I have to say that I was duly impressed by my first look at the Sony PSP today. The last prototype iteration was impressive, but I think the final version is vastly superior. The Nintendo DS should sell well, but I can't see it doing the kind of business the PSP should generate. The few titles announced thus far, including Gran Turismo and Metal Gear Solid games, have gotten me extremely impatient...

The PSP's gonna dominate. Have you seen that screen?? It doesn't need 2.

It's going to be the same as the consoles: the Nintendo DS is going to be for kids, and the PSP is going to be for everybody else.

I just hope that they can maximize the PSP's battery life. And I've heard that it will play movies. Does anyone know if those will be full-length feature films?? (DVD equivalents??) And if so, are they going to be priced like DVDs?? I'm definitely intrigued. Sony is good.

Check out the hi-res pictures if you haven't seen them yet:

http://www.etoychest.org/news.php?extend.467

2.5 hours for movies.
5 hours for games.
10 hours for mp3s.

The PSPs battery life is not so good. It looks pretty, but there's something frightfully ironic and scary about playing GT4 on a handheld in a car.

who wants to play replications of ps2 games on a handheld? i'd rather play them on the tv

psp will be too expensive and too battery hungry. it should sell well, but I'll be getting a DS

The problem with all of first generation games is that they were not intended for the PSP, but started out as PS2 games and are being ported over. How else do you think they got so many games ready so fast? So it really won't be for a year or so after the PSP is out until there are games released that are made specifically for the PSP and then it will not feel like just a portable PS2.

DS will dominate!!! Im afraid that Sony, though PSP is mighty impressive, will be one of those "jack-of-all-trades---master-of-none" kinds of deals. But, we must only wait and see. I do think though that Nintendo extremely innovative and imagination always beats quantity in my book!

~Eccentro

you'll keep saying that until your best friend own one. the battery life is only bad if you don't use headphones.