This morning in Seattle, Nintendo made its most aggressive attack on Sony’s PSP project to date. Following months of staff members whispering to any member of the press that would listen, constantly sewing seeds of doubt regarding the Portable PlayStation, head of sales and marketing for the US, the infamous Reggie Fils-Amie, landed the first on-the-record blow.
“Let me tell you something,” bellowed Fils-Amie with something of a glint in his eye. “Those little women at the Tokyo Game Show with those portable consoles strapped to them… What you didn’t see is that those women were having to go recharge the batteries every two hours!”
This is the first time that anyone has gone on the record from any company to speculate about the power life of the PSP. The fact that it comes from Nintendo, a firm that traditionally ignores its competitors, is surprising to say the least.
Fils-Amie continued, “We have gone on the record to state that the Nintendo DS will have battery life comparable to the Game Boy Advance SP. Nowhere will you find any mention of the other machines power life. And you have to wonder why…”
If this news proves true, it will prove disasterous for SCE’s PR plans for the PSP. The news, if indeed it is news, will have to be closely manicured before it is presentable to a public that quite simply demands more life per-charge from its handheld devices.
As do you, we await Sony’s clarification on the issue with great interest.
In other interesting news, Fils-Amie, in what must now be seen as the second coming of the Reggie-lution, (remember, the name-taking, the ass-kicking) made several references that the PSP is being developed only in California. Which seemed rather strange to us.
Stay tuned for more on all this marvellous handbag swinging in the coming weeks.