Microsoft Future Vision Montage

This is hot and in my opinion a realistic vision of the future.

<br/><a href="http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=a517b260-bb6b-48b9-87ac-8e2743a28ec5" target="_new" title="Future Vision Montage">Video: Future Vision Montage</a>

Getting OpenID in the browser

A good read, regarding OpenID authentication through web browsers and a proposal to do this through Gears (since through Gears, Google has already created two web standards, Geolocation and Offline Apps).

Another DS redesign?

Yea, yea, yea, I know this is sort of old news to people, and it's just a rumor... but c'mon now how many Nintendo rumors have been proven incorrect now a days, and plus this one just tickles me (yea, I said it)... but yea this one says that the redesign is already done and that it is thinner, has no GBA port, on board storage (I hope there's an SD card slot somewhere there) and larger screens...

Now I'd frown on the loss of the GBA port, being that there's already a few DS games that use the slot for add on's or some features, but I guess this is it's time to go, and time to place the whole Game Boy game collection on the Virtual Console (in the form of an emulated Super Game Boy and the Game Boy Player) and hopefully we can see a portable version of the Virtual Console because of the internal memory.

I guess nows a good time for me to not upgrade from my Phat DS to a DS Lite. (All I need is a firmware update to get Mii characters on my DS)

(Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2007/11/15/another-nintendo-ds-redesign-coming-says-analyst/)

What Sony needs for the PSP and PS3

Ok, here's my list of features I'd love to see in future PSP and PS3 firmware updates

1) Playstation Network for PSP: Now it's sad how Sony has the ability to place two consoles on the same online network and hesitates to do so. I wanna play Burnout against PS3 and PSP owners, I wanna fight in Tekken against someone behind a tv.
They have this now. ^_^

2) Friends & Messaging for PSP: Now I seriously don't know what the hell a Go!Messenger is, it sounds nice, but once again Sony makes a dumb move and decides that PSPs should only communicate with PSPs. Do they seriously think that having the ability to chat with PS3 owners is something PSP owners don't want?

3) Playstation Store for PSP: Now I know this is possible on the PSP, mainly because I've downloaded game demos with the web browser, and yes it takes long but it should take less times without something rendering HTML, CSS, Javascript and Flash. Not that much less, but less. Also I wanna see some original downloadable content for the PSP not just PS1 games.
They have this now. ^_^

4) Playstation 2 games online: Now by this I don't mean the PS2 games that had online support before playable online via the PS3, I mean all games in a co-operative mode, something like Remote Play but with a PS2 game and through video streaming to a PS3 and/or PSP. Something where I can go online and send messages to a bunch of friends to play against them in Guilty Gear Isuka, where one of them is playing on a PSP and through an extra menu, I can set who's console controls what controller.

5) Homebrew Development: Here's one that I find Sony to be fools for not making ages ago on the PSP or PS3. Easily they could just make a section on your console that plays home made games from your hard drive or memory stick, and limit developers on what they can do by the same thing Sony used on the Other OS feature in the PS3, hypervisors, you know to stop developers from making viruses or games that could compete with existing titles power wise. I just want to see Google Talk for PSP/PS3 or see IR Shell on a non-custom firmware PSP.

Thats all I have on my list, post a feature you'd like to see in the comments.