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

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You are biased towards yourself... or rather you think your opinions once stated are permanantly right... this is a great case of that. But we'll see what happens.

HA! I love it when you project. In case you forgot, when it was announced that the PSP was going to be around $200, and I WAS proven right and you were proven VERY wrong, you refused to admit that! Did you forget that already?? EVERYONE could see that you were wrong, as the facts were right in front of our faces. PSP = $200 = I was right = you're a dumb fuck. Even then you WOULD NOT admit that you were wrong. It's amazing how hypocritical one idiot can be. It really is.

And I'm not talking about every argument, I'm talking about this specific one. Here you are defending Sony stronger than even some developers are... it's pretty aburd how many excuses you have for their failings... yes, because of its power and the Sony Marketing Division it'll sell well, but I am very far from convinced that it'll be the force that beats Nintendo in handhelds. Even if we restrict it to just DS vs PSP (a significant restriction because the GBA will be #1 for quite some time) I really don't know which way it'll go... I'd like to think Nintendo can definitely win though.

I have to be the objective voice of reason in this forum since everybody here seems be a certain degree of blind fanboy. I'm looking at this objectively, and only a biased fanboy would ever say anything different. I know that, because I used to be like that. Several years ago I realized how stupid it is to have gaming biases and take sides for no reason (actually, your reason is much like mine used to be, which is that you only own nintendo consoles so you HAVE to hate the competition), so I stopped being a stupid Nintendo fanboy.

I understand it well enough, the guys at Gamestop tested RR and they concluded that the battery life was terrible, clocking in at less the 3 hours and as low as 90 minutes and on top of that if you want to play over the internet or wireless LAN you're going to get an EVEN LOWER battery life. Now, you can talk about Namco not trying hard enough or whatever, but what this comes down to is if you want to play the PSP to it's full potential [i.e. games with amazing graphics, sound, a.i., and wireless multiplayer] you're going to have to put up with a low battery life, there's just no way around that.

Hey guess what, it turns out that Gamespot was wrong (as usual). They did NOT test Ridge Racer at full battery life. Dozens of reports are coming in from different web sites (notice how gamespot was the only one to say 90 minutes, out of EVERYONE) and individual gamers, and most of them (who actually recharged the PSP as soon as they got it--remember that the battery life is not at FULL as soon as you get a system) say that RR gets about five hours of battery life at MAX volume and screen brightness. So gamespot's 90 minutes is not at full recharge. That makes Sony's estimate correct, and the PSP's battery life only a couple of hours worse than the DS'.

Now, even if that 90 minute thing were correct, it would be the fault of Namco's programmers. Saying that it's just because the game has nice graphics and sound, blah blah blah while not looking at the facts of very ABF of you, GR. I expect more from you, man. Different programmers under different conditions will get different performances out of hardware. Imagine if the programmers who did Morrowind at the time that they did Morrowind (they've since become much better) made a PSP game. It would look like crap AND suck the batteries like nothing else. And that's because they weren't very efficient programmers. With this case--if it were actually true--it would be a case of Namco's programmers not having enough time to efficiently use the hardware. But even then they got around five hours of battery life for RR.

Now the true test will be GT3, which looks amazing. I'm betting right now that it'll get at least four hours of battery life.