Nintendo slams PSP in amazing two hour battery claim!

Burn. Good thing my girlfriend has enough energy all night long. No recharging needed.

Definetly strange for Nintendo to be so brutal out front. I suppose though that most of their revenue is through the handheld market and they really need to keep it. Can Sony afford to have these claims made against them? I dunno, but it sure makes it interesting.

The PSP is something im not going to lose my interest in though. It is a seriously cool looking piece of kit but the battery issues are a problam and harmful to its reputation.

Its screens like these that keep me wanting one though.

It looks sexy as a very sexy thing with a particularly good reasons for being sexy.

But what's this strange rubber stomp pad thingy?

My guess is that its a grip for your thumb to rest on. The PSP looks particularly slippery so it coulf be for that. Anything else would be covered by your hand.

Yeah, could be, it's right next to the d-pad, so I guess it's to put your thumb on, and give you leverage on the control buttons without you making direction changes.

That is the analogue controller.

No doubt it's all hands on deck for this hand held battle. I feel Nintendo are now in a David and Goliath situation, they used to be on top and are now cornered by Sony and MS. They must use the hand held market to fight back from what would otherwise spell doom for them.

I still find the PSP battery life claims unbelievable, but if true I won't be buying it for a long time. I don't understand why it could be so hard for them to sort out the battery biz, because it's very easy to see from the history that battery life is a major factor in a hand helds chances.

PSP rright now is looking like the GG once did. Very nice graphically and gamewise but a suck ass short battery life. This used to hurt me really bad because as everyone knows when playing games normal time passes quickly while you are engrossed.

Perhaps a rethink is needed by Sony, because their decision to aim for PSP so high graphically might be costing them dear.

I have always used rechargeble batteries and a battery charger for all the years I've had a GB, giving me about 24 hours play on the original GB, and about 20-24 on my GBA (based on 4AA batteries). If given the option perhaps PSP should just use normal batteries, or give away 2 rechargeable ones with it, so when you charge them you never have to buy anymore unless you really need them.

Either way something has to be done if the PSP news is true, and fast.

I'm imagining a Microsoft handheld. Powered by dual P4 Xeon processors, it would be a convergence device - part console, part space heater.

It would also double as a door-stop for houses with very big doors (Windsor Castle etc), or a way for very short people to reach very high shelves.

No way! That couldnt be an analogue control. It doesnt have enough height from the unit to move it correctly.

Sorry but it is the analogue controller.

It isn't a stick, but a grippy button that slides in the direction it is moved.

Its v.clever but I;m not sure its going to be that popular because of its position.

I cant imagine it being that clever. Personally i like the analogue stick to tilt in the direction not slide about. Plus if you are using the d-pad for a game and lean on the analogue your hand is going to slide about.

which is better:

A) a lone thumb that controls both a dpad and a piece of rubber at the same time, or ..

B) a thumb controlling a dpad and the other controlling a theoretically HUGE number of buttons? (the touchpad can be programmed to act like keyboard, for example)

GO FOR THE THROAT! THE THROAT!!!!

Seriously, it's nice to see Nintendo get aggressive. The worrying thing is, he's right; we've now heard from 5 sources that the current power supply life is 2 hours.

Hell, the original figures said that was for movie playback, but they were from SONY. Did you really think they'd admit they were beaten? This is the company that, after around 3 years, has finally admitted MP3 is far superior to ATRAC!

It is worrying. Terrifying, even; Sony expect you to pay $300 (£300, as all consoles come out on a $1-£1 conversion) for something not currently able to even last a long train journey. In fact, they expect LOTS of people to do it.

I think they finally found a market they can't handle.