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"PSP to be delayed in Europe till September..."

Would have quite an interesting effect on the battle. Giving Nintendo a 6 month headstart.

Will Sony let it happen? Is getting more systems out in the US really more important? Does the fact that there is not enough titles ready for launch matter?

Nintendo's launch of the DS went perfectly, and the PSPs seems to have been shrouded in misery. Ninja disks, dodgy buttons, pants battery life...
Do Sony deserve to fail? Part of me hopes so, but part of me understands the need for a bit of competition for Nintendo. I mean Nintendo didn't really do too well at supplying many decent games on the GBA! But of sodding re-releases. Then they moan at Sony going "All that's going to be on PSP are PS2 ports. {winge winge}" Part of me thinks Nintendo does need a slap, and some competition to make them pull their a***s into gear and give us a solid flow of games for a change, rather than moaning about everyone else.

But then on the other hand, there's a part of me which will always love Nintendo, and doesn't want to see them get a whooping again from Sony. Time will tell which'll turn out to be the most popular. My moneys on the DS, cos I'm gonna buy at least two. One for me, and one for the misses on her birthday. Hope that Doctor game comes out, cos she'd love it, but I don't hold much hope for it coming out anywhere other than Japan. :(

Anyways, delayed PSP! Oh yer. Let it be so!

:)

Shenmue was wonderful!

Shenmue 2 however was akin to scraping your nails down a mile long blackboard.

hence my comment.

Hedfix wrote:
> I meant 'putting all your eggs in a dodgy basket'.

I think they didn't have much of a chance at that point, they pretty much had to just go for the last chance.

SEGA, unlike Nintendo, had very little money when launching that console. It was a slightly foolish thing for them to do.

I meant 'putting all your eggs in a dodgy basket'.

Silly buggers.

Hedfix wrote:
> Silly buggers.

Yeah, especially as they've not progressed past the second edition.

Where's the rest I wonder? Wasn't there supposed to be a movie or something?

Silly buggers.

Hedfix wrote:
> I doubt that.

Shenmue was the most ambitious and expensive project ever. It was really supposed to be the Dreamcast's saviour.

I doubt that.

If the game succeeded as well as they'd hoped and push sales and sell the Dreamcast, like it was meant to, then the Dreamcast would not have died.

No doubt, I was going to put '3-6 months'.

Either way six months before the 'admition of doom' isn't really going to turn things around.