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hey guys so welcome to this week's episode of d3 live so today I'm gonna be talking about a pretty big topic and it's going to be the Nintendo 3ds version of the so many PSP - so obviously the current PSP and the current Diaz are both tremendous sales I mean the DS has been C I mean it's just ridiculous how many they sold and it absolutely looks like it's gonna continue into the next generation of handheld consoles so today we're gonna go ahead and take a look at what each one tends to offer obviously neither are out quite yet but we do have quite a bit of information on the 3ds and do have some on the PSP to some way give you guys some of my thoughts my opinions on all of what we can expect us to be playing here in the next couple of years so the first one is definitely going to be the Nintendo 3ds I know this was actually go ahead and they've already talked about it here a couple months back at e3 so we didn't know quite a bit about it it's gonna it is going to go ahead and share quite a bit similar to the normal D's at what its gonna have a folding clamshell design as well as two cameras as well as two screens - but the cool thing about the 3ds is it brings a lot of new features so it also in addition to the standard two cameras it adds a third camera on the outside so on the outside you actually can go ahead and hold it up and take a 3d picture that's gonna be a pretty - interesting feature and in addition also does have as you might have guessed a 3d screen so basically the Nintendo 3ds is gonna be a very powerful console as well so what you expected to do is actually play glasses free through glasses-free 3d it's that's fun to say um so basically and something any other size or your pocket obviously you're just gonna be handheld all you have to open it up and on the top screen not on the bottom but on the tops where you'll be able to play full 3d games and they should look pretty and pretty impressive too close to gamecube graphics from always seems so far so the 3d s though does have quite a few other features I should have a lot more of a software focus and what I mean by that is if you ever played you know the DS Lite or maybe even the DSi which was an improvement um as you can see it was really designed you know back in the Gameboy era where you know there was no software you put the game in it boots up it goes straight to it now the death was kind of a bridge but I expect to see the 3ds you know improve on this you know get a better sort of app store of course the DSi it has do you know the DSi shop literally look to see a lot more software and you really see them improve upon it because really game systems these days can't afford to just be game systems I mean you look at me about the iPhone the iPod touch they are great game systems you guess what they play music you know on the internet make calls all kinds of other stuff so we really do expect to see the 3ds improve on this and really move into you know the kinds of doing a lot of different things obviously including picture hopefully video camera all those kind of stuff so that's about it for the 3ds it does look like a really solid console and while we actually don't have an exact release date it could be really some people have been saying you know here in the next couple months I'm but the least we know it will be available before March of next year so within the next four or five months we will have the 3ds so that's going to be pretty cool now moving on we're gonna have the PSP 2 which is kinda be a little bit harder to nail down because it's not official in any sort of way unlike the 3ds so of course the PSP 2 is going to be the successor to the original PSP and I will say the PSP 2 neck isn't final that's just what most people call it I'm gonna go ahead just stick with that Nepenthe - like I said we don't really know a whole lot about it but take a look at you know what Nintendo's been doing and you know what the what Apple's been doing with the iPhone and iPod Touch well I didn't kind of get a pretty good picture of what Sony's looking to do so there have been a lot of talk about dual analog sticks and I think that's going to be really really huge anybody who's ever played in all PSP can definitely attest to the fact that it's kind of a little bit difficult to really play a lot of games using just a very small not very comfortable little joystick so I really look forward to them having a lot better controls and they might even and proved upon that with actually having a touchscreen in addition to all of the standard buttons so does it kind of get an idea of how this would work you can go ahead take a look at the current PSP go a lot of people have suggested that I might having the same sort of slider design where you can glad with the clothes you wouldn't really see any controls you just have this screen and obviously if it's a touchscreen you go ahead do some simple things but then when you're ready to go ahead and play game on just slide out the controls and then you go ahead and you might have a combo with some touch controls some physical controllers might do all kind of stuff like that so that's definitely something I would look forward to in the PSP to now moving on I really think that the PSP 2 is going to be a very very powerful little console so when the first PSP came out it was really really impressive it had very very similar graphics to the PlayStation 2 of the time and I actually do kind of expect that this will be kind of the same way in the PSP - I wouldn't be surprised in obviously I don't expect it to have PlayStation 3 graphics right out of the box but I do expect to be a big big jump now for the PSP to mean the PSP was a very powerful console and I could pick to see the PSP - after them having four or five years to you know prepare for it to get a big bump in graphics to go ahead and be able to play a lot really you know in depth sort of games now as far as 3d I'm not so sure obviously sony has been pushing 3d very hard on the console side with the PlayStation 3 so I wouldn't be surprised as I do try to put it on the PSB - however with obviously that's the other main focus of Nintendo with the 3ds I'm not so sure if I'm wrong go ahead you go with that so that's kind of a toss up they very well could have 3d but if they don't I can definitely see why so that's about it for the PSP - like I said we don't have a whole off concrete information and it probably is still going to be at least a year out before we actually does come out so you know like I said it's kind of hard to go ahead and nail down but from what we do know it does seem like a pretty solid console okay so for the second segment of d3 live I'll be taking live questions as always every episode of d3 live is filmed in front of blog TV even have quite a few people in here right now so go ahead and take some questions and just kind of hang out what is the best mobile game system well I think if you're gonna buy something today it kind of depends you know I really I'm a big fan of the iPhone the iPod touch you know if they're great systems as far as you know they just don't do games I mean there are a lot going on there obviously I don't quite keep good games on the iPhone the iPod Touch but in addition to that they you know they make phone calls if you have an iPhone I'm getting the Internet you know let's the music do all sorts of other apps so if you're looking to me if you're not really into maybe like something that you only can get on the PSP I maybe God of War SOCOM or if you're not a ninja like Mario or Pokemon on the DS the iPhone and iPod touch I've been plumbing really depending on if you need to phone or not it's a pretty good way to go however if you're getting it straight from games it really just kind of depends on you know do you like a lot of the Nintendo franchises would you like a lot of the more hardcore stuff on the PSP so really it's hard to just say well one's better than all of them because they all do have the respective strengths and weaknesses why do they call the PSP 2 and not the PSP 4000 well I think the main reasons I'm not going to go ahead call the PSP 4000 is that if you take a look at the 1000 to 2000 or 3000 they were all just you know minor upgrades you know maybe they change little bit here they add a little bit here the next key is gonna be a totally different they're gonna hopefully start with you know clean slate you know she's gonna be a big leap forward that I'm gonna have you know you of DS hope not there they're gonna go ahead so it's gonna be a major step forward and I just added the 1000s 3s that just was kind of to mark like an incremental upgrade whereas the next PSP should be you know just a giant neo step forward you know what do I think about those 23d raids on devices like with 3ds uh I actually that's a good question I had not been able to well most people haven't but I had actually been able to test out the 3d a semester and never actually seen Y in person so it's kind of hard to say now I have heard a lot of people have said that it's pretty it's a pretty solid screen however it's really simple to kind of get you know depth perception all messed up for example a lot of the time when like they had a lot of 3d movies such as avatar a lot of people kind of got a little disoriented with the 3d I think that might very well be a little bit of a problem for the 3ds however the major thing that you need to keep in mind is that there's a 3d a deserves a dial that goes it turns up and down the effect of the 3d so maybe like if you don't like the 3d you can go ahead turn all the way off you can slide them up and down so I think that I mean the 3d is gonna be an additional feature but obviously pretty much any of the games should work without the 3d for if for whatever reason you know it doesn't look good to you you know some people you know get a little sick by the river so I think it shouldn't be that big of a deal well the next iPod Touch be 3d uh you know that's a good question I definitely look to see Apple start to move into the 3d space because as of right now we haven't seen them really go for anything 3d as far as maybe the next iPod touch I think it's possible um I'm not really sure I think it would be a good idea but Apple is kind of they kind of work on their own schedules you know so maybe like build up new technologies when they think that hey it's a good idea but with with big things like the 3d what Apple really likes to do is sit back let everyone else you know flood the market with 3d stuff or indeed whatever the technology is and then however it pans out so people really love 3d that will go for it and if people don't or indeed a little bit later wants a lot of the problems everything get worked out then Apple will do it so I think it's possible that we'll see it and a next generation iPod Touch I'm just not sure if we'll say it next year or maybe in a couple more years once the technology is mature smart how many game consoles do I have that's a good question you know I don't even know I have quite a few here I'd have to I have to probably pause and count them up actually but that's quite a few mostly getting boys you hate the PSP too will slide open and except um DS uh no I don't now I'm not so sure I doubt that the PSP too will you know be all digital download only like the PSP go I think so many at least I really do I think so many learn their lesson from that I think son of realizes hey wait you know that's not a good idea but also on the other hand I don't I think the UMD format really is gotten outdated I mean it's an optical disc drive and then something well of course it was designed really well back in the day for today there's really no need to have you know a spinning disc and all the parts and everything that entails so I doubt do not think that they will have a UMD you know maybe just to slide it into the PSP too that would be surprised if there's some sort of add-on that you know maybe you just goodbye you know an add-on and then that way you could use your um DS but I love I do not think that the PSP 2 will support them console gaming versus PSP gaming or PC gaming that's a pretty decent question um the thing is I think both of them have their strengths and weaknesses and I personally I really do like PC gaming for quite a few different reasons you know I like a lot of games such as you know Starcraft or really mate with PC I mean I couldn't imagine playing something like that on the console indeed first-person shooters are the same way you know a mouse and keyboard is such a such a great control setup especially for me on the other hand though console gaming is really really nice for a lot of reasons for example you know when you buy a PC game unless you have me a really really nice rate a lot of time you don't necessarily know how well it will work and all this cut stuff whereas when you buy a game for mega the xbox360 you put it in its gonna work you know that so I think they both do have their advantages and of course the console on the console side you do have a lot of you know franchises here you know specific to that whereas the PC really doesn't have a whole lot I mean does have a few things so she's like you know Sims which actually is a Sims is the main think of PC Starcraft except etc but I think that I mean most gamers are gonna have a console and a PC so it really depends on what kind of games left to play and that was pretty much a non-answer but that's just kind of my opinion will kiss p21 Android now that is a good question I've never been a lot of talks and I want to get into this I'll probably just save it for another video there have been one talks about a supposed PSP phone that would actually run Android now as far as if that's you know that's feasible I do think it is you know whether the PSP 2 itself not now without a phone will actually run Android honestly I had no idea I think it would be a pretty interesting idea I love Android as an operating system however whether we'll actually see it or not I'm not really sure I think it would be very very cool as far as you know being able to download all sorts of you know acin or anything you know instant access to all that stuff I think it'd be a great idea about just not so sure so he's gonna go ahead and go through with it so any other guys that's it for this d3 lives if you enjoyed absolutely feel free to subscribe I do these every Saturday at roughly three o'clock Eastern Time on blogtv Sequoia and feel free to subscribe in case the videos afterward or even when watch all live obviously on blogtv so anyway guys thanks for watching