YeuEmMaiMai said:
Rabid fans like to say that the PSP can be an MP 3 player, connect to the Internet, and a movie player
One does not have to be a rabid fan to say it can do these things, because obviously, it CAN do all of these things... You're heading nowhere in a great big hurry with this kind of pointless reasoning.
(notice I didn't say DVD cause it cannot play DVDs)
Nor can it cook TV dinners or do your laundry either, but then again, the same is the case for any other portable console for that matter. Why do you even bother to bring this up?
While this is certantly true it is not very practicle to use it as such due to variosu factors being cost, screen resolution and functionality.
I suppose next you're going to say it's no good for playing games on either because screen is too small (despite having highest rez of any portable gaming device), blah blah.
Surfing the Internet with the PSP is like surfing with a phone. you would not use it on a regular basis..
It's not like surfing on a phone. The PSP screen is much bigger than any phone's. And in case you haven't understood, the PSP is a PORTABLE device. Nobody would use the PSP to surf with when at home (unless some people are compulsive surfers and will bring it with them to the loo or such), just as nobody would drag their home desktop and screen with them downtown and plug them in at Starbucks. Again: your arguing is going exceedingly poorly trying to fault this product for having a wide set of actually useable features.
What you think that a PSP is a great MP3 player? From a COST point of view it SUCKS because the storage capacity is not there.....until you spend insane amount of cash......it is also extremely large and bulky compared to other flash type players.
I don't have to spend "an insane" amount of cash. I can buy an 1GB duo for only slightly more than the equivalent size SD-card. You're doing a great case showing what a backwards individual you are. You're picking the PSP apart looking at every feature only from the negative angles. It's like if we were discussing cars, you'd be like, "it's huge! And noisy! And HEAVY! And the engine won't run if you run out of fuel! WAAAHHHH!!!"
What you're doing here is commonly known as "whining".
Of course hardly anybody would buy a PSP to use only as a MP3 player (I'm sure there's someone somewhere doing just that, but then again there are people lifting big rocks with their schlongs too), but that's not the device's primary purpose. It's a gaming device, which thanks to its powerful hardware and comprehensive feature-set can do other stuff as well. It can surf the web because it's got wifi and a CPU fast enough to run a browser effectively on a mildly useable resolution screen, it can play MP3s because it's got a flashcard slot and a good sound processor, and so on. It's sort of interesting in a bizarre twilight zone manner to see you turn the table around and portray these features as
disadvantages. Especially considering none of the PSP's (succesful) competitors have any of these features.
If sony would have made the PSP a gaming system instead of a convergence device they would be doing a lot better than they are now and this is evidenced by weekly sales.
I don't see how you can use events that did NOT happen as evidence of what WOULD have happened, had said things happened. You're just making shit up, that's all.
for the last week in portable gaming sales Nintendo outsold Sony 2.29 to 1
Nintendo sells more because Nintendo's been doing the portable thing for over fifteen years now. They've got the mindset, reputation, and have during this time built up a library of popular franchises and good original titles, and not to be underestimated, their hardware is less expensive (though technically and functionally inferior).
It doesn't mean that Sony would have done much better sales-wise if they'd put together a el-cheapo simple console out of ancient tech like Nintendo did. Most likely, they'd rather failed miserably at the attempt, because you can't compete head-on with the 800-pound gorilla that is Nintendo in their own niche. Nobody who has tried has survied the attempt.
On the other hand, with a more advanced and expensive console Sony can carve out a space for themselves above Nintendo and flourish quite well, like they do now, and even more so in the future when PS3 is released and the two will benefit from interconnectivity.
