Or view it on a handheld. It’s been specifically tailored for such mediums now, though the beauty of that single attribute, media="handheld". Or print, I really don’t care. I just know my site’s accessibility just took a momentous leap into the highest of rankings.
Though, perhaps, not to the Sony Playstation Portable’s Netfront browser, which will actually be the subject of this post, along with its inherent parent element, the PSP. (Developers, see what I did right there?)
Anyway, I’m pretty much pissed at the state the PSP is in at the moment, with the downgrading and homebrew scene being more active than usual, after the discovery of the GTA: Liberty City Stories exploit that still lingers in firmwares recent. I’m almost appalled by Sony’s hypocrisy, their apparent harsh stand on homebrew being complemented by their pathetic attempts to stem its growth. In fact, I’m seriously considering purchasing a copy of GTA for this very purpose, though the prices for a suitable copy (the unpatched version) kind of range in the extravagant to the are-you-fucking-kidding-me range, the fault of greedy Singaporean capitalists who somehow think charging 70 bucks (about 35 USD) is justified for a game that’s about as old as my mom.
OK, maybe not as old, but you know what I mean.
Back on track. So anyway, if you didn’t know, my own PSP is of a certain shade of ceramic white, and unfortunately, it’s one of the newer ones, meaning the dreaded TA-082 motherboard. In other words, it’s not conducive to being downgraded. Until now, that is.
However, while I am an avid supporter of homebrew development and anything that has to do with open-source, I am not supporting a culture of piracy. While I do look upon Sony’s proprietary UMD format with great distaste, I feel the evils of piracy do have bigger fists.
I am, however, still an avid supporter of common sense, and Sony deciding to brand their product, which can be held in a single hand as a device meant for screen purposes, is not, unfortunately, common sense. Don’t believe me? Try viewing this site on a PDA and a PSP; you will notice the immediate differences almost immediately, barring the visually-challenged. This is, of course, a mere smite compared to the regular fuckups that Sony regularly manages to perpetuate upon its consumers, but as a web developer, I simply fail to understand why, or how Sony can even imagine that their beloved handheld device does not qualify as a handheld, and must instead receive the same rich content that would normally be siphoned to its older brothers and sisters, which, if I daresay, seem to have about 100 times its processing power.
And that’s not even taking into account that the PSP browser crashes when it runs out of RAM, which is not really in abundance, if you know what I mean.
And when my 3-year old XDA can display this site using the proper CSS stylesheet attributed to it and a much-touted “next-gen” console cannot, it gives you pause to think about the branding behind both products. You are then led to conclude that perhaps, the latter of two companies would be completely fucking retarded.
I love my PSP’s games to death, I love the PSP’s potential media capabilites to death, heck, I even love the PSP’s design. I’m even willing to forgo that second analog stick that was omitted from the design, but really, if Sony really doesn’t want me to be one of their customers, I’m going to have to go right with that presumption.
You may find me scouring the streets for an unpatched, un-price-hiked copy of GTA LCS very soon. Short of bricking my PSP, I’ll probably be chucking away those remote controls around the house and using L1 to watch the latest season of House.
Except that we don’t have House anymore since Season 2 ended. But that’s another issue for posts forthcoming.
This country sure is at the forefront of technology. Just like Sony.
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