The batteries of Sony’s newly announced “NGP” cannot be changed, purportedly in an effort to stymy pirates who previously used the battery to hack the original PSP models.
The unit is as stylishly designed as it is sealed tight:
One method of hacking the copy protection on the original PSP to enable piracy involved the use of specially modified batteries (the batteries contain additional circuitry as well as the actual battery) – the sealed battery of the NGP is suspected to be part of an effort to make such hardware hacks more difficult.
The combination of a”4-5 hour” battery life and the inability to change the batteries seems unlikely to be well received – and if the 3DS is any guide, a recharge time of some hours can be expected, making the device rather less portable than might be hoped.
So if it’s not rechargeable then what is it? AA?
So… Rather than just *not* using the setup that makes a Pandora battery even possible (hey guys, why not make the battery just… provide power and that’s it?), they lock the battery up so it cannot be replaced? WTF…
It’s like they built a car that has a key to said car taped to the windshield. And now, rather than just not putting the key in such a stupid place, they are epoxying it to the windshield so nobody can get it out. Fucking idiots…
With a battery life as pathetic as what they are claiming, people are going to want to be able to have higher capacity batteries, or be able to have spares with them. Yet another example of fucking over your customers in a futile attempt to thwart piracy.
Well, at least you can play it plugged in a socket when the battery of psp2 gets old…
oh, wait… Will the sony sell a extra external battery device for PSP2?
Something like this below….
(PSP2)>——-<[BATTERY]
Don’t tell PSP2 NGP is Disposable after it used up its battery life then its on the trash and buy a new one. If that’s the case it must have a CHEAP PRICE!
Gotta be fun when you have to replace them.