19th September 2003, 8:18 PM
Quote:There is no comparison quite like this one, so none of them will be anywhere near perfect...
Mine is closer.
Quote:I meant GBA-SP-only headphones, which I bet some stores carry...
Yeah but they're more expensive than Nintendo's official stuff.
Quote:But do they want handheld gaming consoles? That's a quite different question from asking if they want cell phones or PDAs! I am just not sure at all that that market is there. Eventually? Quite possibly, as gaming grows in strength and popularity even more yes, handhelds will spread more evenly to older groups... but now? Its mostly younger gamers. And the older ones aren't showing signs that this is a big ignored market from any way I can tell...
The reason why it's mostly younger gamers now is because that's who Nintendo targets the GBA towards. Duh.
Quote:Also, who is the PSP for? Its not for children (the majority of the GBA's market) because of price primarially and battery life second (children are more likely to find that battery setup hard to deal with...). Its not for Nintendo fans, or fans of 2d gaming. Is it for 'hardcore' gamers? Probably not -- Sony has never aimed its consoles at hardcore gamers. No, they're aiming at older teens and up, people who are mostly casual gamers and have PS2s... the question is, do those people want a handheld console like the PSP? I'm not sure. Some do. Some will get it because of Sony's hype. But will that be enough? I don't know. I hope not...
Who's it for? The same people that made Sony the king of the home console industry: casual gamers, teens, adults. Portable versions of home devices are usually even more popular than the home ones, since you can take them anywhere you want to. To say that none of this will apply to video games is ridiculous.
Quote:Right, because Sony is a better hardware developer than Nintendo, as we've so clearly seen in the past...
Uh, you should know far better than THAT!
I'm talking about everything else that the PSP will be able to do, i.e. play music, movies, go online, etc. Nintendo will most likely make their next GB a games-only console, which has backfired on them in the past with the N64 and Gamecube. Even if the next Nintendo handheld is just as powerful as the PSP but $100 less, most people are going to see all of the other functions as worth the extra moolah. MP3 players and portable DVD players are pretty damn expensive so it will be a big draw. The only problem I can think of is that Sony's UMD format is not going to be re-recordable, so copying movies or music to them will be a problem. It'll be interesting to see how they solve that, if they do.