PSP Delayed Into 2005?

Thanks to the numerous readers who alerted us to the Gamespot article mentioning that the PSP may be delayed until next year. This analysis comes from games industry analysts and is the result of Sony's game title weakness and battery issues. David Jenkins at Gamasutra has additional analysis as well.

Re:They can't wait...

[HAKdragon]

Look at the Sega handhelds. They've always been a much better product than the gameboy, but they still couldn't crack it.

Sega has only released one handheld, the Gamegear.

Re:They can't wait...

[d3kk]

Wrong. They released the Nomad in 1995, which was essentially a portable Genesis.

Re:They can't wait...

[Fred Or Alive]

In the US they also released the Genesis (Mega Drive) Nomad, basically a portable Mega Drive. It also sucked batteries like there's no tomorrow. It apparently has a nice screen. Another high quality product from the Sega of America useless variations on the Mega Drive (sorry, Hardware Development) division.[1]

[1] Well, apart from the not-Dreamcast, which led to Sega being sued by 3DFX, and EA (a 3DFX shareholder) not making games for Dreamcast.

Re:DS

[alphaseven]

In the console market, the PS2 was able to gain a huge advantage by being first out.

On the other hand, the Dreamcast came out before the PS2 and was doing okay at first till the PS2 came out. And the SNES was successful despite the Genesis having a big head start. In consoles being first isn't a guarantee of success. Still, I think the DS is looking good.

Re:ladies and gentlemen..

[devmage]

No the Xbox only became successful because M$ threw hundreds of millions of dollars at it till it had some sort of success. This included taking huge losses on hardware, buying up game companies and pouring the money into advertising. Devmage

Re:ladies and gentlemen..

[PablosBrain]

With now over 500 cars and 100 tracks in Gran Turismo 4 it is more than a marginal improvement. Improvements take place in more than the "visual" appeal of a game. Games don't always need more polys to be better. The physics engine, the game play, the variation... and most of all... Gran Turismo 4 will include online play for up to 6 drivers at a time! Now that is what almost every Gran Turismo player has been waiting for!

Re:ladies and gentlemen..

[Anonymous Coward]

Unfortunately it won't [slashdot.org] have online play. As a long time GT fan, GT1 was my reason for buying PS1 and GT3 for PS2). Its funny how Sony and Polyphony Digital can hype a feature so much and just drop it all together and just squeeze money out of fans across several releases. Now PSP may be pushing back its release date as well, jeez. Unfortunately XBox 2 is starting to look like my next console purchase. But I'm sure that will be pushed back as well.

Re:Not supprised

[Joe5678]

Just to clarify, it was NOT delayed. Somebody is speculating that it will be delayed, which is probably true, but not yet fact.

Re:They can't wait...

[Toby_Tyke]

"Atari Lynx: Poor game selection, battery life."

Plus the fact that it was the size and weight of a pair of house bricks. It was more of a laptop than a hand held. Ate through batteries like they were going out of fashion and I would just like to point out, for the record, California games was shit.

Damn. Been waiting over a decade to get that off my chest. Yes. I bought one.

Re:Range

[buffer-overflowed]

The DS has 802.11(?) WiFi and some kind of propriatary wireless connection which works up to 30 meters.