Sony announces PSP's battery life...

[A Black Falcon]

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.

So when we stop disagreeing as much you lose track of the arguement? ... :)

I didn't respond to what?

To the second paragraph of the post mentioned in that comment. The first one, about mature GB games, you did, but not the second one about adults in handheld gaming... at least not there. You did eventually, though, as the fact that we kept arguing about the subject makes clear... :)

About what?

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

The points I made in that series of posts, now that you read them and understand what I was saying!

Oh, and its pretty clear that your mind was elsewhere.

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.

Many PC games are still just for the 'hardcore', but some are mainstream... see Myst and The Sims... those two games did a lot to mainstream gaming. Well, SimCity before The Sims, but The Sims sold better...

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.

True, it'll shake up Nintendo for sure... less porting, more new games. Not that the GBA doesn't have a massive library of unique games, of course... but there are a lot of ports. Yes, that will probably change for the better... but I just don't see handheld titles getting the development and marketing dollars of major-console ones. Sorry.