Sony announces PSP's battery life...

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That was NON-SERIOUS. Read it again... I said that the GBA has lots of RPGs and thus it has a larger audience of older gamers than just Nintendo fans!

... they just need to like 2d gaming.

I thought that that comment was pretty clear...

Uh, the SNES had more RPGs than the GBA currently does.

Tad bit? Even for Nintendo you're looking on the blackest side of the bad end...

Oh come on, they've been disappointing us over and over recently with their insanely stupid moves and stances on certain matters. I don't expect them to smarten up over night.

Somewhat, I think he has... but he's still a long-term Nintendo man...

Perhaps he wasn't the best man to replace Yamauchi.

I'm pretty sure that it was longer than you think.

I don't think so.

Well yeah, but the PSP to GBA graphical difference is a bit bigger than GC to PS2...

A bit? They're going to be three generations apart.

What were you saying?

Sure, but at that time any consoles they had already were pretty old and dying... which is different from the situation with the GB... and remember, people view portables as something that should be cheaper. Because so far they have been...

Because the GBA is so cheap it should be even less of a leap to get a new handheld. But I don't think the PSP will sell as well to kids as the GBA, at least not until the price drops.

Oh, and I said that because if you are going to say adults like portable electronic games then you are saying that they'll go to playing consoles instead of games on other things... which isn't as obvious a jump for people to make (quickly, for sure) as you imply.

On the contrary, most adults spend less time at home than kids do, so being able to play games anywhere they want to (like the office, for example) will be a very attractive prospect.

Yeah, I think its a good number of buttons too. Just interesting that after Nintendo gets bashed for leaving 2 buttons off the GBA Sony leaves even more off their system, that's all... though I do think that it doesn't really need more than 8 or so.

This isn't just going to be a portable PSX, and 8 buttons is the perfect amount for a handheld.

You know, the GBA's lack of two buttons hasn't done a single thing to hault it's non-stop porting of old SNES games... All they do is change the control configuration (usually decent results, sometimes pretty sucky) and port it anyway.

The PSP will have two less buttons and one less analog stick than the Dual Shock controller, so that's a greater loss than the GBA's lack of two buttons. However since the PSP will be closer to the DC in terms of power, doing straight ports of PSX titles is going to be a no-no, and I doubt it'll be powerful enough to get PS2 ports. That should help solve the whole non-stop porting "problem" that the GBA has.

BTW you spelled "hault" wrong. :P