31st March 2005, 3:42 PM
I imagine that a lot of that is due to the relatively high price of the PSP.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.
31st March 2005, 3:42 PM
I imagine that a lot of that is due to the relatively high price of the PSP.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.
31st March 2005, 3:54 PM
Just wait a bit, we'll see.
Okay so... what is Cartman like Shake from ATHF?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
31st March 2005, 3:56 PM
Yes, it definitely seems like the price is the biggest sticking point for a lot of people... it's getting lots of great press, but not sales to match the level of excitement in the media.
31st March 2005, 4:59 PM
Game specialty stores are completely sold out, but places like Best Buy aren't. Looks like Sony's complete lack of marketing was a bad idea. Once word gets around and people see commercials for stuff like Wipeout, I expect to see the mainstream outlets selling out.
31st March 2005, 10:33 PM
People looking at it in mainstream outlets are more likely to be turned off by the price, I think...
1st April 2005, 9:06 AM
Dark Jaguar Wrote:Just wait a bit, we'll see. At times, he's a stupid asshole, just like Shake, while at other times, he's an evil genius. Basically, he'll go to any length to have what he wants, whether it means concocting an ingenius plan (like feeding a kid his parents to get revenge on him) or attempting something really stupid (like jumping off the roof of a house in an attempt to fly).
1st April 2005, 2:22 PM
Didn't he also use stem cells to grow a new pizza place instead of giving them to Kenny, thus killing him once again?
Sometimes you get the scorpion.
1st April 2005, 7:16 PM
Yes. That was the legendary news-making episode in which Kenny died "for good." He came back after about a year/season though.
7th April 2005, 2:23 PM
PSP sales.
http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/04/07/...21853.html Quote:PSP sells 600,000 in first week 500,000+ in the first two days, and 600,000 at the end of week one. That means 100,000 at most in the next five days, as they say...
7th April 2005, 2:24 PM
Hmm, great is good, but AMAZING would be great.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
7th April 2005, 2:31 PM
I wish Nintendo, or someone, would release some DS sales figures for NA.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.
7th April 2005, 2:44 PM
We've seen some numbers, I think...
7th April 2005, 3:17 PM
Number for like the first week/month, but not much more than that.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.
22nd April 2005, 9:28 PM
http://consoul.blogspot.com/2005/04/unlo...uture.html
Huh... the PSP was deliberately underclocked (final clock speed: 220mhz; earlier preliminary speed: 330mhz), almost certainly in order to save battery life...
22nd April 2005, 11:15 PM
Yeah, one of the programmers at Rockstar Leeds (their handheld division) told me about that. So once a better battery comes out, PSP games will look even better. Neat, huh?
22nd April 2005, 11:28 PM
I don't know, you think they'll manage to make a new battery that's 50% better than the current one?
22nd April 2005, 11:32 PM
Eventually, yes. Definitely.
22nd April 2005, 11:47 PM
If you say so, but who knows... battery technology doesn't increase at a very fast rate at all.
22nd April 2005, 11:58 PM
Lithium ion battery technology has been getting better and better each year. You have no idea what you're talking about.
Surprising, huh?
23rd April 2005, 12:14 AM
By a tiny degree. Not much. I've read a bit about batteries, and know that battery tech is advancing VERY slowly... by the time it's that much better, I'd expect the PSP will be a dead system, unless some major innovation in batteries comes along in the next couple of years.
23rd April 2005, 12:16 AM
Again, you know nothing about the advances made in the past few years. Sony knows what they are doing, and you will see better batteries soon. There's a reason why the full potential of the system hasn't been tapped yet! Otherwise they would have just toned down the specs and saved money!
Silly, naive little man.
23rd April 2005, 12:27 AM
I know plenty, OB1. Your excuse for anyone who disagrees with you is either "you are stupid" or "you are ignorant", but it's almost never true...
23rd April 2005, 12:32 AM
Great rebuttal.
23rd April 2005, 12:43 AM
Remember that article I posted a few weeks back about that new battery that maybe in some circumstances increases battery life for some things under some conditions? Yeah, battery life increases go like that... I've definitely read, multiple times, about how compared to computers batteries are improving at a very slow rate, and about how portable electronics are becoming increasingly hobbled by the comparitively slow progress of batteries...
23rd April 2005, 12:44 AM
That's because most portable electronics use disposable batteries, genius. Lithium Ion batteries are improving all of the time, with higher power ones getting smaller and smaller on a fairly regular basis.
23rd April 2005, 12:49 AM
As I said, by degrees. Not by massive leaps like is happening with electronics.
23rd April 2005, 12:51 AM
Nothing compares to the technical leaps in electronics. Nothing.
23rd April 2005, 12:58 AM
And that's why the speed is throttled in the PSP. :)
23rd April 2005, 6:43 AM
So, if you have a better battery the PSP's processor will run faster?
Sometimes you get the scorpion.
23rd April 2005, 10:14 AM
No. When a better battery is released, developers will be able to take full advantage of the system. If Sony thought that no better battery would be released within a few years of the system's lifespan then they wouldn't have made it that powerful. Simple as that.
23rd April 2005, 11:41 AM
Yeah, either that or they just found it easier to leave in the processor they had than changing it. :)
23rd April 2005, 12:09 PM
Yeah that's right, they just "left it in" even though it costs so much.
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