That's what they said about the Wonder Swan, and the Sega Nomad, and the Neo Geo Lynx, and on and on.
The Game Boy has been out for 15 years. If another company could have taken over the majority of the market, they would have done it by now.
In case you've not noticed, Sony has their stuff together better than the others did.
-=Mike
Yes, but Sony has to realize that the handheld market is very different from the home console market. Right now it seems they're trying to cram a lot of technology into a very small device and not doing a very effective job of it. With the moving disc media, this thing is going to eat batteries faster than Michael Moore in front of a 20-piece KFC bucket. Plus, Sony doesn't exactly have a reputation for designing durable products. That might fly when you've got a stationary device which sits under the TV set all the time, but not with something which you can take with you. However, that might not be a problem, considering people from Sony have said that the PSP is going to be played mostly at home (?). Not only that, but all that technology is going to cost a lot. With Sony's recent financial troubles, they really aren't going to want to sell a new product at a big loss, especially when it comes from practically their only division which makes money. Not only that, but the idea of watching movies on it is pretty stupid, in my opinion. Arepeople going to want to buy a separate "UMD" version of a movie just so they can watch it on the go? Do people even want to watch movies on the go? Plus, the PSP is leaving a lot of people unimpressed, especially since VERY little is known about it:
http://www.ipodlounge.com/articles_more.php?id=3924_0_8_0_C