Sony announces PSP's battery life...

[A Black Falcon]

So my example which was a comparison of two consoles from the two same video game makers we're talking about is not closer to the GBA vs. PSP situation than your example, which was comparing the PS2 to the Dreamcast, a system that never had a chance to survive at all?

Yup, you got me there!

You've got to go to other publisher comparisons because nothing between Nintendo and Sony is even remotely close to this... not anywhere near the same ballpark...

That's completely false. Even Nintendo admits that they target the Gameboy towards kids. That's also why there isn't a single M-rated title available for any of the Gameboys (or there might be one M-rated game). The PSX became super-popular because Sony got people who would never touch a video game into gaming. They targeted non-gamers and adults, which is why they're #1 right now. They will try to do the same thing with the PSP, and much like the console industry before the PSX arrived, the handheld gaming industry is dominated by Nintendo and targeted mainly towards kids.

I'd also like to note that the reason why the GBA SP looks less like a "toy" and their ads are more mature is because Nintendo is trying to get more adults into handheld gaming.

Sorry, but there are a few M-rated GB games... not many, sure, but there definitely are some. Not many, true... but some. But because of the technology in the GB systems some games that are M on other consoles are T on the GB...

And yes, Nintendo is also trying to get more adults into handheld gaming... I don't know if its working. It might... but I'd just think adults wouldn't be as likely to use handheld systems (in a handheld setting, of course, anyone could use any system at home...). Oh, I'm sure plenty would... but is the untapped message as large as the one the PSX opened? I doubt it.

It's not just PDAs and cellphones, doofus, it's all portable electronics. Portable electronics are even more popular than home-only ones in many cases, and you have nothing but blind, stupid anti-logic to support your claim that adults and casual gamers wouldn't like to play their videogames on the go. You make no sense whatsoever.

Games on PDAs and cellphones are clearly fairly popular, but those things have more useful uses as well... a console doesn't, and requires a bigger time commitment. It really is a different focus, despite Sony trying to make it a multitask system...

Yes, and they're ridiculously expensive. I'd prefer if Nintendo kept the next Gameboy a gaming-only machine, but if they do want to compete with the PSP then they'll have to offer everything that the PSP does. One of the reasons why the GC suffered was because it couldn't play DVDs like the PS2 and X-Box could.

I'd far rather spend that $50 on a game, not on another DVD player... I liked the fact that Nintendo kept out the extras...