I'd gloat like OB1 did, but it wouldn't be nice... oh wait...

[A Black Falcon]

I am taking the most unbiased view on this subject out of anyone here, while you remind me of the glory days of the Gaystation and Nintendo Sucks sites. I haven't seen this sort of blind bias in a long time. This is classic fanboy syndrome here, all of the symptoms are the same. You only own Nintendo consoles, so competition is a threat to you. Acknowledging realistic strengths and weaknesses of those competing consoles would make you realize that you are missing out on a lot, and simply being an ignorant fanboy and thinking that what you cannot have is terrible is a lot easier to take. I know exactly h[QUOTE]ow it is, I've been there. The Gameboy is your favorite system, and the PSP poses a huge threat to it. So rather than looking at the situation with no biases (like I am doing; calling me a Sony fanboy shows just how sad your argument has become), you grasp for straws and blow even the most baseless points out of proportion in order to help make yourself feel better, to lessen the threat of the PSP. It's extremely sad to see.

Most unbiased. You seriously think that. Pathetic. You are so obviously partizan towards Sony on this that it's ridiculous... and you try to call your position "nonpartizan"??? Seriously, do you see anyone else here defending Sony's battery life? Have I seen any articles on major gaming websites that say that they are satisfied with what Sony is saying about the battery life? Have I even seen final numbers for this, for the price, etc... I think you get my point. Your position, that we can't even begin to speculate because we know nothing, is idiotic. You just don't want to talk about it because the things we know are generally negative for Sony.

Oh, and it's not like I'm talking about Nintendo here. I'm just talking about Sony. Not the PSP vs the DS, or the PSP vs the GBA... and you're also wrong if you think I have some kind of irrational hatred for Sony. Sure I like Nintendo a lot more but that isn't the point here, what we know about the PSP is the point... and it's not a picture like you are trying to portray it as.

Oh yeah and the line about me only owning Nintendo consoles is incredibly stupid. Or have you forgotten that I like PC games? :) Sure, it's not a "console", but it's a system which I play games on, and a whole lot of them, so it makes a mockery of that whole line of arguement of yours.

On that same line, if I was to rate platforms that I have it'd probably go like this. PC > N64 > Gamecube. it's tough to directly compare those to the GB/GBC/GBA though... but I'd probably say that the GB is between the N64 and Cube. I don't know... tough to decide...

Calling you a Sony fanboy... sure on other issues you don't act that way but I was talking about this one in specific, not anything else. And here you sure seem to really, really want the PSP to not only win but roll over the competition, and for it to have super-great stats. This thing with you and battery life is a perfect example of that you know...

Oh, on that note, you have a great talent for retreating on an issue without acting like you conceeded an inch. Recall that in E3 you posted that "hahaha you idiots it'll get 10 hours in games just like the GBA (, and that's awesome)" post? THAT is the post of somone being BALANCED??? Are you crazy? Now you're saying it'll get 6 hours, yet are acting just as arguementative and viscious in your attacks as ever. You retreat while not admitting it... you cut your estimate almost in half while not admitting even the slightest hint that I (or all the website articles I have seen about the issue) were right... amazing...



If I take what you say at face value, it is impossible to estimate battery life. No other electronic device's battery life has even the slightest shred of importance because Sony, the super-great tech developers they are, have used all new technology in the PSP that makes any comparisons in battery life competely irrelevant. All articles discussing battery life that talk about how, given what it does, what the battery life will likely be are also completely irrelevant because those people have absolutely not idea what they are talking about... after all no other technology has any relation whatsoever with the PSP so comparing various things won't get you anywhere at all. We have to wait for Sony's official announcement. And like with the price, and the release date, and the connectivity strategy, and the MP3 player, and the movie player, and how many models of PSP there will be, etc... Sony's recitence in giving out all the details on these things means absolutely nothing. It isn't a sign that they are reluctant to say anything because they know the news won't be well recieved, it's an indication of only that they haven't said anything and nothing more. No conclusions can POSSIBLY be drawn from anything.

Now, you might say 'but Nintendo hasn't said much about some of those things either!' and you'd be right. Nintendo's reluctance to say things annoys us all all the time... but they DID give a battery life estimate, for one thing. And they aren't trying to make it a unified media device, just a game player with some other (relatively minor) functions.

I'm not asking for all the final details. Since the PSP probably won't be out until next year, that's unrealistic. But ANYTHING would be very nice and the lack of them, and the way that Sony dances around the issues so many times (and then says bizarre things like how no one actually plays portable systems outside of their house anyway, a very strong indication of what the battery life is going to be...) makes me, and a very large number of other people, very suspicious. Your attitude towards that suspicion is both very stupid and exactly what I'd expect from you once you latch onto a position.

On that note I bet that if we hadn't been arguing about this before and the issue just came up now, you'd be a lot closer to my perspective here... but you've been locked into "I love Sony" mode on the PSP and can't even begin to back down of course.