Nintendo's Press Conference

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Its not 70% if you count handhelds...

Oh, and they have the resources and a big name. But handhelds are DIFFERENT... you say you account for that, but it just doesn't look like you are giving that fact enough credit.

First you suggest that we count handhelds, now you're trying to say that they're a totally different market. Pick one, damnit!

I really don't understand your messed up logic that suggests that Sony's popularity in the console industry won't translate into the handheld industry even if their PSP is at the right price with a decent battery life. You are really deluding yourself if you truly believe that.

In the handheld market, idiot! HANDHELD MARKET. Like how the pathetically weak Game Boy got crushed by the more powerful Lynx, TurboGrafx-Portable (I REALLY wish I remembered the thing's real name... ), Lynx, NeoGeo Pocket, NeoGeo Pocket Color, WonderSwan, Game.Com, etc, handily, right?

Didn't think so.

As I said, other things matter a LOT in this market and you are just overestimating Sony's ability to avoid them.

None of those other handhelds stood a chance against the Gameboy because they were either from unpopular companies, had terrible battery lives, or both, dumbass! You're the same kind of idiotic fanboy that didn't think the PSX could take over the market, and then thought that the Gamecube would place Nintendo in the lead again. You are being very foolish and very naive, but what else can I say? You'll just have to wait and see how wrong you are when the PSP launches. I'll be here rubbing this thread into your face when it launches with great success.

Yes, of course. Your point to the topic, then?

You were referring to the Dreamcast when you said that "graphics don't matter", but you fail to realize that this is Sony we're talking about, not Sega. Graphics do matter when you have close competition.

But the GBA is still relatively recent and has a very, very good lineup of released and upcoming games. Sure, PSP has better graphcs, and that'll draw some people... but the GBA will do very well by sheer momentum alone for quite some time... and of course eventually Nintendo will release a better Game Boy. No, I'm not too worried that the PSP will get over half the market. Far too many question marks to even begin to say that.

For the last time, the PSP will not be competiting with the GameBoy, just as the X-Box 2 will not be competing with the Gamecube! Nintendo will probably have their new handheld out sometime around or after Sony releases the PSP, and that is what it is going to be competing with. Nintendo is scared about this, which is why they practically announced a new handheld last week. They know that the GBA will not be able to compete with the PSP, so they're making a new one! Get this through your thick skull!

But B-T has just one place to do each kind of switch in each level... you have to go out of your way to go there, then do one or two tasks then go back. Irritating, especially when compared to DK where you would just switch when you've done everything you can for a character in a level -- something that takes a long time -- or you get bored as that character...

And to me that is far, far less annoying.

You don't switch characters often in BT, while in Dk64 you have to do it every two friggin' minutes.