The E3 show floor opens in 2 days. The PixelatedCrew is packed and ready to go. We’ll be arriving in our hotel room, which has no refrigerator (wtf), Monday afternoon. Tuesday, when we go in, we want to make sure you get your question answered. We know you can’t make it to E3 and that is why we are going for you! Our site has been created for our readers like you! So, tell us in the comments below, what do you want asked, and who should we go to with your question?
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O.K. I have 6 questions I want asked.
1. Ask Sony weather they will be fixing or at least working on the issue with Router/Gateway Manufactures with Remote Play where your PS3 automatically turns thinking a Remote Play connection has been made?
2. Ask any and all 3rd party publishers how difficult and time consuming it is to add trophies to games. Suggest that maybe they should make a program that generates Trophies so all they have to do is input the right info into the right boxes add the trophie art and hit a button and it creates a trophie file or patch. For example…
Trophie Generator
Name of Trophie: Easy As Pie
Action Performed to unlock Trophie: Trophie unlock code
Trophie Art: Pie Picture
Trophie Unlock Sound: Oven Ding
Trophie Reward: Pie & Plate for Home
etc…etc…etc…
I think that if some of the developers added trophies to some of the PS3 games that still don’t have them it would re-invigerate the market and people would go back and buy some of those games.
3. Ask all Developers also in the same manner how difficult & time consuming it is too add Force Feedback into their older games via patch.
4. Ask Sony weather it will ever be possible to charge the PS3 controllers thru the PS3’s USB ports while in standby mode without the requirement of having to buy an add-on
5. Ask SCEA why they didn’t feel the need to bring the games Afrika a.k.a. Hakuna Matata & Aquanauts Holiday to the U.S. when they already had an English Language option available? Missed Opportunities?
6. Ask Sony if they would ever consider allowing people to send in there old PSP’s in so they could be upgraded for a nominal fee? For example I would send my PSP 1000 in and they would take it apart and put in everything in the PSP 3000, so they would add more memory,video out port, mic,Better Screen,etc…etc…etc…
See the thing is there is to many different SKU’s some can do things others can’t and that was the one thing that was so great about owning a Console over a PC. Every console could do the same thing and it also wasn’t confusing for developers. All I’m saying is we need some uniformity.
I guess that enough for now and I may not get all my questions answered but some answers are better than none.
I can answer some of those questions ahead of time:
2. It’s not necessarily difficult to add in Trophies after the games release, especially if it’s a cross platform port from a 360 game. It is however time consuming because adding in new code to the whole game brings with it problems with breaking existing code. This means that any additions like that require a lot of testing and therefore expense. Once the game is shipped they’re unlikely to have the infrastructure still there for testing and it’s better from their perspective to leave it alone and not break anything.
3. Force feedback for games that didn’t originally support it would be a bit of a mission. They’d have to recode events in the game to initiate the feedback. This brings with it similar problems with that of the Trophy injection. Therefore it’s a cost to benefit ratio which unfortunately normally ends up with the cost being a lot higher than it’s worth. Economics rules everything in a business.
4. It’s not possible with the current hardware. To allow power to go the USB ports the system has to be on or in a higher low power state than it currently suspends to. It’s a similar problem faced by PCs. In a low power state to provide power to the USB ports requires a higher state of suspend which in turn reduces the energy savings that suspend permits. It is possible to wire the USB ports up differently but you still require the PSU to be on. This would mean that the PSU fans need running and be powered up consuming energy. The PS3 already consumes comparitively a lot of electricity in it’s suspended state (you can thank those capacitive buttons on the front and the instant on from bluetooth among other things for that). So the short of it has to be, it’s likely not possible with the current hardware (possibly with the PS3 slim?). You can however charge them through any USB port that’s powered including those on a PC or Mac if you’re looking for an alternative way to charge them without buying an AC to USB power adapter.
6. Highly unlikely as it would cost Sony more than it would be worth. The cost of retrofitting or fitting your old equipment into a new shell would be much more than just buying a new one. It would be a labour intensive task that would require skilled workers which wouldn’t come cheap in the scale of manufacturing terms. The other problem is that the system boards would always change when you’ve got additions made to the system. This means that the bulk of the old PSP that you’d send in wouldn’t be easily compatible with the new hardware. It would be a relatively environmentally friendly way of doing things and a nice idea, but certainly not feasible in practice. It doesn’t mean they couldn’t do a straight up exchange, but it’s Sony and they’re highly unlikely to do anything like that. It just wouldn’t make economical sense for them to do so.
Hope that helps, for the other questions you’ll have to wait for our E3 coverage to start this afternoon (GMT) or morning if you’re in the US.