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"Portable PlayStation! Portable PlayStation!"

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Sweet Lord.

Hmm. We're starting with a pretty big screen, 4.5".

If it folds over gba style it could cary it off.

Then again if it'll have an analgoue stick or two it'll need to be bigger still (can't fold on top of the sticks, so it'll need to overlap on one half).

TV connection? That's what my PS2 and cube are for. A nice feature, but essential? In a *portable* machine? Come on...

I think I'll save judgement for when we have more details.

FinalFantasyFanatic wrote:
> wOrD
> Better look and taste nice.
> And have mp3 abilities.
> And cook bacon.
> And be lighter than air.
> And lemony fresh.


Lighter than air? Better make sure you don't drop it, because you're never seeing it again.


And I always said they should use discs, but apparently by using discs you bump the cost of the hardware up. Needs a motor, see.

Dr Duck wrote:
> Then again if it'll have an analgoue stick or two it'll need to be
> bigger still (can't fold on top of the sticks, so it'll need to
> overlap on one half)

Strangely I was thinking about this the other day - I came to the conclusion that you could just push the sticks into the console, pull them out again when needed.

Yar, when you push them down they'd be more like d-pads (still useable) then you could pop em' up and use the as sticks.
T'would be cool.

Okay, okay.
It should be exaclty the same weight as air, so it'll just float exactly where you leave it. Unless there's a wind blowing ....
Drat.
Ahem: It should weigh as much as a ferret in in toupee.

But some air has to be on the ground.

Your portable playstation will never out sell the Brillant Nintendo GBA

Shall I take my SP back? Oh, and do you reckon you could back up PSOne games on these Mini Disks like you can with Music Mini Disks (With music CD's)

Blank wrote:
> But some air has to be on the ground.

Your mum.

It certainly sounds interesting and adds a bit of variety. But I think its going to be very hard for them to get a really good market presence. The GBA is so far ahead. It kills everything. The Game Gear never made it. And it was pretty decent I think. It also was from a big company. Sure I think Sony will push the Portable Playstation but I dont think it can catch up with the GBA. There is going to be a lot of competition in the near future, but instead of it all being at the expense of Ninty, its going to be Sony versus Nokia and its N-Gage. Plus mobile phone games are getting better and better. But only time will tell.

I'd quite like it to have Bluetooth.

Not only could you then interface with your PC, you could maybe have wireless headphones, extra wireless control pads for multiplayer, aswell as linking up to another PSP wirelessly.

And perhaps using a piece of PC software, you could have online multiplayer through your PC and bluetooth, to someone elses PC and bluetooth console.