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The new Sony handheld will offer raw speed faster than the PS1, but just short of PS2. This will be many times more powerful than the GBA. For storage, the Sony handheld will use a 1.8Gb capacity disc system. This holds even more data than Nintendo's GameCube which is limited to 1.5Gb.
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I really can't see the point of a Nokia G cage I reckon that it will be just the same as other competitors
Didn't Sony tell us this already?
Then Top score?
Then Top score?
Yes and it'll happen overnight too. Sony have genetically engineered the little beggards to transform all Gameboys into Sony handhelds by the stroke of twelve midnight!
I need my hand held. It's too scary!
:P
I need my hand held. It's too scary!
:P
how rebellious, in a... conformist sort of way.
Whats the dilly with the Nokia thingy?? Any websites to check out?? By the way in the same way that Im anti Sony, Im also anti Nokia prefering to buy Samsung and Sharp mobile fones instead, (For Iam an individual in a world of conformity)
You also have to take into consideration that people don't want to be paying over £200 on a handheld gaming device when you can get a fully featured home console for less money. That is exactly how the Game Gear failed as a Mega Drive was a similar price. The Nokia N-Gage gets round this cost issue by doubling as a mobile phone but add ons such as MPEG playback are simply gimmicks that are fairly useless. Best to keep things simple from my point of view, and from a battery eating point of view as well.
Microchips wrote:
> So, by saying that, you've totally gone against your statement in the
> title.
>
> Yes...
That's exactly what I was going to say!
What a pillock.
Updated, you're a fanboy. Get a life and make real friends.
It's a piece of plastic, it plays games and keeps you amused in your spare time, you don't need to get all protective over it.
> So, by saying that, you've totally gone against your statement in the
> title.
>
> Yes...
That's exactly what I was going to say!
What a pillock.
Updated, you're a fanboy. Get a life and make real friends.
It's a piece of plastic, it plays games and keeps you amused in your spare time, you don't need to get all protective over it.
Microchips wrote:
> So, by saying that, you've totally gone against your statement in the
> title.
>
> Yes...
Well, if Sony's hand held beats the GBA.x in to a pulp this year, or next, it still gets beat into a pulp both ways.
> So, by saying that, you've totally gone against your statement in the
> title.
>
> Yes...
Well, if Sony's hand held beats the GBA.x in to a pulp this year, or next, it still gets beat into a pulp both ways.
So, by saying that, you've totally gone against your statement in the title.
Yes...
Yes...
Agent Cool wrote:
> Sony will find it difficult to topple the Game Boy Advance even if
> this new handheld is fantastic. I know they took the best share of the
> market with the PSOne on their first real attempt but there wasn't one
> truly dominating console around at that time. In fact, 1995 was more
> of a transition period with the Mega Drive and SNES beginning to go
> away and the Saturn had just been released, but it wasn't selling
> well. That was an easy market to get into. But here you're talking
> about them trying to get into a market that Nintendo essentially has
> the monopoly on. The Sony device will take a good chunk of the
> handheld market but it won't become handheld leader, at least not for
> a long while.
Right. I am not saying a Sony hand held would take over straight away. GBA is already there and has an established user base. GBA-SP will keep it going a bit longer, until GBA2 is released. But the presence of a rival (especially if it's good, and it is Sony ofcourse) would at the start make an impact, and Nintendo would have to "fight" for that market, whereas at the moment, it's a one horse race. Then, later, I could see Sony's machine starting to get more common place than the GBA series, although it would probably take a second generation Sony hand held to "win over" most of the hand held market.
> Sony will find it difficult to topple the Game Boy Advance even if
> this new handheld is fantastic. I know they took the best share of the
> market with the PSOne on their first real attempt but there wasn't one
> truly dominating console around at that time. In fact, 1995 was more
> of a transition period with the Mega Drive and SNES beginning to go
> away and the Saturn had just been released, but it wasn't selling
> well. That was an easy market to get into. But here you're talking
> about them trying to get into a market that Nintendo essentially has
> the monopoly on. The Sony device will take a good chunk of the
> handheld market but it won't become handheld leader, at least not for
> a long while.
Right. I am not saying a Sony hand held would take over straight away. GBA is already there and has an established user base. GBA-SP will keep it going a bit longer, until GBA2 is released. But the presence of a rival (especially if it's good, and it is Sony ofcourse) would at the start make an impact, and Nintendo would have to "fight" for that market, whereas at the moment, it's a one horse race. Then, later, I could see Sony's machine starting to get more common place than the GBA series, although it would probably take a second generation Sony hand held to "win over" most of the hand held market.
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