melliekins wrote:yes...that is correct...the PSP target is 18 to 34 year old males....
and since i'm female I guess I'm not in that category....wow..excluded again from the gaming world....why is it I'm the "game expert" at work???

Did I say anything about male and female?
it's too pricey for what it is...at least the DS has some uniqueness...woohoo to the touch screen..the PSP features will just cost more money...
Yes, it breaks the $200 "amount parents will pay for a toy" barrier, but again it's not geared towards children.
And I'm not really on board with the Nintendo vs microsoft vs sony thing....I do have my opinions of all 3...and I actually lean toward the PS2...the controller is the main reason
Neither am I. Software is what counts. Right now I can think of 2 games I'd want to play on the DS. I can think of about 5 that I'll want to play on the PSP.
why not play the same games on ur PS2...or the PS3 when it comes out??
Um... because the games will be exclusive to the PSP. I think that's a pretty good reason.
and just throw it in....it still took the other game companies this long to catch up to the Sega Game gear....sure it's heavy and eats batteries by today's standards but it was still WAY ahead of it's time.
The Atari Lynx and TurboXpress were way ahead of the Game Gear technologically. They didn't last that long either, due to lack of good software.
blah....I'm done...this is pointless people will buy 'em cause they're "cool" and parents will buy them for their 7 year olds without knowing anything about it or the games...just cause they asked for it...
I'm sure a lot of parents will be buying a $250 piece of hardware so that they're seven year old can take it to school and forget where they placed it.

People will buy them for one reason: games. If Sony doesn't deliver the games, they know that they'll be dead in the water. Especially with Nintendo's stranglehold on the market.