Originally posted by Samas-adian
Check Gamespot. Check this article. http://hardware.gamespot.com/Story-ST-11721-1344-4-4-xIll give you an segment of it.
"Based on our estimates and a few battery-draining tests, Ridge Racers seems to last somewhere between 90 minutes and three hours. Playing with the wireless networking switch flipped on will also further reduce your battery life."
Throughout history, any handheld device that has low battery life has failed. Game Gear, Atari Lynx, Turbo Graphix Express had better screens and better hardware than gameboy. But they never caught on.
Battery life is key to an handheld.
And defects show how crappy a manufactuer is.
If PSP is labelled as a defect product, the general public who Sony is going for is not going to buy it over the DS, or GBA SP. Nintendo's dont have the shortcomings of thier console breathren. It has a huge library of games.
same here, so far i've only played the ds and i really enjoy it, i dont care about psp's other additions besides just playing games because thats all i really care for....i just hope that it doesnt have defects, although it most likely will, handhelds and cd's sort of scares me hehe, i mean look at the ps2, it had its share of defects and it isnt even a handheld
Ever heard of the infamous Disc Read Error? You know, the message almost every PS2 owner is bound to get during their PS2's lifetime?
It has crippled almost every first-batch PS2. I myself have had 2 PS2's break on me now, despite treating them like fragile glass ornaments.
I am now on my third PS2 (the slimline one - fingers crossed these are better). Most of my friends have gone through 2 or 3 PS2's each.
PS2's are literally shit incarnate (build-wise).
Being the best console has nothing to do with which hardware is better. PS2 is the worst hardware out of 3, but its doing the best. The orginial Gameboy sold over 150 million units still on the preexisting hardware while other handhelds have more colours, better screen, could watch tv. In the end of the consoles, its all about the games, thats it.
Originally posted by Arsenal
This is kinda off topic but I think Genesis consoles were always better then the competition. Look at this highly scientific chart I made:
Genesis/NES
Game Gear/GameBoy
Sega Saturn/Super Nintendo
Sega Dreamcast/PS1/N64
the genesis competed with the Super nintendo and i don think S.nintendo
Originally posted by Arsenal
This is kinda off topic but I think Genesis consoles were always better then the competition. Look at this highly scientific chart I made:
Genesis/NES
Game Gear/GameBoy
Sega Saturn/Super Nintendo
Sega Dreamcast/PS1/N64
the dreamcast never clonked out on me and gave me "disc read error", oh yeah and it had online capabilities at the start of its launch, i remember playing phantasy star and unreal for hours online, even when ps2/xbox launched they didnt show off their online-play for a while, and not to mention it costs alot
Omg I really wish that when it released this wouldnt happen becuz Im planning to get one.
http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/01/24/news_6116985.html
Man... chalk up another defect.
Short battery life
Dead pixels
UMD shuriken
And now an unresponsive square.
Nikkei Business reported that, to date, .6 percent of the 800,000 shipped units have been returned to Sony for repair. Kutaragi was unapologetic about the issue: "This is the design that we came up with. There may be people that complain about its usability, but that's something which users and game software developers will have to adapt to. I didn't want the PSP's LCD screen to become any smaller than this, nor did I want its machine body to become any larger.
This is termed "bad business." In exchange for looks, the designer sacrificed usability. Is the aesthetic really more important than basic technological ability?
Offering additional testimony praising the handheld, Kutaragi said, "I believe we made the most beautiful thing in the world. Nobody would criticize a renowned architect's blueprint that the position of a gate is wrong. It's the same as that."
Self-praise and inaccurate comparison in the same sentence. Wow. If you ask me, the off-set button is more like putting the handle and lock on the wall so you can have a nice big design on the door.