10th June 2004, 6:35 PM
Well that's fine.
Anyway, I gotta say the whole battery life thing is a bit of an issue for me. Car adapters could solve it sure, but that goes for the Game Gear as well, and that apparently wasn't enough. I just like having something that will last an entire trip, or at least most of it, both inside and outside the vehicle. Eh, my stance is still as it was, I'll be waiting until I find out what exclusives it has before I'm interested, but the battery life sure seems very low. Also, if it's super expensive (and honestly squishing that quality screen, a PS2, and a battery into that kind of space has GOT to raise the costs to something amazing, it's just the reality of it), then that's another problem. I mean, Sony has taken losses before, but if they sold it for $300 out of the gate, that's still likely an over $100 loss on their part, LIKELY anyway. They may have found some cheaper methods of construction, but I'm still willing to bet it'll be sold for $300 at launch and still be a loss for Sony per system sale. Eh, yeah it'll likely be a while before systems can actually be released as portables from the start...
Anyway, I gotta say the whole battery life thing is a bit of an issue for me. Car adapters could solve it sure, but that goes for the Game Gear as well, and that apparently wasn't enough. I just like having something that will last an entire trip, or at least most of it, both inside and outside the vehicle. Eh, my stance is still as it was, I'll be waiting until I find out what exclusives it has before I'm interested, but the battery life sure seems very low. Also, if it's super expensive (and honestly squishing that quality screen, a PS2, and a battery into that kind of space has GOT to raise the costs to something amazing, it's just the reality of it), then that's another problem. I mean, Sony has taken losses before, but if they sold it for $300 out of the gate, that's still likely an over $100 loss on their part, LIKELY anyway. They may have found some cheaper methods of construction, but I'm still willing to bet it'll be sold for $300 at launch and still be a loss for Sony per system sale. Eh, yeah it'll likely be a while before systems can actually be released as portables from the start...
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)