Sony gives PSP a pretty lick of paint

Posted by Rob Beschizza, January 26, 2009 6:03 AM | permalink

Delightful, but that is the incorrect shade of green. Green must be decisive: think British Racing Green or Lime Green. What the hell is that? Sage? Asparagus?

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#1 posted by Alan , January 26, 2009 7:25 AM

Looks like kelly green to me.

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#2 posted by Brettspiel , January 26, 2009 7:33 AM

Hard to tell on this monitor, but it looks a bit blue-ish for Kelly Green. Definitely not asparagus, too dark for sage. A shade off emerald to my eyes.

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#3 posted by sheshe , January 26, 2009 7:56 AM

but they got the yellow right. nobody ever gets yellow right.. and yeah.. i'd say the green is emerald as well..

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#4 posted by Rob Beschizza

, January 26, 2009 8:18 AM

Yeah, the yellow is perfect, a lovely rich sunshine gold. The red is almost as bad as the green, fading to the pink -- one can only hope these images are badly color managed.

The blue is nice, with one caveat: it might well be cornflower.

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#5 posted by claud9999 , January 26, 2009 9:06 AM

Oh well now I must buy one, or not. (Had one, sold it years ago.)

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#6 posted by danilo , January 26, 2009 9:13 AM

Clearly, this is what was missing, Sony. PSP will now be relevant!

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#7 posted by Anonymous , January 26, 2009 9:37 AM

SAGE

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#8 posted by Anonymous , January 26, 2009 10:53 AM

Good pretty colours on crap hardware.. or maybe it's not the hardware so much as the corporate controlling attitude -- overcontrol the devs and eliminate the homebrew and poof! suddenly you have an enemic number and release rate of games and apps...

Remember, hardware sells on the software available. Surprisingly enough, even if you build it, they will not come along if you act like that!

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#9 posted by Tenn , January 26, 2009 11:07 AM

Nthing the perfect yellow. If I were in the market for a PSP, that yellow would perch merrily in my hands, bringing the light of the gaming world unto me...

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#10 posted by Agies , January 26, 2009 1:36 PM

too little too late.

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#11 posted by ViolettVerq , January 26, 2009 1:38 PM

Pwetty, pwetty emerald. If I'd buy Sony products and played games on a portable I'd buy it for the color.

The red is also after my fancy.

But then again I'm a girl...

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#12 posted by Purly

, January 27, 2009 7:20 AM

It's Girl Scouts green.