lost in games

Ok, i was reading EGM’s review of Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness for the PSP yesterday and one of their comments was that one of the good things about the game is that is very convenient when you are on the move. Whether you are in a dungeon or you are just upgrading/levelling up your characters you can just go to PSP’s standby mode and get off your bus or the tube. Very convenient for short spells of gaming.

And it hit me. It is!! I remember how often i used it for Jeanne D’Arc, Lumines and for so many other games.

If consoles at home had this feature we wouldn’t be annoyed so much with whatever saving system the game had. Playing Metroid Prime 3 and after half hour of playing you don’t actually get to a saving point and you want to go out? No problem, just put the console on standby mode. Then when you come back you can pick up the game where you left off. You would not even have to worry about your battery dying on you.

The 360 currently has a sort of sleep mode but only for downloading stuff or when charging the controllers. They added this in one of their dashboard updates. I can not see why they can’t do it for when you are in a game. It will allow us to play longer games, games with few saving points or infrequent checkpoints.

Come on Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo. I demand the standby mode feature on my home consoles.

NOW!