Run don’t walk, man.
A new year is a great time for lists and thinking about the future.
- but this one did something more for me.
It made me sit up quite sharply and wish something was so.
That thing is a new Sony handheld.
All fantastic stuff, even if some of the reporting suggests the unit might not make it to market.
I always felt there was a missed opportunity there.
Astro Bot is great, but why didn’t the game star an anthropomorphic PS Vita?
That’s where the real love for Sony is at.
(Just me?)
Let’s go back a bit.
The floating nub was weird too - great weird.
I love the elastic feel of it, like pulling a magnet against its own magnetic attraction.
Then there’s the Vita, of course, which was weird in spirit and in every other way.
Here was a handheld I properly loved.
Which bets to make?
How about all of them, all of them at once?
Weird Sony rides again.
What I love about this stuff, well there’s two things.
For one it ties into Sony’s history of making not just tech but deliriously cool gadgets.
Sony marketed the PSP as the Walkman for the next century, and that didn’t work out.
But there’s a straight line from the Walkman to the PSP anyway.
The Walkman’s orange button!
I could talk about this stuff for hours, but I won’t.
Anyway, point being, making cool stuff that fits in a coat pocket is a proud lineage here.
The other thing I love about this stuff?
It’s that it’s genuinely loveable in the first place.
(Granted, few people found that loveable at the time.)
All of that and a new Metal Gear Acid instalment and I’m set, basically.
And do ping me if you’re selling a Nex 7.
