Nintendo about the PSP
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hey69 said:
why would "most people" wanna pay £199 for something they want to play around with, something thats gonna get accidentally dropped a few times, will be full of sand after playing with it on the beach in those boring moments... and, let's not forget, it's £199 worth of mugging material... see where i'm getting at here?
i think 199 is too much for a portable thing.... as powerful as it is... at the end of the day, portable devices have never really been about power, more about comfortability, fun etc...
PSP 3D
GBA 2D
of course there is a difference in software.
I wont be shock at all if PSP cost in the 200+ range. It is a godamn PDE gadgets and not some little toy. I wonder how much Sony is going to take the loss. Rememeber PSP was pushed back because they were losing tons during the early PS2 days(and Ken was almost SACKWACKED!). With PSX and PS3( 2005 as "you" wished
) on the horizon, SCE is pushing a little tight.
GBA 2D
of course there is a difference in software.
I wont be shock at all if PSP cost in the 200+ range. It is a godamn PDE gadgets and not some little toy. I wonder how much Sony is going to take the loss. Rememeber PSP was pushed back because they were losing tons during the early PS2 days(and Ken was almost SACKWACKED!). With PSX and PS3( 2005 as "you" wished
) on the horizon, SCE is pushing a little tight. chaphack said:PSP 3D
GBA 2D
of course there is a difference in software.
I wont be shock at all if PSP cost in the 200+ range. It is a godamn PDE gadgets and not some little toy. I wonder how much Sony is going to take the loss. Rememeber PSP was pushed back because they were losing tons during the early PS2 days(and Ken was almost SACKWACKED!). With PSX and PS3( 2005 as "you" wished
.....and chap is back.....
OK, couple things.
1. Nintendo said they aren't catering to the same people with GCN because GCN is a 'pure games' machine, not a 'multimedia box'. It had nothing to do with age.
2. Yamauchi needs to go away. Seriously.
3. An interview in the latest Nintendo Power, talking about PSP, said that Nintendo has been expecting Sony to try a handheld since 1989, and they're definitely going to give PSP a serious battle when it appears. If I get enough requests I'll scan the interview.
1. Nintendo said they aren't catering to the same people with GCN because GCN is a 'pure games' machine, not a 'multimedia box'. It had nothing to do with age.
2. Yamauchi needs to go away. Seriously.
3. An interview in the latest Nintendo Power, talking about PSP, said that Nintendo has been expecting Sony to try a handheld since 1989, and they're definitely going to give PSP a serious battle when it appears. If I get enough requests I'll scan the interview.
Tagrineth said:
There's some Nintendo-on-PSP commentary in the GC special issue of Edge Magazine too. That issue kinda sucked btw, felt like it was mostly fluff and the few big titles it talked about got very little space it felt like. There was like ZERO about the GC-exclusive stuff from Capcom (Viewtiful Joe and those that were announced a while back), nothing about RE4, etc etc. F-Zero got like barely one page...
Not sure if this is because of bad journalism on Edge's behalf or because GC support is lagging behind, but in comparison the PS2 issue seemed much meatier. I don't know HOW many pages were taken up by fullscreen ads/illustrations about GC rather than information.
EDIT: Not a WORD spent on the network adaptor that's been out for months now in euroland, or on Nintendo's (lack of an?) online strategy. Very disappointing.
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How about adding TVs, Players and all the other hardware Sony makes to make that list longer and more gloomy?Chap said:
After all, Sony just won't stop making those damn home appliances, especially these that sell in $1000 range, and we all know SCE products have suffered terribly for last 20 years because of them. Hell I'm sure PSOne would be released in 1975 if it wasn't for stupid other divisions holding the hardware back with their high end products that never sell anyhow.
And you'd think they'd have learned from all the trouble Samsung has everytime trying to launch a new monitor model but it just happens to collide with simultaneous release of their howitzers.
Not to mention we already know M$ will be forced to delay XBox2 a couple of years because of time and development costs for new version of Office.
PSX might be Sony's main div baby, but it was said that SCE is helpin to push that sucker. Think about it, 2 totally new larger suckers(PSP PS3) and one revamp sucker. Every bit counts, especially when we know how critical con SCE ran into with the PS2.
Oh, now it comes along with fighting in overwhelmed territory(handheld) and much tuFFer competition, with MS/Nintendo proposed head-2-head launch. Better be pushing teh rite buttons Mr Kutaragi.
Oh, now it comes along with fighting in overwhelmed territory(handheld) and much tuFFer competition, with MS/Nintendo proposed head-2-head launch. Better be pushing teh rite buttons Mr Kutaragi.
london-boy,
i said 'up to 199$' that's quite a difference from 199£
btw, i paid 229EURO for my mobile phone (T300 sony ericcson , nothing special) and most phones drop almost 50% in their first year.
what i want to say is that , if the average buyer's age is +16 years old, they can ask more money for a adult portable console
i said 'up to 199$' that's quite a difference from 199£
btw, i paid 229EURO for my mobile phone (T300 sony ericcson , nothing special) and most phones drop almost 50% in their first year.
what i want to say is that , if the average buyer's age is +16 years old, they can ask more money for a adult portable console
*L* Nah... They'll just prioritize Xbox at the expense of Windows. Maybe that's the REAL reason Longhorn is delayed!!!
One minor little nitpick... SCEI has only been around 10 years...
And how is that any different from the critical conditions that SCEI was in with the original Playstation? Or Microsoft with it's various hiccups with Xbox?
I still don't see how that's "over-extending" themselves... Perhaps if they were an independent company and not part of a larger manufacturing concern...
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Hmm, the Xbox chip was basically ahead of anything else at the moment of it's launch. It took some months for GF4 to arrive on the market and much longer for DX9 / GFFX. No matter what DX they launch Xbox 2 with, it's reasonable to expect that PC will progress with few generations of DX software/hardware in console's life span.
I don't see any reason why MS can't release DX9.x in 2004 then DX10 in 2005. Just look at the situation right now. We'll be seeing PS/VS 3.0 later this year. Then next year we might see DX9.1 with PS/VS 4.0. Then 2005 DX10 with PS/VS 5.0 etc.
I don't see delaying DX10 into 2005 as affecting the PC space at all...
I don't see delaying DX10 into 2005 as affecting the PC space at all...
hey69 said:
I went through this some time ago.
i called it something like "internal-videogame-market-exchange-value"...
i explained how on launch a PS2 cost US$299 and UK£299, which are very different, actually let me rephrase that... WHICH IS A F**KING RIP-OFF... same for Xbox... sorry couldnt resist...
in the videogame market, the US dollar seems to have pretty much the same value of the UK pound, not caring that the pound is actually worth almost fricking double the amount of a US dollar.
so there u go. if the thing will cost US$199 it will also cost UK£199. which is a rip off but its been like that since the days of the NES.
There was an exception to that rule this gen, so hopefully that was a sign of things to come. Although I suppose its still likely that Sony will continue to release systems using a 1/1 dollar to pound conversion given there strong position. Unless PS3 is being seriously threatened by competing consoles before its launch of course, which might yet happen.
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