Gamegear more powerful but defeated by Gameboy

Nintendo 64 more powerful but defeated by the Playstation

Gamecube and Xbox more powerful but defeated by the Playstation 2

PSP more powerful but defeated by the Nintendo DS

PS3 and XBOX 360 more powerful but defeated by the Wii

With the talk of the PSP2 trying to be as poweful as the PS3 , I think that we are here for another victory for the less powerful console, the Nintendo 3DS.

no, Expensive = defeat.

More processing power often comes at the expense of being a more expensive system, that launches later, and is more difficult and expensive to develop for; and, in the case of handheld devices, has a shorter battery life. Or to put it another way, the negatives of increasing processing power beyond a certain level generally are far greater than the advantage it brings.

We won't know if this is true of the PSP 2 until more details about the PSP2 and the 3DS are released; but if the 3DS is released in April 2011, at $200 (or less) and has a 12 hour (or greater) battery life and the PSP is released in mid 2012, at $300 (or more) and has a 6 hour (or less) battery life the pattern would likely continue.

That's plain not true.

And that's why the 3DS is semi-doomed, wasn't for Sony being even more stupid.

It's has not been proven untrue yet.

//nevermind

did i miss something?

PS2?

wasnt Ps2 cheaper than xbox and GC when they came out?