Whats the typical age of a PSP owner? 15+, 20+? Its very unlikely that any parent would stump up so much money for their little kids to have a portable gaming system.
This is where Nintendo comes up trumps - they are cheaper, have a great range of simpler games, suitable for smaller children (my child is 4 this month, he loves the GBC), and the really, really crutial point, is that battery life on the gameboys is better than the PSP, so you don't have the problem with your son/daughter coming along asking for "more batteries please, daddy".
Well said, although I figure 5 years is more like it. Nintendo has a habit of keeping a product in production for a long time; I wonder if Sony has started planning the PSP2?
In fact, overall, nintendo are still leading the portable gaming market overall, as this is the first viable competitor in any way since the old Lynx and Gamegears (rip).
And of course, the PSP is aimed at a slightly different market to the DS, so there is easily space in the market for both of them. I'd have a PSP for myself, and my son (4yrs old) would probably have a DS or GB Micro.
Even worse than that website, I've actually seen real, live people out in the "normal world" actually performing acts of "sidetalking" without any obvious drug-related assistance.
I was running Win2K on my old Compaq Armada M300 - Celeron 300, 128meg, 6 gig drive. Ultrareliable (until my daughter stood on it).
It was acceptable in performance until I was running all the business apps I needed (about 6 terminal sessions onto our AS/400s, outlook, word, domain management tools). It only ever took a major kick when I started to put tracks onto my NetMD at the same time....
T-mobile in europe supports number porting - no mention of them in the article?
It'd be difficult for one part of the company to try and halt such changes, while other arms of the company are already using such processes.
We've had it for years, its been handy to take my number between networks without problems, but the whole cost of cross network charges is a pain.
You used to know which network someone was on by their prefix, now you haven't got a clue, and its almost worth asking "what network are you on" when you first call someone, just to keep call charges down.
The Nokia 5510 mobile can record from an audio source... doubles up as a usable phone as well. Will be trying to get hold of one as soon as my current contract expires.....
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Whats the typical age of a PSP owner? 15+, 20+? Its very unlikely that any parent would stump up so much money for their little kids to have a portable gaming system.
This is where Nintendo comes up trumps - they are cheaper, have a great range of simpler games, suitable for smaller children (my child is 4 this month, he loves the GBC), and the really, really crutial point, is that battery life on the gameboys is better than the PSP, so you don't have the problem with your son/daughter coming along asking for "more batteries please, daddy".
Well said, although I figure 5 years is more like it. Nintendo has a habit of keeping a product in production for a long time; I wonder if Sony has started planning the PSP2?
In fact, overall, nintendo are still leading the portable gaming market overall, as this is the first viable competitor in any way since the old Lynx and Gamegears (rip).
And of course, the PSP is aimed at a slightly different market to the DS, so there is easily space in the market for both of them. I'd have a PSP for myself, and my son (4yrs old) would probably have a DS or GB Micro.
Even worse than that website, I've actually seen real, live people out in the "normal world" actually performing acts of "sidetalking" without any obvious drug-related assistance.
I was running Win2K on my old Compaq Armada M300 - Celeron 300, 128meg, 6 gig drive. Ultrareliable (until my daughter stood on it). ....
It was acceptable in performance until I was running all the business apps I needed (about 6 terminal sessions onto our AS/400s, outlook, word, domain management tools). It only ever took a major kick when I started to put tracks onto my NetMD at the same time
You forgot the "armies of computers to do all that fancy CGI" though.
What version of windows are you running?
I was running a Win98 PC as a gateway for the kids PCs connection at home, and it was generally fine, the odd virus, but nothing major.
However, when I put in Win2K (SP1, no firewall or AV initially installed), it was virtuall unusable within an hour.
According to the firewall, the machine gets attacked/probed maybe up to a hundred times a day, its ridiculous.
Before anyone replies ... I know that they do in the UK ... not all of europe.
T-mobile in europe supports number porting - no mention of them in the article? It'd be difficult for one part of the company to try and halt such changes, while other arms of the company are already using such processes.
We've had it for years, its been handy to take my number between networks without problems, but the whole cost of cross network charges is a pain. You used to know which network someone was on by their prefix, now you haven't got a clue, and its almost worth asking "what network are you on" when you first call someone, just to keep call charges down.
The Nokia 5510 mobile can record from an audio source ... doubles up as a usable phone as well. Will be trying to get hold of one as soon as my current contract expires .....