Some great-looking PSP screens

[lazyfatbum]

You don't know that. For all you know they might go down with as much utter indifference and probable delusion that they seemed to suffer on the home market. Not that they're completely down in that market, yet. But they DO have a fight on their hands.

Nintendo (worldwide) has more earnings per year than sony's computer entertainment (worldwide) or microsoft's home console market (again worldwide). But it doesn't come from gamecube, it comes from their portable market... which is the entire market. Nintendo didnt think they had a fight with:

Gamegear
Turbografix 16
Game.com
Wonderswan
Neogeo pocket/color
Nomad

So i doubt they're shaking in their boots with the psp. It is after all, to nintendo, just 'another portable trying to gain space on the market'.

all of those systems were swallowed whole by nintendo. In japan, in europe and the states. They never had a chance in hell really, even when the wonderswan announced that it had exclusive rights to portable final fantasy games, nintendo still ate it alive. sony's portable is going in to a market that has never been shared by any other company for more than 2 years before being forced to retire because nintendo released a new game for a portable and drove hardware and software sales up 70% in a week before it drops back down to the same rate as ps2's being sold in japan, many times going over that number.

"...not down in the market, yet"

it doesn't take a marketing genius to see that a system that jumps between 3rd and 2nd in the world surviving soley on first party software while completely owning an entire corner of the industry and while capatalizing on high profit margins each year to put themselves on a cash flow that no other company of their type can understand (much less implement) is the least likely of the three major brand name consoles to bow out of the industry. Microsoft is only now just starting to see any real profit margin with their home console devision and sony's really only seeing their top shelf profit line in japan. But nintendo continues come out smelling like roses in every part of the world and have the financial statements to show it.

There was just a cool article about it at ign... or cube europe. I forget. One of those places, go see if its still there.