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Nintendo Gaming / "Game Boy is for 10-year-olds..."

« on: June 11, 2003, 08:45:29 PM »

You make good points Cube, but I'm not so sure if "Gameboy Future" will be able to do everything that the PSP can do.  Just by looking at PSP's specs, it seems like it is going to be quite expensive(maybe not quite as bad as the N-Gage, but costly nonetheless).  I believe that Nintendo is going to show alot of respect to Sony and not simply ignore the PSP.  Nintendo will most likely push the envelope with their next handheld but I'm not sure if they will match the PSP spec for spec.  The next Game Boy should be cost friendly, but of course still retain the same user base that they've had (which is pretty much, well...everybody).  Sony will try to push their handheld as the "wave of the future" and I do think they will succeed, but their success will be rather limited.

Stealing Nintendo's market share is going to be alot tougher without exclusive content from Square, Enix, and all the other major 3rd parties.  It's still too early to tell, but I think Sony will try to use Nintendo's current GBA strategy, but with a twist.  Nintendo wants GBA users to go out and get a GCN so they can use the connectivity features.  Sony on the other hand will convince PS2 (or PS3) users to go out and get their new handheld.  There will be quite a few people out there getting one but I believe the price may not be attractive enough to garner consistently high sales.  PSP will sell, perhaps even in droves at the outset, but not in the long run where Nintendo will have many of the main developers still working on games for GBA(and beyond).  While saying that, I do think the PSP should not be shrugged aside and I believe it is the greatest threat to the Gameboy since Sega's Game Gear.

Speaking of the Game Gear, can anyone tell me how well it actually did?  Perhaps I'm mistaken but I always thought that it had a sizable following but ultimately fell to Game Boy.  Isn't it the handheld that threatened Game Boy the most?  Or has there been another handheld that has performed even better against Game Boy?

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Nintendo Gaming / "Game Boy is for 10-year-olds..."

« on: June 11, 2003, 05:10:12 PM »

The N-Gage will most certainly fail because of its mediocre list of games and more importantly, because of its price.  As for Sony's handheld, well that's something that will provide far greater competition.  One difference here is that this won't be like the PSX beating out the N64.  With the N64, Nintendo stayed with cartridges, and that made most 3rd parties (and valuable 2nd parties like Enix and Square) go over to Sony's side.  Nintendo isn't stupid, they aren't going to make the same mistake twice.  Sony will definitely get a chunk of the handheld market, but Nintendo will win out in the end.

I will admit that the one thing about Nokia's handheld that is N-Gaging  (me am funny, haha!), is its Bluetooth online capabilities.  Being able to use your handheld and connect to another handheld user far away to play a game is an exciting possibility.  It is a capability that I hope Nintendo adopts for its next version of Gameboy.  If they don't but Sony does, there will be a great handheld war and I honestly think that Sony will win out in the end.  That's just my honest opinion.

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Nintendo Gaming / "Game Boy is for 10-year-olds..."

« on: June 11, 2003, 02:59:26 PM »

This guy has no idea what he is going up against, read this