19th September 2003, 3:08 PM
Quote:I never said it was a perfect comparison.
It's a terrible comparison.
Quote:Sure, but its a pain to replace them...
It's always a pain to get peripherals and spare parts from Nintendo. You can only buy Nintendo's headphone adapter at the official site, did you know that?
Quote:No. Its far more complex than using a console with a longer battery life. More complex, more things to remember, more possibilities of doing something wrong (forget to charge something? Wait several hours...), more pricey... its just a much bigger pain! And even with two battery packs it still won't last as long as a GBA... its just not that simple and it IS a very significant difference. I just don't see how you can keep denying that.
Unless you're an invalid, recharging and changing batteries should not be difficult to do. You seem to have a very low opinion of the general public. Maybe for five-year-olds it would be a pain, but Sony won't be targeting the PSP towards children.
Quote:You sure seem to have been implying that... because the next GB probably won't be too far behind, so for the PSP to take over the industry before the GB has a chance to catch up with equal hardware it'll have to sell amazingly well and crush the GBA in months... which of course is impossible given the PSP's limitations.
I really don't think Nintendo will have their next handheld out on time. They're always late.
And so far the only "limitation" you know of is that you'll have to recharge the batteries more often. Oh no!
Quote:What will limit the PSP from beating the GBA? 1) Price. Think of the market for handheld games! It is noticably younger than the main console market... sure, Sony well might be counting on older gamers going and buying the thing... but I wouldn't be so sure. Older gamers don't seem to be as interested on the whole in portable gaming... that is a MAJOR hurdle for a console aimed straight at older gamers. Because, think about it, the PSP is in so many ways way, way far away from what the younger marke would want. Its very expensive, first... that is a major problem for a big part of the handheld market. It also needs to be recharged (something easy to forget), you have to switch other batteries, etc... all that stuff will hurt with that market!
Sony is clearly betting that the now small older portable gaming console market (as opposed to cellphone/PDA games) will grow dramatically with this system. I am just not so sure that that's a given...
Adults don't like handheld devices? Wow, that's news to me! The reason why Sony has a very good chance of taking over the market is because they will be targeting the system towards adults! As you can see by the PS2 and X-Box's current lead over the Gamecube, adults buy more games than kids do. Children make up less than 50% of the video game market, and that is why Nintendo is #3 and Sony is #1.