There Is No Chance In Hell Sony's PSP Will Come Close To the Success Of The GBA!

["The Game"Evolution]

Nintendo: 20 Million GBAs sold in U.S.

Japanese industry titan trumpets the key to its success-the best-selling Game Boy Advance.

Today, Nintendo announced its most successful product has hit a major milestone. According to Reuters, the Japanese game giant has now sold more than 20 million Game Boy Advance and Game Boy Advance SP handheld game systems in the United States. The original GBA was released in June 2001, with the $99 GBA SP debuting last March. The GBA SP currently retails for $99, while the original GBA sells for around $69.

Nintendo claims the GBAs' performance is the best of any of its handhelds. The original Game Boy and the Game Boy Color sold only 2.4 million and 14.3 million respective units in their first two-and-a-half years on the market.

By Tor Thorsen, GameSpot [POSTED: 02/11/04 03:17 PM]

I think its safe to say that Sony should pull the plug on releasing the PSP while they still can.The GBA is the undisputed king of handheld consoles.Its as simple as that.

[Gadfly2317]

Nintendo: 20 Million GBAs sold in U.S.

Japanese industry titan trumpets the key to its success-the best-selling Game Boy Advance.

Today, Nintendo announced its most successful product has hit a major milestone. According to Reuters, the Japanese game giant has now sold more than 20 million Game Boy Advance and Game Boy Advance SP handheld game systems in the United States. The original GBA was released in June 2001, with the $99 GBA SP debuting last March. The GBA SP currently retails for $99, while the original GBA sells for around $69.

Nintendo claims the GBAs' performance is the best of any of its handhelds. The original Game Boy and the Game Boy Color sold only 2.4 million and 14.3 million respective units in their first two-and-a-half years on the market.

By Tor Thorsen, GameSpot [POSTED: 02/11/04 03:17 PM]

I think its safe to say that Sony should pull the plug on releasing the PSP while they still can.The GBA is the undisputed king of handheld consoles.Its as simple as that.

Nintendo has done so-so with the Gamecube and next generation will be even harder, so Nintendo needs all the revenue it can get from its hand-held units.

The PSP--if it ends up being as powerful as touted--may actually sell enough units at $300 for them to be able to drop the price pretty quickly. If in a year they get it down to $150 and it really is close to as powerful as PS2 and has mini-disc capability, who wouldn't want to be able to play Resident Evil or Final Fantasy on the bus or subway going to work--and just plug in a pair of headphones for CD quality surround sound. It may not destroy the kids market with durable cartridges, but I'd love to have high-end disc based portable entertainment, and I'm not even that big a fan of hand-helds (I do most of my GBA gaming with a GBA Player.)

And Sony may have other surprises. Those Mini-discs may not be able to hold full movies, but its possible that a market might arise for putting Anime out on mini discs. And what kid wouldn't love a portable system if it not only played games, but cartoons as well?

["The Game"Evolution]

Nintendo has done so-so with the Gamecube and next generation will be even harder, so Nintendo needs all the revenue it can get from its hand-held units.

The PSP--if it ends up being as powerful as touted--may actually sell enough units at $300 for them to be able to drop the price pretty quickly. If in a year they get it down to $150 and it really is close to as powerful as PS2 and has mini-disc capability, who wouldn't want to be able to play Resident Evil or Final Fantasy on the bus or subway going to work--and just plug in a pair of headphones for CD quality surround sound. It may not destroy the kids market with durable cartridges, but I'd love to have high-end disc based portable entertainment, and I'm not even that big a fan of hand-helds (I do most of my GBA gaming with a GBA Player.)

And Sony may have other surprises. Those Mini-discs may not be able to hold full movies, but its possible that a market might arise for putting Anime out on mini discs. And what kid wouldn't love a portable system if it not only played games, but cartoons as well?

Everything thats going to be in the PSP sounds pretty impressive,however the price alone is going to turn alot of consumers noses straight up before even giving it a chance.Other than that I think the games on the GBA clearly is light years ahead of whatever Sony can bring to the table for the PSP.

[Renzatic Gear]

The PSP doesn't have a chance in hell of taking the throne from the GBA, but it does have a very good chance of taking a large enough chunk of the market to sit comfortably.

If anything it'll be Sony's foothold in the handheld arena.

["The Game"Evolution]

The PSP doesn't have a chance in hell of taking the throne from the GBA, but it does have a very good chance of taking a large enough chunk of the market to sit comfortably.

If anything it'll be Sony's foothold in the handheld arena.

I mean right now the GBA has games good enough to go against game consoles.What games on the PSP could possibly be able to hold its own against GBA gold mines like Metroid and Castlevania? The PSP might sell 500,000 units worldwide.I dont see it selling up to a million.But I could be wrong.

[Renzatic Gear]

Isn't it rumored that the PSP is gonna have a Final Fantasy available for it at launch? That alone could skyrocket it's sales pretty quickly.

[trebor]

What I'm expecting to happen is that a week before the PSP is supposed to launch, Sony will come out and be like "Well...we couldn't pack all the features in we wanted to and keep it at the same price, so we'll just take out the PS2 quality graphics, the MP3 player, and the Bluetooth."

Very much like how Sony cut half the features of the PSX right before launch and kept the same pricepoint. Sony likes to overstate what their products do ahead of time to build anticipation, and then drop the reality bomb right before launch.

Good ol' Sony.

["The Game"Evolution]

What I'm expecting to happen is that a week before the PSP is supposed to launch, Sony will come out and be like "Well...we couldn't pack all the features in we wanted to and keep it at the same price, so we'll just take out the PS2 quality graphics, the MP3 player, and the Bluetooth."

Very much like how Sony cut half the features of the PSX right before launch and kept the same pricepoint. Sony likes to overstate what their products do ahead of time to build anticipation, and then drop the reality bomb right before launch.

Good ol' Sony.

It looks like that tradition continues to this day.But then again Nintendo had done it too.Especially at the beginning of the GC's launch.Remember when they showed pics of what Zelda and Metroid was"supposed"to look like? Then months later after everyone than pre-ordered the GC they turned around and said this what Zelda and Metroid will really look like.Yes I know you remember Trebor.I know I do.So Sony is indeed guilty.But so is Nintendo.Good ol' Sony.Same ol' Nintendo.

[Ghost]

Everything thats going to be in the PSP sounds pretty impressive,however the price alone is going to turn alot of consumers noses straight up before even giving it a chance.Other than that I think the games on the GBA clearly is light years ahead of whatever Sony can bring to the table for the PSP.
I agree. And, Sony are completey dead on handheld with the DS on the way.

[Shira]

Sony has an odd way of doing that. I heard they boasted pretty loudly at E3 about the PSP, but what I have heard from some friends is that by the time it actually comes out the graphics are going to be mediocore, not quite up to the real PS2. But that's just what I heard.

What I know is that I'm not buying that thing if it costs $300 until they decide to drop the price by at least half or unless I hear better things from it.