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Sony will watch you with GPS PSP games
by Brad Nicholson on 07.21.2008 11 comments

Sony will watch you with GPS PSP games screenshot

Sometime next year, Sony will release a GPS device to go along with the PSP. While funny voices and accurate directions has yet to be confirmed, the one thing that MTVMultiplayer found out was that Sony is looking for a few good developers to incorporate the device into games. Sony’s Marketing Manager, John Koller, recently commented on the development of a game that utilizes the upcoming GPS functions.

“There’s been a number of things that our first-party worldwide studios have looked at, and they’ve been trying to look at different options,” Koller stated before confirming that Sony will inevitably lead the charge for creating games with the GPS in mind. Perhaps we’ll see some neat scavenger hunt games out of this, or even some kind of loopy driving simulation. Although, there is something slightly scary about a videogame that knows where you are.

I have this “thing” about self-aware machines. Perhaps it was too much Terminator in my youth, but in my mind, any machine that knows where I am is comparable to Skynet. I don’t care if it can’t launch nukes, command a robot army, or successfully break the time-continuum. I’m telling you, GPS this is the next step before they take over. Pretty soon, we’ll be shooting laser guns in skull-laden playgrounds while a voice-over dictates our society’s woes. You watch.

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Latest comment by Big Z |view all 11 comments
"I’m telling you, GPS this is the next step before they take over." Artificial intelligence will be the death of us....





VashTS's Avatar
VashTS at 07/21/2008 15:52

Ya i bought the GPS add-on, by importing it. I really just can't wait until they release some official software.
SnakeDude4Life's Avatar
SnakeDude4Life at 07/21/2008 15:53

Skynet, Huh?
MrSadistic's Avatar
MrSadistic at 07/21/2008 15:54

As long as Morgan Freeman or Alec Baldwin is the narrator for the woes of our society, then I'm fine with it.
Mxyzptlk's Avatar
Mxyzptlk at 07/21/2008 16:10

So it's like the Tapwave Zodiac, except you actually have a chance in hell of meeting someone else who has one.
mix's Avatar
mix at 07/21/2008 16:55

Maps are like $5, google maps are free and both work like MAGIC!
atheistium's Avatar
atheistium at 07/21/2008 17:29

I don't know if i'd use it.
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The Amazing Shenazin at 07/21/2008 18:15

spoiler: the government uses GPS to track people
jrwolv's Avatar
jrwolv at 07/21/2008 19:34

I'm interested to see how games utilize this. Of course it would be cool just as an app also.
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The-Excel at 07/21/2008 19:41

I always did say that GPS is of little use other than aiding the terrorists in finding you faster. I called it.
NihonTiger90's Avatar
NihonTiger90 at 07/21/2008 20:39

Someone will hack this so they can stalk people. I know it.
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Big Z at 07/22/2008 01:00

"I’m telling you, GPS this is the next step before they take over."

Artificial intelligence will be the death of us.

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