"That's not a game machine," said Yasuhiro Minagawa, head of PR for Nintendo Co., Ltd. "They showed it at the [Tokyo] Game Show without any fundamental game software, and you can tell that it's not yet complete."
drohne said:bet you didn't.
they don't. ps2's installed base is larger than the gba's. and since the gba's already being replaced, i expect the ps2 to stay ahead.
snapty00 said:Oh, God, not this again. I feel like I'm zapped back to 2000 when Nintendo insisted PlayStation 2 and Xbox weren't game machines.
Ugh.
I understand all of this, and it's fair to point out that the PSP isn't *just* a flash based MP3 player. The multiple functions are going to be very attractive to people who might be considering an iPod. Gigs and gigs and gigs of music might be nice, but who knows if people might rather have something that has 1 GB of flash storage and the ability to play movies and games?soundwave05 said:The market for HDD based music players is growing, but the market for flash-based music players is not.
That's a big difference. The PSP plays MP3s, but its not a HDD MP3 player.
The whole point of the i-Pod is that you can carry your entire music collection with you where ever you go, and that lets you listen to whatever music you're in the mood for at any given moment.
The PSP is a flash based MP3 player.
If i-Pod ran on memory cards, I gauruntee it would be a fringe product at best.
Vieo said:gamefaqs.com has an interesting ongoing poll.
AniHawk said:GameFAQs.com is also largely populated by Nintendo fanboys.
DarthWufei said:...and fanboys of a certain PSX RPG...
explodet said:Counterpoint: Nintendo is trying to compete against two multi-billion dollar corporations who both have enormous resources and considerable global influence.
Speevy said:This will be funny next generation, when MS launches as the console market leader and Sony possibly as the handheld market leader. Talk about an alternate universe...
Actually no. Gamefaqs.com is known for housing Sony fanboys, and the polls are often evident of that.AniHawk said:GameFAQs.com is also largely populated by Nintendo fanboys.
krypt0nian said:
GameFAQs.com is also largely populated by Nintendo fanboys.
GameFAQs really got off the ground because of the superb FAQs for Square games. For a few years, the Square FAQs have consistently taken up most of the top ten, so what you're saying is not really surprising.... except for the Nintendo bit.AniHawk said:Yeah. Square fanboys and Nintendo fanboys = 60% of all GameFAQs residents. 25% are PS2 fanboys, 14.9999999999999999% are Xbox fanboys, and there's one sane guy. His name is Jerry.
snapty00 said:While I agree that Sony and (especially) Microsoft are global corporations with billions of dollars, Nintendo has more in the bank than Sony has. Microsoft, obviously, is a different situation.
If Nintendo wanted to burn a little money on DS for a year or so, it could. It chose not to do so. That's fine and dandy, and maybe it'll pay off short-term, but long-term, this will go down as yet another mistake in a long list of mistakes.
Speevy said:This will be funny next generation, when MS launches as the console market leader and Sony possibly as the handheld market leader. Talk about an alternate universe...
DavidDayton said:It must be Bizarroworld, if MS is the market leader.
jenov4 said:Does anyone even take those Gamefaqs polls seriously? It's anything Square > *
DarthWufei said:Yeah I agree, don't take them seriously. But for the latter point, I guess FF7:CC news didn't spread.
soundwave05 said:For Nintendo to sell a product like PSP for $200, they'd probably have to lose upwards of $150/unit for a good while. That's not a "little bit".
Multiply that by the 4 million units of DS' that they're planning to ship prior to March 2005.
I don't know what that would be number wise but I imagine it'd take a nice sized chunk out of their war chest in just a few months.
Speevy said:The Playstation console brand isn't what it once was. Consumers are finding a better alternative, plain and simple.
The way this year's console race has gone would be the equivalent of the Sega Master System outselling the NES for the entire holiday season of 1988 or something. No console market leader has ever held that lead for more than two consecutive generations to my knowledge, and I expect MS to have the #1 console on the market.
I'm no fortune teller mind you, but the momentum is clearly not in Sony's favor.
No shit. No fucking shit. I swear, the similarities are scary.neptunes said:
This is like 1995 all over again
thefit said:Waaa!
The PSP price has really riled up nintendo afterall they are trying to look like a more mature game company with the way the have headed in the design of the SP and DS and the low prices so that at the same time be affordable to the younger croud but here comes big bad sony and pops that bubble cuz now you can be a seriouse "mature" gamer even if your not old enought to have a bank account yet!
nintendo is afraid that now people will see things the way they really are and have been for a while.
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