The sales of the PS2 show for something. People wouldnt be buying them if they knew they were rubbish. There buying them cause there good
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The sales of the PS2 show for something. People wouldnt be buying them if they knew they were rubbish. There buying them cause there good
Lol i am not being heavy handed, my friend's PS2 after being tilted once stopped working and he had to get a new one. Its just true, its not like every PS2 has that problem but to be able to see enough people have it means that there are product defects on some. Since it was suppose to be able to tilt veritcally but for some PS2s it fails to and breaks on you (on enough PS2s to be talked about) shows something of poor manufacturing. I am not being hard, its just true.
The only reason why people got Sony is because Nintendo fouled up bad with N64 and PSX overtook them by them making more buisness deals with different 3rd party game developers. And i dont blame the developers too, Cart or CD? CD of course. Sony themselves never made any real ground breaking games or have anything by themselves that is near the power of Mario or Zelda.
Sales show nothing...if PS2 did not have the third party games as it does now, i would not have even touched it and stayed purely to Nintendo. Not that Nintendo has been perfect either, but i like their games that they made themselves too. Third party games are everything, Sony just made the right buisness deals. How else would a machine that is so limited in processing power (FFXI is a good example of it) be the top of the heap?
*Agrees with sephex too*
There has been plenty of games that sold a lot in the past, despite the game being complete garbage (see: Enter The Matrix).Quote:
Originally Posted by gibbi8
Well there a few exeptions.
But Enter The Matrix werent that bad.
OK it was
Sony surely isn't doing very good so far with the PSP sales lol
I live in the area around Chicago, and I have friends that work at best buy and target... and according to them, then PSP is selling like crap.
Out of the 50 units each store got in... they've only sold like 10-15 in the past 2 days lol...
where as the DS sold out almost imediatly. lol
And while the PSP may over power the DS in graphics... the DS can do just about everything and more the PSP can! It can play MP3s and movies, although official ways to do that wont be out for a few months. lol
The DS has wireless internet, and also has downloadable game abilities... I just went to a game exibit at a museum in Chicago, and they had a thing setup there that let me download a cool little mini game onto my DS ^_^/
The DS is supposed to have some kind of wireless connectivity to the Revolution that will allow automatic updates as well, that will give the DS more features, that arn't dependent on game carts.
And to top it off, its HALF the price of the PSP =P and thats what will be the major selling point for the majority of the gamers out there!
In the history of handheld gaming, there have always been better units out there than the GB, but because of cost and battery life, they have all failed in the shadow of the affordable well built Nintedo handhelds. =P
Not to mention the new bugs the American PSPs are getting! OMG... my friend bought his on the day it came out... and returned it 5 times in the 2 days, cause each new one he got had at least 2 dead pixels in the screen... after the 5th one, he gave up and just got his money back.
And I'm sure we'll see the same flaws that the Japanese experianced! (bubbles in the screen, discs not staying in under stress, analog sticks falling off... ect...)
Did you know that Sony in Japan, since the PSP came out, isn't giving anyone their money back for the PSPs? I think I also heard its hell to even get one replaced... bad sony... bad...
The PSP is also built like crap! I highly doubt it will hold up to the "little brother test" let alone a drop on a sidewalk.
sorry... I had to let off some steam tward the PSP... stupid G4 tv has been bias all day and greatly favors the PSP over the DS (no doubt because of bribes from Sony) I keep seeing them compare the DS and the PSP, based solely on the graphics alone, and hype all the PSP's features, while not even talking about what the DS is capable of...v.v
(wow ^_^;; long post... I hope I didn't come off too anti-sony LOL I have a lot of sony products, and I'd get a PSP, if it was only cheaper and less buggy... and if sony wasn't so evil recently XD)
1 or 2 pixels out of 130560 isn't alot. Your friend is just too picky.
For those of you who doubt the PSP battery life:
http://psp.ign.com/articles/574/574557p1.html?fromint=1
If you still don't like the battery life, just know that its being used to leave the DS in the dust technologically.
Little brother test? Who in the world (literally) would let there little brother come within a 50 foot radius? Who would be without the protective case on the sidewalk? And if you say "what if its not in the case. What if the are using it on the sidewalk." To that I say: Why would you be using it while you're walking?
Sorry...I had to let off some steam towards the Nintendo fanpeople. Touche.
Me too (I live in Chicago Hts.). Anyway, I don't know how it is selling around here, but I will find out soon.Quote:
Originally Posted by Daggers64
Wow... only 3-5 hours average battery life? that sucks... I get AT LEAST 10 hours of battery out of my DS, no matter what I do on it! o.o
If they can't get 8+ hours out of a handheld, then the technology needs to be tweaked down to be more energy efficient...
And things like that happen! If you buy something like that, siblings tend to sneak in your room and take it, especially if you dont let them play with it... and if your siblings are winny... and say your 14 and got one for your bday... your little brother starts crying and buggin your parents and such, until your parents make you share it... *shudders*
Also, you can't honestly expect that people arn't gonna bring it with them when they go out... I'm just saying, surely people out there are gonna be playing it, above a hard surface... maybe even indoors... and they will accedently drop it... either from being bumped into or distractions, or something... and well, the moment that thing hits the floor, say good by to that $250 investment!
My friend's little sister flushed his GB down the toilet once, out of anger... and of course the familly had no idea what was cloging it... so the poored draino down it... when that didn't work, somehow they found out the GB was down there... and after all that, it still worked fine!! =P
You dont even want to know what my sibblings have done to my personal/expensive belongings... >_< Kids are cruel... even when they dont mean to be/ accedents happen...
Er there are tons of kids that will get a handheld and walk with it down a sidewalk playing with their parents around them..>_>
I would let my brother play. What kind of bad brother am i? I dont see your logic here. To be a good product it must be good for just about EVERY kind of situation possible...
I'm not a mean sister or anything, I just monitor my sibblings when they play with my things, cause I've experianced one too many accedents. lol
Its actually better to let them try things out, so they dont try it behind your back... cause thats never good. lol
At least, thats my experiance. XD
Yeah my GBC got soaked and it still works. But I haven't played it for 2 years.
If little siblings start whining, buy them a DS, and say the PSP is for older kids. I'm sure the Nintendo game library is suitable for them.
The lowest battery life statistic is 2 hours and 46 minutes. Please use accurate statistics. Fanpeople can be so biased.
By the way, who would flush $250 dollars down a toilet. And dropping a glass vase from a height of 4 feet (about where your hands would be) doesn't break it on a carpeted surface. I doubt a handheld made from plastic would either.
I didn't say you wouldn't go outside with it. I'm saying you're going to put it in its case before you do. If you don't, you're asking to fork over another $250. I can expect a "Well, you don't have to put a DS in a case when you go out! Its SOOOO durable." I didn't know that putting something in its case was such an arduous task.
Funny.Quote:
My friend's little sister flushed his GB
Lol picking on grammar is like weak..>_>
Lol i am sure that as long as EVERYONE out there says it to their siblings the PSP will become the best portable game system out there...>_> What are you trying to say? that doesnt say anything...-_-
Who would flush anything thats a gaming system down the toilet? It happens plain and simple...and theres been reports on it.Quote:
By the way, who would flush $250 dollars down a toilet. And dropping a glass vase from a height of 4 feet (about where your hands would be) doesn't break it on a carpeted surface. I doubt a handheld made from plastic would either.
The point is not putting in the case, but needing it in the first place means that the handheld is not that durable..
wow you really are an idiot arn't you... "My friend's little sister flushed his GB" HIS refers to the friend, not the sister...
If your gonna insult me because of my grammer in sentences and you aren't gonna come up with decent arguments supporting your point, then go waste your money... and I hope your PSP gets run over by a train.
ANYWAY... I'm not a fan of Nintendo... I only own one Nintendo product, the DS.
I'm just saying that Nintendo's DS is a better product, at least until the GBA 2 XD and I don't beleive the PSP will do that good... I'm pretty sure it will go the way most of Nintendo's handheld competitors went.
And yes, a case is a good idea for transporting a handheld system... but most casts don't let you play the game while its still in the case! You need to bring it out to play it! =P Plus most people don't bother with cases, even when they should... I've seen people with import PSPs store them in their pockets, unprotected.
AND being indoors doesn't mean you have a carpet!!!! >__> I was talking about hard floors! I dont think anything would break that easilly... But if the PSP is droped from 4ft, I'm sure it wouldn't walk away with out damage... and the harder the floor, the worse damage...
Sony products have always been nice, dont get me wrong, I'm a bigger fan of Sony in some ways than I am of Nintendo. Half the electronics in my house are probably sony brand LOL... And they work well when treated right... but drop any of them, or wack them with something, and they're as good as dead... And the PSP is something that NEEDS to be strong, because handhelds get a lot more physical abuse than my DVD player does.
On more than one occasion, Nintendo products have withstanded the worse odds and still comeout to play games... lol
There is a video out there somewhere, where some guys tie the GameCube to their truck and drive it around like that... afterward it still played mario sunshine. xD And if you really want proof, go to G4's site and see what "Morgan Van Webb" lol did to the PS2, GC, and Xbox... XD
wow... LOL I usually get involved in these kinds of arguments :p
Yea, honestly, if the PSP needs a case, it can't be very strong! lol
square_is_the_best just stop, your only digging your self into a deeper hole. rolf
I want a PSP just as much as any other gamer out there. But just like most gamers, I can't afford that $250 price tag, at least not unless the product actually is worth that much.
Frankly, I haven't seen it for sale anywhere online, where it isn't a package deal with like 4 or 5 games, that ends up costing 500 something, and thats just rediculious!
Maybe if Sony lowers the price, of the PSP and games... and they fix the errors/bugs/defects that I've witnessed first hand. Then it has a chance to beat Nintendo out of the handheld market. (Though I dont think thats gonna happen... especially not if this GBA2 thing comes out lol, cause thats probably gonna be even better than the DS.)
OH, and if that were me, 2 pixels is definantly enough to warrent me to take it back... When I buy a product I expect it to be perfect when its brand new!! I don't want dead pixels in the middle my game's screen.=P
square_is_the_best I totallt agree with you.
Has any of you played the PSP. I mean stop judging it without even playing it. The DS is cheaper yer but you get more out of the PSP.
Just wait a little time before buying one and it would be cheaper by then. With that pixel problem. Aint happened to mine so I dont care.