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The price in Japan is $185 so it costs more than the DS
This is well known already. ONE of them has to be the more expensive system. Would the DS suck just because it costs more than the PSP? No it would not. Anyway, higher quality hardware costs more to produce therefore it has to cost more to purchase.
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You need a special memory stick to save games, play MP3's, look a pics, and watch videos (other than UMD movies). A memory stick means more $$$ to spend so that takes the the price to over $200 before you even buy a game. And the only memory stick out currently is 32 MB and you can only store like 10-20 songs on 32 MB.
Everything costs money, while that may be of some concern, it's not going to matter to people that know they are going to buy it. Buying a system just to watch movies and play songs is stupid. If you're buying it for that, then you are buying it for the wrong reason. Memory Cards (in this case "sticks") have been around for years, just because they are small doesn't mean that it isn't going to get bigger, look at the DS's lineup at release. It was horrible. Anyway, companies can and probably will use problems that occured in Japanese markets to start production of items that will improve all problems they've encountered. Heck they might even begin production on a better PSP from these findings.
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Now hear is the killer, the battery life. This is the sole reason that I am not buying a PSP. It can go below 2 hours when doing multiplayer! LESS THAN 2 HOURS!!!!! When not doing multiplayer and playing a game like ridge racers, it lasts about 2 hours. If you are playing a puzzle game it could last around 6 hours. The battery life is ABSURD! Just think about that before you go buy one.
Powerful hardware that can perform multiple tasks require additional battery life. This will probably be corrected, whether by seperate items, or in the PSP in itself eventually. Maybe the battery life is telling people that they shouldn't be sitting around playing videogames all day. Who knows...
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I just saw some sales numbers from Japan for the DS and PSP. Now granted the DS had a ten day head start but well, even if it didn't have that head start, it would still be winning. The numbers were like 850k for DS and 225k for DS.
Sales mean nothing as far as "Which Console is better". All that determines is that there are more people interested in the DS and that there are more fanboys with the money to buy it at a specific point in time. The fact that the PSP sold less means that there are less people interested in it and there were less fanboys with enough money to buy it (not less fanboys mind you).
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I am just going to leave you with one little fact. The gameboy has crushed 12 straight competitors and EVERY single competitors had better graphics. Right now the PSP is looking a lot like the Game Gear. Better graphics but terrible battery life and we all know how that turned out...
Twelve!? I'd like to see that list as I can only count about five or six. I'm guessing most of those were never released in America, and seeing as we're talking about the American release, I don't think those really count. Better graphics yes, but did they have better games? Of course the Gameboy has been selling better, for the reason mentioned above and the fact that people can't seem to break away from their roots (which can be good and bad). I don't think the PSP
can flop as badly as you say. With so many fanatics willing and ready to buy the PSP, it may sell horribly or not as well as the DS, but to fail worse than the GameGear it almost impossible for the PSP. I think that supply and demand will take its toll here.
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I know that all of that was choppy, but I made all the points that I intended to. Either way, I don't intend to buy either of them since pocket gaming isn't my thing. Just thought I'd defend the side that was being attacked by statistics.
Tazzaler, I also think that it was unwise to bring this up in a topic especially for the DS. Possibly a seperate topic for the PSP would be better than clogging up the DS topic with this stuff. (Not trying to take your job Mods, just offering a suggestion.
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