PSP Vs. DS : The "wow" factor..
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Doc Holliday
SPOILER: Columbus finds America
Anecdote time again 
Brought my DS to work, game developer...
"Mario looks a lot better than the 64..."
"it looks a little cheap"
"yoshis cute!!"
"psp looks so much better, but i wont buy that either"
"lol you're going to lose that pen in a week"
about metroid "wow looks amazing"
"i hate the dual screens"
"cool, im getting one"
"fuck, 150?"
"you geek"
Brought my DS to work, game developer...
"Mario looks a lot better than the 64..."
"it looks a little cheap"
"yoshis cute!!"
"psp looks so much better, but i wont buy that either"
"lol you're going to lose that pen in a week"
about metroid "wow looks amazing"
"i hate the dual screens"
"cool, im getting one"
"fuck, 150?"
"you geek"
Doc Holliday
SPOILER: Columbus finds America
I'm an artist...i think being a shitty speller is a prerequisite somehow.
Ollie Pooch
In a perfect world, we'd all be homersexual
people are becoming pretty desperate in trying to psychically (is that even a word? ) prove the PSP's failure. sony are taking a huge gamble - but if it pays off, and nintendo are left in the lurch, then i would argue that it's their own fault for becoming lazy. i love nintendo's games, and the DS is awesome, but if it gets trampled, there aint a lot any of you can do about it and i'm finding it pretty hilarious watching a board full of gaming fanatics try and predict the general public's response to something that's not even out yet :lol
and i'm finding it pretty hilarious watching a board full of gaming fanatics try and predict the general public's response to something that's not even out yet :lolmashoutposse said:
You must have gotten the hand held market confused with the console market. Let's rephrase that:
"Time and time again, it has been proven that the handheld gaming market will buy what is affordable without spending a bit more and requiring too many friggin batteries."
Put the 250.00 PSP (with its 50 dollar game library) beside the compatible 80.00/150.00 GBA/DS (with its 35.00 game library) and watch the importance of graphics and useless movie play back dwindle down to nothing.
bryanbr said:
The PSP has a rechargeable battery.
But it seems to me, bryanbr, that you're trying to make up every unfounded excuse to support your obviously biased theory that PSP is going to be a failure.
So I'm just going to say, I can't wait for the day I can laugh in close proximity to your face and say "Well, you were wrong. As I said."
Amir0x said:
The PSP has this wonderful rechargeable battery that last about 4 hours when playing anything besides a puzzle game.
And what happens with rechargeable batteries that require frequent recharging? They quickly become un-rechargeable batteries cause they reached the limit of the number of times that you can recharge 'em.
But don't worry about that Sony will sell you another for about 50 bucks.
Gek54 said:
Hey Gek54 I call a truce. I apologize if it seemed like I was trying to "rile" you or anybody else up. But that was truely not my intent. I've kept it no secret that my console of choice this generation is the Xbox, and that I don't particularly care for the Sony . But you've never seen me say anything negative about them or troll them. Yes I may point out flaws but I point out flaws with Nintendo aswell. And if it's any consolation the PSP will be the first sony gaming system I'll get, which I'm extremely excited about! Especially at the price.
You and some other people have kinda attacked me in other threads and I got defensive, but I'm putting all that behind me. Can't take this shit personal and neither should you.Also thanks to the peeps that stood up for a bruh! Good lookin' out.
bryanbr said:
The rechargeable battery the PSP uses is actually significantly more powerful than the rechargeable battery the DS uses.
But you knew this, didn't you?
It's irrelevant, anyway, because the amount of battery life the PSP ultimately has is a pretty negligible factor in determining how casual consumers receive the handheld. Not only this, but as was clearly laid out earlier in this thread Sony is working hard on a battery solution that'll allow the PSP to last at [their goal] of 14 hours (the time it takes of a flight from New York to Nirata(sp)).
Them ultimately reaching that goal [of 14 hours] is frankly a bit unlikely, but they definitely will have a solution in the long term. As Kuturagi so accurately pointed out, the Walkman originally had a battery life of two-four hours. It survived and became successful despite that problem, and eventually improved to suit the needs of the consumer. A similar situation is not only likely for the PSP, but all but guaranteed if it becomes a success.
bryanbr said:
Oh, you mean the same way all rechargeable batteries eventually die? And, by the way, what happens is after they reach a certain number of recharges the amount of life you get out of a single recharges drops dramatically. You'd have to recharge many, many times before the thing stopped working completely. The DS battery has a 500 mark for recharges before it reaches its 'drop off' point; the GBA SP had a similar number. The PSP has a much better battery, but there's simply more power behind the PSP and thus more battery power is being consumed.
Anyway, you're scratching the walls because you have nothing relevant to back up any of your doomsday forecasts. You can't keep running around like a chicken without a head.
byranbr, What's your definition of "quickly" in regards to batteries becoming "unrechargeable"? Because I've got a PDA here with a Li ion rechargeable battery that lasts about 4 hrs on normal use and I've been recharging it for over a year now with no noticeable loss in battery life.
That quote by itself was interesting, but we have yet to see their DS project in action and their PSP project is just about the most underwhelming piece of launch software based on screenshots and gameplay impressions. Overall, they've got a lot to prove yet.Hardknock said: