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Sweet Lord.
> What you need to remember is that Sony are absolute masters of
> miniaturisation.
A good point. They do have certain limitations in the screen and controls - especially if they plan to have an analogue stick and/or several action buttons. Plus all the small stuff gets very expensive, at least at first. But they could well pull it off...
> Others have tried and failed in the past, but there are two major
> differences:
>
> 1. In the past, other companies have tried to compete on a level
> playing field - releasing games machines to compete with a games
> machine. This PSP at the very least *sounds* like it will be offering
> top games AND quite a bit more.
There's a flash card adaptor available, in japan / on import at the moment which allows playback of sound and video files through the gba. Plus if the PSP is set to arrive at the same time as the next gba, we could still see machines with similar capabilities...
> 2. The Gameboy has gone stale recently. Many magazines berate the
> quality of the software, which - while of respectable to high standard
> - is pretty much just re-hashed and updated versions of old
> NES/SNES/original Gameboy titles. The GBA-SP, while attractive to
> look at, is just an attempt at injecting some new life into a
> stagnating product.
Got to agree here. The gba isn't much more than a portable snes these days.
> Mind you... 1.8GB discs... more storage on a Sony handheld than on
> Nintendo's main console... interesting...
I guess multiple disks isn't a realistic possibility for a portable machine. It'll be interesting to see how much of the capacity is used though. I guess it'll largely depend on the machine's capabilities and what kind of games are made for it.
>> Got to agree here. The gba isn't much more than a portable snes these
> days.
>
Problem?
:D
> The GBA will beat this in terms of size, considering the PSP will have
> a larger screen, memory stick slot, and other capabilities to cater
> for. Although they are good at miniaturisation, a memory stick slot
> will make it bigger than competitors - unless Nintendo decide to give
> the GBA2 these things as well.
The screen is likely to be all that makes it larger. The USB port and memory stick slot will be irrelevant as far as size goes.
Pop into a decent phone shop and check out the Sony Ericsson P800 - large colour screen and memory stick slot, and smaller than a GBA.
> Pop into a decent phone shop and check out the Sony Ericsson P800 -
> large colour screen and memory stick slot, and smaller than a GBA.
Does it have a Mini Disk slot also?
> Does it have a Mini Disk slot also?
Unfortunately not.
But if you're implying that an MD slot would make for a large machine, you should also check out Sony's MZ-E900 MD player!