Dave Karraker, recently appointed as Sony's new senior director of corporate communications, took the time to take a knee with Gamasutra and gab gaming. At least, gaming from his company Sony's point of view. Important to people like us with the Nintendo logo etched into their underwear, however, is Mr. Karraker remarks concerning the DS.
GS: What about the handheld market, how important do you think that's going to be, going forward?
DK: I think handheld is incredibly important for us, particularly as we start developing more and more downloadable content. And I'm not just talking about games, I'm talking about entertainment content as well. Already the TiVo-to-go option for the PSP is turning into a huge hit for us, as people discover that they can take the shows they've already stored on their TiVo and put it on their PSP and while they're riding the bus to work or to school, they can watch television shows on the PSP, I mean that's huge. You can't do that on anything else.
So again, I think when you compare the two products, the Nintendo product versus our product, it's kind of apples and oranges. We're providing more of an entertainment system, and they're focused more on gaming.
Perhaps that's the issue for Sony? Is the company's lack of fresh gaming content on their system the reason why their handheld cannot seem to pull ahead? It's always been about the games and Nintendo has, along with their third-party support, proved that on the DS.
21. Seeing on how this article is now ancient I doubt anyone will read this. Oh, well.
How cute of you, Pixelator, to lump several posts together to make a generalization.
I'm no Nintendo fanboy (though I admit I was a PlayStation one) and I see myself as a general gamer such as yourself (planning on buying a PSP soon for 0rigins and XBox 360 for RE5).
"Why should I have to read these things to get to the real DS news?"
If you want REAL news you've come to the wrong place. Any reasonable person would know this is no place for hardcore facts.
"The 'fanboy' part doesn't excuse having to scroll past blog after blog of 'XXX is better than YYY'."
Oh, yes it does. It is that very "Fanboy" in the title that says, "We will be biased in our presentation of news". Just because you have this little fantasy that this is the place for pure truth does not change the fact that this isn't such a place.
"But it's fine for DS Fanboy bloggers to have a chip on their shoulders about the PSP, eh?"
It's not a f'cking chip. It's a lame attempt to fulfill the promise of the site's title. It's news spun to pleasure the fanboy.
"For those of us who like and own both to have to read?"
Here's where your chip kicks in. You come to a FANBOY site in search of unbiased, concrete facts when there are many sites already doing so. Why don't you leave a place you dislike? If there is a stick poking you in the ass you f'cking move away from the f'cking stick, not complain until it stops.
I understand you dislike the many unreasonably juvenile fanboys that randomly appear and disappear on PSP Fanboy, but if you are going to sink to their level then you are being a hypocrite in insulting them.
Why are so many telling you to get the f'ck out of here? You are being a troll, that's why, just like all those fanboys you dislike. There are plenty of sites offering what you want, gaming news with light bias, but you insist on this little crusade of yours to change a fanboy site to meet your personal standards.
You are the only person complaining about the status of these fanboy sites. Everyone gets it but you.
Posted at 10:49AM on Nov 12th 2006 by amethystperspective