Content is King

a truism, and not just in the world of broadcast television.

on the question of why the Nintendo DS had outsold the technologically much more sophisticated PSP by an order of magnitude, the President of Sony Worldwide Studios, Phil Harrison, recently admitted in an interview with mtv.com:

Our achievement has been to deliver console-quality gaming in the palm of your hand. But that could also be considered a missed opportunity — that we have yet to really deliver PSP games that speak with their own voice and stand for what the machine can do on its own.

I could rant here about technological fetishism, but instead i'll just point out the obvious: what matters is what the device enables, not what it does. Good gameplay beats good frame rates, every time.