15th March 2005, 1:19 AM
I've only skimmed the whole thing... is that really what they've been doing, bashing the system for having too much power? Yeah, that is silly... In this case, I think that ABF has gotten so used to arguing with OB1 that he actually is doing, for the very first time, the things that OB1 has always accused him of. It's like some weird psychology stuff only lazy could explain to us.
The PSP has a lot of potential right now. I've said from the very beginning that I had my doubts namely because I didn't think that a very expensive handheld could succeed. When the DS was later announced, pretty quickly really, I said that if Nintendo's DS did well then I could easily see the PSP at least competing with them, though I didn't think they would dominate Nintendo in the least. Still, my own thoughts were that people wouldn't want to buy something that expensive. It wasn'treally a Nintendo vs Sony thing in my mind, but rather a cheap but weak vs expensive but powerful thing. When the DS actually sold by huge amounts, then I realized that peopel were willing to pay more for a more powerful system, and so I realized the PSP could do well, assuming it wasn't TOO expensive. I haven't read much about it, so I don't know the price, but so long as it isn't too much more than the price of a PS2, and the battery life is decent, then it'll do pretty well. Oh yes, I forgot that I said some things about the battery life, namely that I didn't think that it would be very long at all. Turned out it isn't very long, and predictably, Nintendo is attacking it. No matter, at the time I also thought that poor battery life might impact sales of the system if people today care about it as much as people cared about battery life with the Game Gear. OB1 pointed out that hey, this has rechargeble batteries. True enough, though my main fear was in them dying between opportunities to charge them back up. It's still something I don't like about it, but oh well, sales tell me that Japan, a country that cares more about battery life than us, doesn't care enough that they won't buy it.
Anyway, summery, the DS is doing VERY well, and the PSP, while not doing as well as the DS, is holding it's own very well indeed, as I thought might happen if people actually wanted to dish out that money. All in all, hopefully the PSP will sell well enough that Nintendo has some real competition that forces them to do more than release what are literally ports of old NES games, just as an example.
The PSP has a lot of potential right now. I've said from the very beginning that I had my doubts namely because I didn't think that a very expensive handheld could succeed. When the DS was later announced, pretty quickly really, I said that if Nintendo's DS did well then I could easily see the PSP at least competing with them, though I didn't think they would dominate Nintendo in the least. Still, my own thoughts were that people wouldn't want to buy something that expensive. It wasn'treally a Nintendo vs Sony thing in my mind, but rather a cheap but weak vs expensive but powerful thing. When the DS actually sold by huge amounts, then I realized that peopel were willing to pay more for a more powerful system, and so I realized the PSP could do well, assuming it wasn't TOO expensive. I haven't read much about it, so I don't know the price, but so long as it isn't too much more than the price of a PS2, and the battery life is decent, then it'll do pretty well. Oh yes, I forgot that I said some things about the battery life, namely that I didn't think that it would be very long at all. Turned out it isn't very long, and predictably, Nintendo is attacking it. No matter, at the time I also thought that poor battery life might impact sales of the system if people today care about it as much as people cared about battery life with the Game Gear. OB1 pointed out that hey, this has rechargeble batteries. True enough, though my main fear was in them dying between opportunities to charge them back up. It's still something I don't like about it, but oh well, sales tell me that Japan, a country that cares more about battery life than us, doesn't care enough that they won't buy it.
Anyway, summery, the DS is doing VERY well, and the PSP, while not doing as well as the DS, is holding it's own very well indeed, as I thought might happen if people actually wanted to dish out that money. All in all, hopefully the PSP will sell well enough that Nintendo has some real competition that forces them to do more than release what are literally ports of old NES games, just as an example.
"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)