PSP price: 19,800 YEN! ($185.48); battery life: 4-6 hours

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The PSP won't be $185 here though, since that's a very uneven number in the retail world. That's certainly less than I ever thought they would sell it for and considering what they said about it thinking it would be $300 wasn't unreasonable.

It will most likely be $200 in the US, but not a penny more. That's still just $50 more than the DS!

As for the battery life it's still going to be a factor, don't think that it won't be. It's not going to be as big as it would have if the battery life was about 2-3, though.

If the PSP were $300 and the battery life was 2-3 hours, then it might be an issue. But at $200 and 4-6 hours of battery life? Only a delusional Nintendo fanboy would think that would be anything more than a minor deterrence for some people. And I don't think that you're a delusional Nintendo fanboy, Johnny.

On a related note, I took a closer look at the graphics in some of the PSP games [Game Informer, sucky magazine but I got it free with my Gamestop discount card] and from what I can see that graphics ARE NOT PS2 quality. I would say they are, at best, sub-par DC quality graphics. They are better than the DS's graphics, but not as much as I had previously thought.

Actually if you read any of the recent developer comments, the PSP is actually more powerful than the PS2. It's just that most of the games shown so far look worse than PS2-quality because they are rushed, just like the early DS games don't look N64-quality, even though it's supposedly more powerful than the N64.

If you want to see some PSP games that do look PS2-good, check out Gran Turismo 4 and that Konami shooter. It took Sony three years to push the PS2 hard enough to get those graphics in GT4, and it will be out on the PS2 at around launch looking exactly the same (according to the developer).

Then how about I just go leave and play Baldur's Gate?


... I'm only really not saying those specific words because you're making such a big deal out of it you know...

Then I will never let this die, and will forever remind you of how wrong you were.