curl-6 said:
PSP was great piece of kit for its time, though it does have to be remembered it wasn't just the PS2 in the home console space at the time, but also the more powerful Gamecube and Xbox, and the gap there was quite considerable. |
Yeah, Xbox in particular was a beast of a console, but it cost Microsoft a fortune, they were selling at huge losses, and most of all it launched like 21 months after the PS2. Dreamcast is also from the same generation, and was by far the most powerful console until the PS2 came out later. PSP is pretty much a portable Dreamcast.
I used PS2/PSP because it's the most relevant comparison to PS5/Switch2 with launch dates in mind (PS2/GBA is certainly not!). GameCube and Xbox launched 18-21~ months after the PS2. Back then, a 1-2 year gap typically meant significant advancement in technology. Dreamcast launched under 2.5 years after the N64, yet the difference was generational. In the handheld space, technology moved even faster. GBA (2001) and PSP (2005) were like 2 generations apart lol. We're talking 2D vs 2nd gen 3D. The price difference helped of course, but still crazy when you think about it.
