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Sony To Release PSP Handheld Console In 2004
JayBonci writes "According to News.com, in a news conference before this year's E3, Sony announced its plans to release a new gaming handheld called PSP, slated for release late next year. Presumably, this would be to compete against Nintendo's Gameboy Advance, a clear winner in the handhelds department for years now. The games come on a new media format, half the size of a CD or DVD, holding 1.8 gigs. Other Gameboy competitors such as the Neo-Geo Pocket Color have suffered from small game libraries and the inability to get over the GBC/GBA's entrenched marketshare. Despite all of this, Sony isn't SNK, and obviously has a lot of muscle to push its way to where it wants to be. It will be an interesting fight."
THE FUCKERS!
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Our studies here at Nintendo, as well as many independent ones have shown gamers don't want the proverbial kitchen sink when it comes to handheld games. The inclusion of an optical drive, the load times, and the associated mechanical and skip problems that might occur in a handheld device, in my opinion creates more problems than it solves. The stated use of a 90 nano process, which I believe is a first for a consumer electronics device, further will increase cost as well.
In the handheld market, people like to play simple games which can well fit within the confines of solid state memory, puzzles, sports games, and racing to pass the time on trains, planes, or while waiting around in a room, rather than long games such as RPGs, shooters, or the like loaded with cinematics and other elements.
Maybe if they introduced PS1 or even PS2 compatibility, at the cost of a slightly larger form factor for the drives, they might have a winner, but to position this as a comepetitor with GBA with this feature set is misguided marketing at best.
-- Samir Gupta, Ph. D. Head, New Technology Research Group, Nintendo Co. Ltd., Kyoto, Japan.
SO I bought a PS2 when it came out- now I get a disc read error... crap! thanks sony for not recalling your shitty product...
Now these guys want to muscle there way into the handheld market! wonderful- the last thing I want is to be playing my PSP and see "disc read error".... or be on a train or in a car or something, and have the thing skip... and goof up- most likely everything but the music will have to be loaded into memory to prevent skipping, which means either an overpriced product, or an underpowered one...
I just don't know if I can trust a company that 'muscles' its way into business.
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Created a pussy to their design.
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By using red velvet, he lined it within.
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He touched it and blessed it and said it could pee.
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Kind of reaching there huh guys? Rockstar told you to go piss up a rope didn't they? Lets face it, with games like GTA and Metal Gear as exclusive titles you guys didn't stand a chance. Zelda isn't _that_ good.
This thing comes out Q4 of 2004! That's a year and a half from now! (how many years is that behind the GBA?) PS2 is a signifigantly more powerfull machine than the DC was, and it allready had a strong foothold when XBOX came around--personally, I wish Sony would just go away--I've never owned a Sony produt that didn't have QC issues.
There is alot in the game market, agreed--but the only way this product will work for Sony is if they throw their weight around with the software manufs and force them to develop for PSP to get on PS2/3....
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