Smart Idea Sony, Don't Tackle the Big N's portable head on.

[the Gray]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/68 ... html">Sony Portable news via the Register</a>

Smart Idea Sony, Don't Tackle the Big N's portable head on.</div>

[Eric]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>I still have 2 concerns and one minor: 1) The Price(Gotta be affordable), 2) Power Source(Batteries? Battery Pack? Rechargable system). And if it's gonna play movies how big is the screen? :)</div>

[the Gray]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>It's Going to be more expensive than the SP, by how much? I guessing lower than the N-Gage, more than $150. Power source has already been announced as a rechargeable Lithium I believe with 8-10 hours of life. Big thing is, they're trying to find a 'niche' outside the Gameboy's.</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>The real question is how the public will view it, will it be different enough than the gameboy to warrant everything? Also, will the GBA2 present any real competition?</div>

[the Gray]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I don't know what to think of it really. I find the idea of a Movie/Music/Game player intriguing, but I won't shell out $200 plus for it.</div>

[Eric]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>GBA2? If they market it as an portable playstation people will view it as sweet. :P</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>Sweet indeed.</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Ask NEC and Sega, you don't really want that. It's ALL about the price when it comes to portability</div>

[Eric]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Where'd the GBA 2 think come from, is what I wanted to ask ya.</div>

[Eric]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Oh, and I didn't mean it Sega Nomad style portable playstation, I meant it like ummmm, "Wow Nintendo is putting out the GBA! It's like you're caring around a portable Super Nintendo!" Something like that see?</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>If Nintendo sees the need, they'll release another upgraded GB, especially if the PSP is gonna present any direct competition to it</div>

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I'm actually looking forward to this system, even if I am one out of like 10 people who buy it.</div>

[the Gray]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I'll be another one, who are the other 8....</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>Make me number THREE! I'm sure this will be a hot seller.</div>

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Eric, G-man, Gabe, Tycho, and the editors of IGN PSX =P</div>

[Eric]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>How'd I get involed?! :P</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Dear God, man. You don't think I'd add that to my collection?</div>

[the Gray]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>You? Mister anti-Sony? No</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>As the only person at this board to actually see my collection, you should know better than to think I'm anti-Sony....</div>

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>You'd buy it, admit it!</div>

[the Gray]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Lol, yeah. But really, it's your least favourite of the 3 major companies. I mean, it represents maybe 5% of your total Gargantuan collection.</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Actually, the Xbox has fallen behind this year. There's been very little of interest for it. PS2 is steady as always</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>Best combo system : PS2, GC and GB:SP. Forget Xblah.</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Too much good stuff already to completely ignore, but it's pretty slow right now</div>