Thread spun off from PSP2's GPU prediction thread.
Quality is more important than sales. Which is why I prefer PSP over DS, XBOX over PS2/GCN, PS3 over 360/Wii, N64 over PS1.
PSP's emphasis on specs is what resulted in much better games than we'd ever get on handhelds thanks to Nintendo
Yes is it. In some ways better, some ways worse.
Well they need to get people to realize better hardware doesnt result in only better graphics. It effects every aspect of gameplay as well. You'd be a fool to think the only difference in a game running on the DS and a similar game running on PSP is just graphics.
As a programmer, I want to punch anyone in the face who says it's just graphics.
Sega released multiple systems that required dedicated development, in rapid succession
Go is another model of the same system. Plus, PSone came out after PS2 did. PStwo came out a year before PS3.
Lets assume Sony is smart and wants to remain competitive with DSi and retain backwards compatibility, at the very least so they can sell PSN content to more people.
That means PSP2 will be using more advanced versions of the current hardware (see GB to GBC to GBA to DS to DSi, GCN to Wii) Portables are limited in power, space and cost. That excludes the possibility of any fancy second GPU, and only using 1 at a time. This isnt PS3, it simply doesnt have room to do something like that. GBA used GBC's processor as a sound chip. DS used GBAs as a second processor, DSi kept both wii-style. Even PS2 used PS1's processor as it's BIOS. Not having PSPs library to rely on would be suicide against DSi's thousands of games the day it came out
And sales of the Go tell anyone with any business sense in Sony not to let them repeat the mistake of ditching UMD again. Though I could have (and did) told them Go would have sold so poorly. They shouldn't have made that mistake the first time. 75% of the world doesnt even have broadband. Sony isn't going to stop selling to markets they currently sell to just to switch to downloads cause a few people dont understand why UMD is so perfect for distributing games.
50 million isn't bad but what has the DS done in the same time? What will the iPhone/iTouch do in that time?
Quality is more important than sales. Which is why I prefer PSP over DS, XBOX over PS2/GCN, PS3 over 360/Wii, N64 over PS1.
PSP's emphasis on specs is what resulted in much better games than we'd ever get on handhelds thanks to Nintendo
Well, PSP isn't quite close to PS2 really is it?
Yes is it. In some ways better, some ways worse.
They'll need to sell the PSP2 at a price that people will pay and I'm not sure people are going to pay big bucks for better graphics in a handheld
Well they need to get people to realize better hardware doesnt result in only better graphics. It effects every aspect of gameplay as well. You'd be a fool to think the only difference in a game running on the DS and a similar game running on PSP is just graphics.
As a programmer, I want to punch anyone in the face who says it's just graphics.
New PSP SKUs just about every year and then PSP2 a year after they put out the PSP Go?
Who does Sony think they are, Sega?
Sega released multiple systems that required dedicated development, in rapid succession
Go is another model of the same system. Plus, PSone came out after PS2 did. PStwo came out a year before PS3.
Lets assume Sony is smart and wants to remain competitive with DSi and retain backwards compatibility, at the very least so they can sell PSN content to more people.
That means PSP2 will be using more advanced versions of the current hardware (see GB to GBC to GBA to DS to DSi, GCN to Wii) Portables are limited in power, space and cost. That excludes the possibility of any fancy second GPU, and only using 1 at a time. This isnt PS3, it simply doesnt have room to do something like that. GBA used GBC's processor as a sound chip. DS used GBAs as a second processor, DSi kept both wii-style. Even PS2 used PS1's processor as it's BIOS. Not having PSPs library to rely on would be suicide against DSi's thousands of games the day it came out
And sales of the Go tell anyone with any business sense in Sony not to let them repeat the mistake of ditching UMD again. Though I could have (and did) told them Go would have sold so poorly. They shouldn't have made that mistake the first time. 75% of the world doesnt even have broadband. Sony isn't going to stop selling to markets they currently sell to just to switch to downloads cause a few people dont understand why UMD is so perfect for distributing games.