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General Gaming / PlayStation Portable, a serious contender to GBA?
« on: May 15, 2003, 04:05:56 PM »
I've thought about using discs in a portable system...while at first it seems like a terrible idea, it's not the worst thing possible. After all, portable CD players work well enough through jostling, so that's not a true issue.
The real problem is the whole battery issue. It does not seem feasible to keep a system alive for a reasonable time on any battery, with all the features they're putting into it.
Simply, it's got a lot of technical hurdles to overcome. Batteries, price, medium, portability. But if Sony is able to pull it all together, Nintendo could really be in trouble. As I see it, it could open up a whole new market in portable gaming-people who buy XBoxes and PS2's, but not a GameBoy Advance because it's not "cool."
The real problem is the whole battery issue. It does not seem feasible to keep a system alive for a reasonable time on any battery, with all the features they're putting into it.
Simply, it's got a lot of technical hurdles to overcome. Batteries, price, medium, portability. But if Sony is able to pull it all together, Nintendo could really be in trouble. As I see it, it could open up a whole new market in portable gaming-people who buy XBoxes and PS2's, but not a GameBoy Advance because it's not "cool."