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Is this the game that was announced literally years ago by a Japanese developer, I think Jetfighter X or something like that? Too lazy to google.

What interests me about that screenshot is the landscape and potential for combat while diving in and out of winding canyons... THAT could be quite cool.

Look at the angry Ninty-fanboy Joystiq blogger, comparing the PSP to the 3DO. Nice.

Fox, you're nothing more than the average defensive DS Fanboy. I see it now, and I've wasted untold minutes responding to what I initially took for an honest misunderstanding.

Did Alisha's blog say only that Sony's Koller denounced plans to drop the PSP price? No. Where is it written that people must only respond to that one point, and not the rest? The MP3 comment, the citing of the sales figures yet again, etc.

Again, WHY POST THIS? You just handed the little wannabe thug all the attention he so obviously craves - and isn't getting from mommy & daddy.

This, plus all the other broken, shattered PSP vids/pics and the dumbass fanboy chat session that was posted, what gives? It's not interesting, it's not news, it's not worth the bandwidth.

I've said before how good a job you and Chris do, but this just isn't worthy of this or any other site except maybe 'America's Biggest F*cktard Videos'.

The PSP doesn't entirely lack innovative games: Loco Roco, Gitaroo Man, Mercury 1 & 2, etc. Field Commander isn't innovative - it's a fairly standard turn based strat. I think you mean 'original' or 'exclusive' which I agree, the PSP could use more platform-specific titles.

...Even if they're new editions of existing games like Katamari or Medal of Honor (or Mario Kart on the DS, for example), the PSP needs to buck the reputation of PS1 and PS2 hand-me-downs.

Jason, NPD numbers (the ones most quoted online) are good for noting trends, but they lack online sales numbers and others, they're not exactly reporting the whole story. Even so, since the Lite launch and then aain with the two new colors, the DS has been pulling strongly away from the PSP.

278K vs. 146K for August, DS vs, PSP respectively. PSP software performance is at the bottom of the charts according to NPD, as well. 876K vs the DS second to last place 1,083,000. By comparison, the PSP outsold the DS in August of 2005, 167K to 103K.

This tells us a few things - the Lites and hotter games have over doubled DS sales, and that PSP sales have slipped, but not by that much, especially considering it got no new models, colors or price drops (phat) like the DS did. Again, remember these numbers aren't absolute - just take them as indicators of sales rather than total US sales.

I've said this at PSP Fanboy: Sony needs to do three things prior to Christmas to save the PSP from sharper decline: 1). Price decrease, 2). PS1 downloads CHEAP and 3). New colors. After the holiday, they need to follow that up with 4). Redesigned PSP model and 5). Downloadable music and video server ala iTunes. If they do NONE of the above, I'll be the first to tell you the PSP is never going to regain momentum against the DS in the USA. We can pretty much forget Japan unless Sony comes out with an Uber Hentai PSP Pack for Y10,000 that comes with several hits of crack.

That's if Nintendo kicks back from here on. If they get even more aggressive with with pricing, more new hardware editions and get more blockbuster games topping the charts, Sony may simply have no chance with this PSP gen. I don't know. PSP2 vs. the next 'true' GBA might be interesting, though.

Fox, you've been projecting since the start. I've repeatedly told you what the relevance of my post was: I spoke to the content and tone of the blog, the fact that it was one of TWO posted that day citing 'losing PSP' sales and the subsequent comments by DS fans... And that's just this one blog.

Apprently so miffed that I'd dare to 'come here' and question Alisha's blog, you proceeded to go after ME and not my argument - that I was a troll, implying it's all due to me preferring the PSP, citing my participation at PSP Fanboy, ANYTHING that might disqualify me having any opinion. Your strawmen went up and down like targets at a carnival shooting contest. You even tried to say nobody here had bashed the PSP! Hilarious.

My original post cited the blog and made direct comment on this rabid basher attitude I find prevalent among the Nintendo faithful. And no, it's NOT as common to see such things in the Sony forums, which is my point. If there was as much DS bashing on the PSP sites as there is PSP bashing on the DS sites, I'd probably get my news from IGN and Gamespot only.

Disagree with the points I made, but you can stop with this diversionary idea that it somehow had nothing to do with Alisha's blog, because it did. I did write it, after all.

Thus far, you've erected the following strawmen against my points, none of them actually countering the points I've made:

Me: This us vs. them mentality is pointless.
Fox: You should expect this mentality and not comment on it.

Me: Posting two blogs mentioning higher Japan sales is petty.
Fox: You're a troll. I was wrong about you being 'clear minded'. This blog has nothing to do with what you're saying. You prefer the PSP so your opinion doesn't count, whereas those of us who prefer the DS, well, OUR opinions on the PSP still count.

Me: We're all gamers, why argue about two systems that both have merits? Why bash?
Fox: Nobody is bashing the PSP here. You should go back to PSP Fanboy. You shouldn't come over here.

Me: "We'll be over here playing with one of our DS Lites. You guys go ahead with your mp3 player handheld."

People have been calling PSP brick executables 'viruses' since the first ones made the scene. It's just another example of media hype superceding truth. Far more sensational and attention-grabbing to say the PSP has a VIRUS than it is to say the PSP has a program that bricks your machine, but only if you're stupid enough to run it.

Fox, time to give it up. I tried to be civil and present a point of view that 1). didn't diminish or denegrate the DS in any way, shape or form and 2). was entirely relevant to this blog insofar as the frequency of this sort of blog goes beyong simply reporting DS success.

Stars, you know as well as I do that I'm not trolling here, nor am I attacking the DS. Sad that what seemed to be some degree of sobering of your perspective is so easily tossed aside by overdefensive antagonistic rejection of any opinion that doesn't fall into lockstep with the aggro Nintendo fanboy mantra of 'everything else is crap, we win, neener-neener' etc.

"I wish DS Fanboy had a filter where I could get the awesome informitave stories and not this PSP hating flamebait dribble."

I was wishing the very same thing...