Nintendo DS sales expectations

[AstroBlue]

To bad for you.

To Bad,
for you:



Love,
Remnant

[Drewbacca]

To bad for you.

Yes, it is.

[remnant]

gim·mick ( P ) Pronunciation Key (gmk)
n.

A device employed to cheat, deceive, or trick, especially a mechanism for the secret and dishonest control of gambling apparatus.

An innovative or unusual mechanical contrivance; a gadget.

An innovative stratagem or scheme employed especially to promote a project: an advertising gimmick.

A significant feature that is obscured, misrepresented, or not readily evident; a catch.

A small object whose name does not come readily to mind.

The is not a gimmick, and only falls under the second definition, but cant any thing even the simple GB fall under that category?

In fact, it seems as if the PSP is more gimmicky. Def 3 fits it right. OBscured....that sounds good for the PSP doesnt it? Roll it off your tounge then say PSP, its like peanut and jelly....just made to be. The PSP to me seems like a scheme, to help Sony not make money, but test the waters out for future products. We all know all three companies want to have their systems to connect to something, be it PC, GBA, and other future products.

I remember Sony stating they wanted to integrate the PSP and PS3 into future Sony products, so that would give you more incentive to buy their products. That only makes sense when you look at the PSP. Its so damn greedy. It isnt even a self substaiing organism gaming wise, its a parasite (Thats right KASSED) it obvously can not live by itself, which any portable with its 100+ dollar price tag should be able to do.

It says its a gaming machine, and I dont want to spend another paragraph talking about how its basically a cross between a PS1 and PS2 games(They say its capable of PS2 graphics, but remember Sony said the PS2 could do 75 million pixels, while the GC could do 12. but they didnt tell you the GC was in real time, while the PS2 was not. Not to mention at E3 the games were not running on a real PSP and that Sony told developers to dumb down the game...Anyone up for a game of metal gear poker??? Ill deal)

So not only do I not trust the gameplay, but lets look at its parsitic features. The Mp3 player, oh guess what, it doubles as a memory stick. So not only do you NEED to save your data on a portable memstick(on a portable machine???) but to get the full potential, you must use a PS type stick or one from Sony that has DUO on it. Not to mention, Sony released a I pod like thing, that has more batterylife than the Ipod or the PSP and much more space than the PSP and hours.

Now onto its parasitic movie capabilites. Lets see, DVDs cost around 5-20 dollars depending on if they are new or old. And you can rent some at blockbuster for around the same price depending on your package. Now, I do not buy DVDs, they are expensive, but that is still a decent price you see. Dvds can be played again and again on your DVD player on your HUGE TV. It wont run out of juice or something like that. Now the PSP has its own format, UMD. Whichs stands for universal, and it is, as long asit holds less than a DVD, the movies on it are hand picked from Sony, and of course you can not copy or burn them even though it is your property, Sony wouldnt want you to back up your copy. In case of fire, Dont break a glass, break the bank and buy more UMD movies.

After all that, you know the battery is weak also. So what does Sony do?
Give you a free battery to compensate for its pitiful charge time? Of course not, you need to buy your own and it will cost 50 dollars. Thats like buying a backup Halo2 or Metroid Prime 2 in case the other just stops spinning....
So the battery to last roughly 3 hours, greatly takes away from the portablilty of the handheld. I know people will say, *But Maw....I dont need three hours thats more than enough!!* Shut up. How can you seriously settle for three hours max of battery? Thats like having your GBA on red all the time. So instead of relaxing and throwing your feet up, you gotta think....damn can I enter this room and beat the boss in time...or will the load time totally drain the battery and make me do it all over again? With a portable, you should not worry about its battery life, not at all. What if you had a cell phone that had a 3 hour charge max, but if you make more than 5 calls the battery dies? Are you going to bring your charger with you to school and charge it while talking or while doing homework or laps in the gym? Whats the point of having a cell phone or any portable device if its constantly tethered to a wall for juice, which then keeps you still....is it really a portable anymore?

So lets recap. The PSP is a gimmick straight up. It has been but out there so you can buy more Sony products, will it work, yes, will it be a smashing success no. Why will it work? Brand name recognition. We have all bought something out of impulse that sucked because we knew what is was and felt we needed it. Sure its okay to spoil yourself, but by going near this dirty system it will latch onto your wallet and make you buy Sony.

It is a gimmick people, get over it. It has no function that supports itself, its a never ending parasitic cycle.

The games are played only on PSP not the PS2, even though they are basically PS2 games. The games were shown to have X amount of battery life, only if you use around 60% of the PSP's volume, resolution...blah whatever. Then you must go out and buy memory sticks to save your data. And while you are at it, you might as well buy another one to fit music on because it will not be sufficient. Then to get the FULLLLL power out of your PSP you need to buy a UMD, remember, only for PSP and its only movies Sony picks that you can not burn....at least not yet. Money is just flying towards Sonys mouth, operation gimme. Lets see the total price of these portable systems out right now.

GBA. 50-80. Extra batteries...like 5 bucks or a long lasting charge.
Link cable-10-20
Game or two. 40-60.

Total around 180 with tax.

DS 150 with a 6-10 hour charge, good, not awesome like the GBA where you can forget for a week or two, but good.
game or two. 70
(free downloadable games with your buddy -40)

Total around 280 with tax. But if you and your friends buy opposite games, you can save money by basically sharing the same game while playing at the same time with X amount of games



PSP. 180
Game or two 70-100?? (Will they be at GBA price, or PS2 price?)
memstick =20apx
UMD one or two ..30 (Going by DVD prices today)
extra battery pack 50 (needed to make it portable)

400 including tax.

[Roufuss]

So who wrote that for you?

Because you're too much of an idiot to have wrote it yourself.

[toxic]

Gimmick: Your account. Give it up.

[remnant]

I wrote it and by your lack of your counter argument I have owned you. oh well

[Cowutopia]

I don't read the one-sentence remnant posts, let alone the page-long remnant posts. Go Nintendo.

[Rocca]

I wrote it and by your lack of your counter argument I have owned you. oh well

Next time, just give us a bit of background on the article, it's not a question of me or anyone here being lazy, but it's more interesting to whoever's reading this thread, instead of site hopping for the info. Nonetheless, try to keep your own thread on topic.

[Roufuss]

I wrote it and by your lack of your counter argument I have owned you. oh well

lol!

After showing us all for the past month or so that you have the education of a 4th grader, the intelligence of a 1st grader, and the social skills of a retard, you expect us to believe you've written a fully fleshed out diatribe that was the least bit intelligent?

No, seriously, who wrote it, you're far too stupid to write something like that.

[George]

http://shawn.redhive.com/nintendo/