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"PSP to trounce Gameboy?"

Fully 3D handheld console with disc based format...

Oh dear.

And the Playstation name can sell.

TGMbloke wrote:
> The PSP has 2 options.
>
> 1) Sony rush it out with no decent games, and it flops quicker than
> the NeoGeo on a bad day
>
> 2) Sony get a load of killer apps, GTpocket, GTApocket (3D), and Tob
> Raider Pocket (3D like the PDA version) and a whole host of other PS
> titles ready, a load of cool gadgets for it (USB cameras, memory
> sticks, possible CD enlarger device for PSone games) and it kills off
> the GBA. Why?
>
> Nintendo have had a lot of stick latly for milking the GB licence. GB
> Pocket was quickly followed by GBC, which wsa then by GBA, which was
> then by SP which will now be by SP1.5 with headphones and better
> battery.

They release a new console every 2 years or so in order to keep up with the fast pace of modern hand held gaming. And if the PSP has all these add ons it will flop... I worry for the GBA... but if Nintendo release the next GBA to coincide with the release of the Gamecube 2 (The PSP would have been out for a bit but hype for the next GB and the desire to stick with the GBA for a little longer will dumb down sales) then as long as it is a nice jump (Possibly a mini N64) then everything will be fine and dandy.

A Mini-N64 (cartridge based) now that would be a system to own.

Trust me,the Gameboy name is huge. If it wasn't, then it wouldn't have sold more units than any other system ever. It's the same reason the PS2 sells loads, but the Gameboy name was bigger.

And the Nintendo name WAS big, but that was when gaming was muchos smaller. It's still the same "size" as it was before, but compared to Sony, its much smaller now.

The SP is £90 in any shop I've seen it....

You may think, oh the Playstation name can sell, but the Gameboy name is mucho bigger.

Also, the best thing I can see Nintendo doing to counter this is to possibly reduce the GBA SP, and definitely reduce the games. £30 for a handheld game is extortionate, to be honest. If they were priced at £20, games would fly off the shelves.

TGMbloke wrote:
> And too many Mario Games.

YOU CAN NEVER HAVE TOO MANY MARIO GAMES!

Although they should be cheaper, or in an All Stars package, like you said.

gamezfreak wrote:
> Blank wrote:
> To compare the Pocketstation to the PSP is ridiculous, they're
> completely different things altogether.
>
> .....
>
> I know the Pocketstation turned out to be extremely different, but
> when it was *ANNOUNCED* years before release, Sony dubbed it to be the
> handheld playstation.
>
> Turned out to be crappy VMA thing.

We'll have to see... the Japanese are loyal to their GBA and Pokemon society... if it fails over there...

Blank wrote:
> To compare the Pocketstation to the PSP is ridiculous, they're
> completely different things altogether.

.....

I know the Pocketstation turned out to be extremely different, but when it was *ANNOUNCED* years before release, Sony dubbed it to be the handheld playstation.

Turned out to be crappy VMA thing.

To compare the Pocketstation to the PSP is ridiculous, they're completely different things altogether.

And to say the GBA and SP will diminish PSP sales might be like saying the PSOne will diminish XBox sales.

The GBA have a problem... but the GBA Vs. PSP will be very very close as the GBA has such a large userbase... and as people begin to flock from the GBA to the PSP the second one will appear... and just as people decide to get a PSP instead they'll pick up the "newer" GBA.