Sony announces PSP's battery life...

[OB1]

*sigh*

What do you not understand? We started an arguement then you totally lost the subject... as this makes clear. Its really a quite odd arguement, with you misunderstanding or not understanding almost every single thing I said...

First, smilies often mean 'not serious'... or not wholly serious.

You're lucky I'm willing to waste my time doing this...

Scrolling down and copying each quote, one at a time, takes quite a while.

My original comment that brought this on...

No, I just lost track of everything because of the non-stop quoting and after we stopped disagreeing on most things. It's tough to keep track of these long-winded debates.

You responded to the first paragraph of this onto the line about mature GB games, but didn't respond to the second part which is relevant here.


Then later (in a response to GR I believe) you started this line with this comment.

Start--

I didn't respond to what?

No comment?

About what?

Keep in mind that I'm at work so my mind is elsewhere.

But PC games got more popular too during that timespan and I'd hardly credit Sony for that... I agree they had good marketing, but it was mostly exploiting a growing market, not creating that market themselves.

And I agree that the PSP will sell well initially... but to a market that will endanger the GBA anytime soon? I doubt it.

The PC market is seperate from the console market. Console software sales are several times higher than PC game sales, and that is because consoles are more mainstream than PC gaming is.

Saying that Sony shouldn't get credit for bringing videogames to the mainstream is like saying that the guy who invented the toaster shouldn't have gotten credit because it would have been invented eventually.

You underestimate the power of the low budgets and short deadlines that the handheld industry always works in!

Ah, but with Sony entering the market things will have to change. Right now developers are lazy because they have nothing to compete with! Usually third parties try to follow the competition, and in the Gameboy's case that would be Nintendo since there's no other handheld to compete with. And since Nintendo has been very lazy and greedy with GBA development, the third parties have followed. However now that Sony is going to be here soon Nintendo has to get their act together and take their handheld software development as serious as they take their GC development. According to the rumor section in this month's EGM (which is usually pretty accurate), Sony is putting as many resources into PSP development as they do with their home consoles.