PSP

[Himura_san]

My friend told me about playstation making a portable version called the PSP.
I have heard it will blow the GBA out of the water, but there is one thing I am
not too sure on. What is the price of this thing?? Some speculate that it will be $450,
which is ridiculously high for a handheld game console. A friend says that his buddy who works
at GameStop has told him it is "under $200". This thing looks very nice and I am
tempted to pick it up if it's under 200 but at 450 there is no way I'd buy it!
Anyone have any good info on this??

[PossiblE]

I don't think there is any official information on the price yet. Anyways, I doubt it would be $450.00.
That's more than the PS2 when it was brand new.

[Raven]

The DS will be superior IMHO. Sure, the PSP can play movies, but who wants to sit there for two hours holding a handheld to watch? Sounds pretty uncomfortable to me. Nah, we need new innovation rather than just better graphics. That's where Nintendo steps in.

[oceen246]

what are you talking about???? better graphics always come first. that's why there's a war between nvidia and ati when it come to graphic cards.

[JusDaMan]

I got the other PSP... Pocketstation... sadly it was never released to america... so i got import... lol its really boring... i wonder will psp be the same

[Shi_No_Shikaku]

CmDr is write DS will kick it's ass.

[oceen246]

you shouldn't underestimate sony. They proved it to us before with the first playstation. The video games market used to belong to sega and nintendo before, and then sony came and overtook everything. Sega doesn't make anymore console, neither is nintendo. The only thing nintendo is making is the GBA, and now the DS. I saw some of the games they got for the PSP and I was really surprised, I'm talking about a portable system that can play games with graphics almost as good as the PS2.

[chambers]

the ds will be about as succesfull as the virtual boy. how can it be succesfull, even nintendo seems to be stumped as to how to use the two screens in an innovative style, they seem content to use it for maps and such.

[SK]

psp will be better than the ds, i mean with nintendo youll jus be playing the same games theyve been making for 20 years, i think nintendo is more for little kids, and sony more for young adults. i dont think we would see gta on the ds [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]

[Swallow Your Soul]

I read somewhere that battery life would be a pretty big problem for the PSP...personally I'm not really bothered either way, I doubt I'll get either but the DS sounds more interesting to me personally, but if I bought it it'd hardly get played (pretty much all I use my GBA SP for is to (very rarely) play mario kart and the original GB Tetris [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]). Watching films seems like a pretty pointless idea really, I'm not sure but the PSP uses these specialised small discs don't they? So you'd be paying for a film that you can only watch on a tiny screen.

[chambers]

i do think the DS will fail misrebaly but should they launch with a new pokemon game, then they could have a chance!

[Shi_No_Shikaku]

that will launch a new pokemon game there is no end to it aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhh...

[Knives122]

If they did that, then no one will buy it Mario is a good choice b/c everyone loves mario, and besides all the other stuff you can do with it is already drawing attention, so out of the two DS rules

[Raven]

Originally posted by: oceen246
you shouldn't underestimate sony. They proved it to us before with the first playstation. The video games market used to belong to sega and nintendo before, and then sony came and overtook everything. Sega doesn't make anymore console, neither is nintendo. The only thing nintendo is making is the GBA, and now the DS. I saw some of the games they got for the PSP and I was really surprised, I'm talking about a portable system that can play games with graphics almost as good as the PS2.

Nintendo are about to officially announce their next major console, apparently it will have something that none of the others have, something special we don't know about. Haven't you heard about this? Where did you get "not making consoles anymore" from?

And sure, the PS1 was popular, but what did it really do that well apart from a great marketing scheme? If you look at the console itself it wasn't THAT great or innovative. The PSP is the same. I'm not denying that it will do well, because I know that Sony will market it beyond belief, and we all know that people are generally suckers for what's shoved in their faces. Nintendo seem to suck at marketing for some reason, but I still believe that the actual DS is potentially superior to the PSP if you take them both and put them side by side. Each will have their fanbase, but to say that the DS will "fail miserably" is rubbish.

[oceen246]

I heard the gamecube was supposed to be the last console from nintendo, and they were going to start making games only just like sega, I won't deny that I might be wrong.
now by talking about marketing scheme, come on, the playstation had the best game ever when it came out, the nintendo 64 only had kids games that couldn't compare to the superior graphic of the PS, the only one that could actually compete was the dreamcast because it had the best sports game. but sports are not the only games people want.
the playstation was just incomparable with other systems. most people who agree with me that even now, noone would trade a PS for a DC or a N64. Now, the second generation came out, and sega is out of the game, and GC is barely making it. The only ones left are PS2 and Xbox.
I didn't say the DS is going to fail, but I don't think it will be able to beat the PSP. 99% of nintento games are for kids, and the PSP is aiming to an older generation with games like metal geal solid. I never underestimated nintendo as myself own a GBA SP, but right now, sony is stepping up to a higher level that most of us were waiting for.

[Zoels]

i thought that n64 had better graphics than playstation, since n64's had 64 bits of memory and playstation had only 32 or something. and plus, n64's had those graphic enhancing thingys that you needed for games like donkey kong 64 and perfect dark. am i right?

[oceen246]

N64 was supposed to have better graphics than the PS, but as everybody can see, nintendo couldn't take advantages of it

[ShinobiNeko]

I remember someone telling me there's supposed to be a Naruto game being made for the DS, so just for that my interest more towards DS than PSP at the moment

[Mookie]

My take is that they should be taken on different levels.

PSP is posing to be the "next walkman".
It'll play movies, games, AND brush your teeth*!

The DS, however, is a new way for games to be made with its two screens and wireless play.
Sounds like both will focus on different markets while the SP stays on a whole other level still crankin out awesome games.

Just my two cents on it.

*may not brush your teeth

[Hakeem_21]

I will buy PSP for sure cause i like the game that will come to it. Like Metal Gear,DMC,PES etc.

Im pretty sure that sony will dominate over nintendo like that they do now even with PSP. Nintendo is nothing nowdays they just make bad copies of games that was good 20 years...