get it from SR even.
And guess what, instead of you having to read about what's happening in the story, someone has gone to the trouble of showing you, on screen, what's happening, cool!!
And, so you don't have to spend days reading it, the full book is done in about 1 and half hours.
How's that for progress, books that tell themselfs, you don't have to read anything and all on 1 cd sized disc, quite cheap aswell.
Welcome to the future people!!!!
>
> Get together with book publishers and offer e-books on DVD so that
> when not playing games we could read the likes of Harry Potter and Tom
> Clancy on our TV screens via the PS2's, flicking through the pages
> just by tapping a button? Perhaps they could even include some
> interactive content like images, sounds, ambient music and so on to
> help set the scene in the particular chapter we're reading?
>
That kind of thing is out already!!!!!
It's actually called "Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone" on DVD, you can get it from SR even.
And guess what, instead of you having to read about what's happening in the story, someone has gone to the trouble of showing you, on screen, what's happening, cool!!
And, so you don't have to spend days reading it, the full book is done in about 1 and half hours.
How's that for progress, books that tell themselfs, you don't have to read anything and all on 1 cd sized disc, quite cheap aswell.
Welcome to the future people!!!!
Thats what movies are for, books should remain as books or we'll all go stupid.
FantasyMeister wrote:
> Make Sony Widescreen TV's with built-in PS2s?
I was thinking about this the other day. They have TV's with integrated DVD players in them, and it would save a lot of space. Just have the controller ports in the front of the TV, maybe memory cards could be stored out of view on the side of the TV. Would also be cool if there were little spaces in the TV to store Memory cards, DVD remotes, that you could close off, with an itsy little door. Would be very cool.
> Make Sony Widescreen TV's with built-in PS2s?
I was thinking about this the other day. They have TV's with integrated DVD players in them, and it would save a lot of space. Just have the controller ports in the front of the TV, maybe memory cards could be stored out of view on the side of the TV. Would also be cool if there were little spaces in the TV to store Memory cards, DVD remotes, that you could close off, with an itsy little door. Would be very cool.