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Let's hope the DS doesn't have the inexcusably shitty sound processing the GBA had.
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Hamel wrote:Let's hope the DS doesn't have the inexcusably shitty sound processing the GBA had.
That was one reason I never bought one.

That and I knew Ninty would bring a better version out a month after my purchase so I gave up. Anything to challenge their monopoly here would be fun and the PSP may just be it given the Game Gear and Lynx failures despite being superior.
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The sound processing was only half the GBA's aural problems.

The speaker was the rest of them, it was utter.wank.
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Yeah, with headphones, the sound on the GBA is actually halfway decent.
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Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Yeah, with headphones, the sound on the GBA is actually halfway decent.
Unless a game used compressed audio samples/streams, music sounded like the bastard child of the gameboy and snes. It used fucking square and triangle waves just like the pre-'90 systems :x
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Jesus! I just got a PS2 a couple of months ago and now Sony's actually releasing this? A gameboy with PS2 graphics? I feel ripped off... :(
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Ace Pace wrote:My bad, watching GS live, it seems some games running, I don't remember names. But why music\video\games? Why are they going the bloated N-gage way?
Why not? The same hardware used to play games could also be used for playing movies or music, so why not leave that ability in instead of cripling the system for no good reason by restricting it to games only?
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For one Sony plans to release FFVII: Advent Children on both DVD and the PSP's format.
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Shroom Man 777 wrote:Jesus! I just got a PS2 a couple of months ago and now Sony's actually releasing this? A gameboy with PS2 graphics? I feel ripped off... :(
The MSRP on that fucking thing will probably be around $400-$500.
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I think that's a little pessemistic, isn't it?
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Daltonator wrote: The MSRP on that fucking thing will probably be around $400-$500.
Not a chance. The thing will be $300 on the high side and $200 on the low side. Sony has said as much.

However, given the new competition (and given that Sony said they would make a profit on the PSP at $300) I would say that the PSP will probably debut at $200-$250 with sharp price cuts as needed. Sony isn't afraid to dump this thing to compete with Nintendo, they wrote the rules on how to sell hardware at a loss remember?
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