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Originally posted by vurel
( reverse compatability was a major factor in PS2's advantage over GCN and Xbox.)
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No it wasn't
And anyway, easy development is no longer an advantage in the game market... and Sony proved this. All GCN and Xbox's easy development got them was some faster ports of Ps2 games. Ok, Easy development is an advantage, only if you are #1, but when you are #1 hard development can help too.
GBA of course, is #1, so easy development will help
. But the hardware differences will make up for this, I mean, GBA may not even be close as powerful, so some developers will be able to do stuff on PSP that simply can't be done on GBA.
My question is, if PSP releases, and it outsells GBA month to mont for a year, and it's userbase gets up around 2-5 million, what should Nintendo do? I mean, if they release a new console thier userbase will no longer be a factor.... and how would they have to go about competing with PSP? Make it like PSP just better in every way... or make it like a newer better GBA and keep the carts. Or, just ignore that PSP is winning and keep GBA alive longer?