11th August 2003, 10:33 AM
Quote:I'm not sure. I'm sure it'll have battery packs, of course, but as the only option? I'm not convinced that that is a good idea. Why? Because when a battery-pack only thing runs out, charging it is a pain -- you need either a power outlet or several hours to let the thing recharge. Batteries, you just replace... much easier. Sure, it might go recharger-only, but I'm not convinced at all that that'd be a good idea.
Oh, and that's part of another reason why I didn't get an SP -- I'm going to Denmark for 10 days pretty soon and I don't exactly want to have to buy either a European SP AC adaptor or some kind of adaptor... as opposed to batteries...
Also, you must play GBA a LOT to run out of batteries that often. I have still only replaced my GBA's batteries once... of course, I barely play GB most of the time. Its been over a week since I played it last. To use up batteries at the rate you suggest would mean like 20 or 30 hours a week...
GBA batteries last around 17 hours. The SP lasts around 15 hours before you need to recharge the pak, and it doesn't take very long to recharge! You can also play the SP while it's recharging, you know. You'd have to be incredibly lazy not to be able to handle a simple recharge every once in a while. I've saved literally hundreds of dollars on battery costs so far, so it is definitely a good idea.
Oh and you can find a simple European plug adapter for a measly $5 at Radio Shack.
Quote:That's why I've been trying to drop the graphics thing.
Oh, but I very highly doubt that IGN doesn't have other equally good shots of DK64...
Check for yourself then!
Quote:Why, because I don't know the difference between a good game and a bad one? That's not true, of course, but its all you can come up with...
I told you that I will not repeat myself. If you want to see my reasons go up a few posts.
Quote:I said that, and you're focusing on it because you think you can easily win, but you ignore the fact that that is a very small amount of stuff compared to how much I've been talking about just BT and DK64 (ie, the three quarters of my posts you don't adaquately address)...
Could you be a little more coherent next time?
You had to be comparing BK to DK64 since the difference in graphics quality between BT and Dk64 is even greater than the difference in quality between BK and Dk64. So what the hell were you talking about?
Quote:Completely ignorant is wrong, you know it, and you just sound stupider every time you say that.
You really seem to be trying hard to make two lines of one post or so to sound like my whole arguement when I have really barely discussed BK at all... but you refuse to see that. Note that I never said about graphics anything more than "I think DK's are just as good/better", yet on most all other subjects I back up my statements with facts? There's a reason for that -- those are the ones I'd far rather discuss...
Go back and look and its pretty clear I've been trying to avoid the topic of Banjo-Kazooie's graphics for some time now. I know emulation isn't a fair comparison.
As for gameplay, I HAVE played B-K there, and for GAMEPLAY its the same. So I fail to see how that makes me completely unable to comment on it some, at least as far as the platforming and collecting and stuff go... obviously not as much as the other games (and if you look you'd see that), but some.
You are unable to effectively comment on this topic because you know very little about it. You do not have enough experience with all three games, so it's pointless for you to continue arguing.
Quote:That was my point exactly
What? Sony is the most popular company in video game land, so it's probably going to translate into the handheld market.
Quote:Sony ousted Nintendo as the number one console maker because Nintendo made A LOT of very BIG mistakes [losing Square and others, staying with cartridges, among others]. Unless Nintendo really screws up big time, Sony is going to be fighting an uphill battle.
Nintendo fixed most of their mistakes with the Gamecube yet they're still in third place. Nintendo has been releasing one great game after another yet they never sell well for more than a week. Why is that? It's because the mainstream is completely disinterested in Nintendo.
Quote:No comparison whatsoever? What exactly are you comparing the PSP specs against? When Nintendo releases some specs then we'll do a comparison.
Ah, Nintendo hasn't announced a new handheld yet. I was comparing the PSP with the GBA SP. I'm just assuming that the next Nintendo handheld won't be out in 2004 when the PSP launches.
Quote:It's not that big of a pain, just play it during the day and then charge it up at night.
But no, that would mean that he'd be saving money and stuff! And it would be the smart thing to do, so that's completely out of the question!