PSP: Out Tomorrow (in Japan). But does anyone care?

[A Black Falcon]

Yeah, 90 mins to 3 hours... now THAT is what I expected from this thing from the beginning. Well, actually, it's a bit below that... I was thinking 2-4 hours... but hey, if all you want to do is play Mah-Jong with your headphones and the brightness dimmed then you might get six hours. :D

In short, OB1, your belief in Sony's marketing hype has kind of backfired, hasn't it...

Yes, the PSP can get better battery life than I expected in some circumstances. But for most people, and for most games, it's right about where I thought it would be: in the realm of other handhelds whose technology was great but was beyond decent power capacities of the time.

See: Lynx, TurboExpress, Nomad, and Game Gear. Great technically, only to be brought down by not as good a selection of games and bad battery life... honestly, the GG might be the best comparison, given that it didn't totally fail like those others and the PSP is probably not going to be a total flop...