PSP out in August??

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Similar? Yeah, but not the same mostly. Oh sure there are ports, but there are many good original titles too... and yes, games from a decade ago were good.

I'm not talking about ports or original titles, I'm talking about how they could pass for SNES games. You said that the PSP will basically be a portable PS2, as if that were a bad thing. The GBA is like a portable SNES. See where I'm going with this?

And remember a decade ago there were portables closer to the power of the major consoles but then too they weren't just straight ports... never have been. The PSP seems to be trying to come close to that and I don't really like the idea that much... if I wanted the game I'd just get the major console version probably! Most people wouldn't get another copy of a game they own just for portability...

Yeah, the Gameboy was totally just as powerful as the SNES.
So... what you're saying is that it's bad that the PSP is so powerful and that Sony should have made it as powerful as say, the PSX in order not to have games looking as good as ones on their current home console? Forgive me for not understanding your inane logic. If all of the games end up being PS2 ports then that would be bad, but that's not what is going to happen. Sure there will be plenty of PS2 ports just like there are tons of SNES ports on the GBA, but there will also be plenty of original content, and the ratio of ports to original content will increase after the PS3 comes out.

Now if you were to say something like "Handheld games should be 2D, and not just SNES-quality 2D like the GBA but more like Baten Kaitos 2D" then I'd agree with you. But calling a handheld too powerful because you've run out of real reasons to complain about it is just plain stupid.