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"Why don't Sony make a portable?"

This has always amazed me. Why don't Sony make a portable handheld console like the GBA? Sony could get away from cartridges, and even use their own MiniDisc media for holding the games. If nothing else, it would offer some competition to Nintendo.

Want something portable from MS...?

Can't you just get an LCD screen for the Xbox...?

;-)

Have you seen the SSX Tricky shots on the GBA?

Awful purty...=D

Or dare I say it...?

Microsoft?

*shudders*

Meh. I just use my PSone and LCD screen.

Even though the GBA's very good, the screen is just too small and dark for me. What I think we need, is a truely portable system, with the option of a backlight. I know it might run the batteries out quicker, but people have managed to work around that with the weird modification you can get for GBAs now.

So, come on ninty or sony! Sort it out!

Well, I got in the right decade anyhow :D

P@st@ M@st@ wrote:
> Um, Sibs, the Game Boy was originally released in 1989 or 1988, not
> the early eighties!!!!


Oops... weel anyhoo it's a long time :D
I just thought back and I seemed to remember the copyright stuff on the GB load up screen that said something like (C) 1981... maybe I'm thinking of something else... ah well :D


> Oh and another one word reason: Tetris.


Yeah, Tetris was a major selling point on GB release, but now it's not. Look at all the poor imitations of it, they have all tried to add new twists and usually ended up completely ruining the formula altogether...

didnt the pocketsation only come out in japan?

Sibs wrote:
> Na†ßu© wrote:
> Thy did make the pocket station which was pants but then they made
> the
> PSOne portable but the portable screen was too expensive.
>
> I thought those Pocket Stations were just rip offs of the DreamCast
> VDU (Visual Display Unit) memory cards...?


They were I think although they came out in 96 and Dreamcast weren't even out then. They were still pants.

They were ;)

Um, Sibs, the Game Boy was originally released in 1989 or 1988, not the early eighties!!!!

However, your right with the fact that the game base is now too large to compete against, so sony won't take the risk, especially as recent attempts to steal the GB crown have failed, the Neo Geo, the Game Gear and the Atari Lynx have all come and gone. And failed.

The sucess of the gameboy was down to one reason. Battery Life. An Original Gameboy would run for 24 hours on a set of four batteries, a Game Gear or Lynx would only run a third of that time. That another reason that they failed, maintenace costs. People where far more willing to buy a Game boy than anything else as it would be less expensive.

Also the gameboy has always been cheaper than the competition. They were originally launched at 79.99 and quickley moved down to around the £45 pound mark.

Oh and another one word reason: Tetris.

Sony would have to compete with all of this.