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"Portable PlayStation! Portable PlayStation!"

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Sweet Lord.

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)

Your portable playstation will never out sell the Brillant Nintendo GBA

But some air has to be on the ground.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Totoro wrote:
> The Game Gear, the Atari Lynx, the WonderSwan, the Neo Geo Pocket,
> they've all tried to take the crown, but failed.

Sony have an unparalleled track record in the console industry and I have no doubt that they know exactly what they're doing. The reason the likes of the Wonderswan, Lynx and Neogeo pocket failed is because of the company behind them - Sony will make this big and will do whatever it takes to make the PSP a success.

The introduction of a bit of competition for the GBA should be welcome, hopefully forcing Nintendo to release some more original content and reduce the price of the over expensive games.

I'm holding final judgement until we see it, get final specs and see the thing running, but I'm certainly optomistic!

Darwock wrote:
> And how exactly do you think you'll be able to fit your old PSX games
> inside? This is a portable machine remember. Best news is the ability
> to connect to a TV, that's essential for a portable I reckon.

Connecting a 'portable' machine should be essential for it to connect to a TV? But that kinda defeats the purpose of the portability! If I wanted games to play through my TV I'd use a proper console!

:)

My main issue with something like the PSP, is that the GBA is a good, small portable gaming machine. The games available on it, are good short term games, not requiring your constant attention like games made for major consoles. When games on handhelds finally go fully 3D, to Playstation1 standard, I see games becoming proper fully fledged games. Gone will be the times of the good ol' 2D side scrolling platformer again, and the basic Tetris style puzzle games.

I just hope that with these advances in technology, that developers don't forget about what makes a portable game!

:)