Can happen, but probabl won't. Most technitians get off on higher tech. Even Nintendos people need to have their leashes on them.

Easy to use, intuitive. Easy input. Excellent battery life. Cheaper, but packs a tech punch. Launch software needs to appeal to a wide market. Should have some support outside of games, even if it's not the focus. Marketing to eveyone and not niche consumers. If these aren't met, then the Nintendo won't be toppled unless Nintendo stops following this guideline. This is not an assumption, but standard market behaviour.

PSP won't pass DS becuase the input will never be fully accepted by the masses for a game machine. The biggest flaw on the PSP is the UMD. If they got rid of UMD and changed the screen to touch. This would make it easier to use, cut costs and increase battery life. Package with some excellent user software that masses want to use. Then The PSP could really boosts sales. So who knows maybe in an itteration or 2.

So far, Nintendo has bested the Game Gear, the Lynx, the Neo-Geo Pocket, the Wonder Swan/WS Color, and the PSP.

Only the last of these, the PSP, was thought to have a chance to dethrone Nintendo. Almost all of them had "more technologically advanced" units than what Nintendo was offering at the time.

However, the 3Ps -- portability, power, and price -- are why Nintendo has continued to dominate. That is unlikely to change in the near term.

Mike from Morgantown

Not for the foreseeable future.