Sony announces PSP's battery life...

[A Black Falcon]

Mine is closer.

Absolutely not...

Yeah but they're more expensive than Nintendo's official stuff.

True, but they're easy to get.

The reason why it's mostly younger gamers now is because that's who Nintendo targets the GBA towards. Duh.

Nintendo also targets older gamers some (all the SNES ports, strategy and RPG games...)... just not mainstream older gamers like Sony will. And that works very well for them... better than the 'aim younger' strategy does for main consoles, so clearly there is more of a market for this stuff in younger agegroups...

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.

You think they'll lap this thing up and make it a big hit? Huh... I see no reason to think that. Game consoles just can't be directly compared to PDAs and cellphones!

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.

Nintendo shouldn't include any of that stuff. Well, wireless multiplayer like some handhelds have would be great, but it doesn't need any of that other stuff...

And remember, there are TV and MP3 (third party, but still...) add-ons for the GBA...