In the short term DS will outsell PSP 2 to 1. This will be due to popular handheld software (Mario, Rockman.EXE, Yu-Gi-Oh, etc) as well as lower pricing and a launch headstart. PSP will likely have a higher installed base at the end of it's 10ish year cycle however, partially due to lower pricing accellerating sales/growth but also due to the fact that DS will probably only have 2-4 year lifespan. Neither platform will pass 55 million units total (what GBAs managed in just 4 years) however.
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Anyone else think PSP is gonna destroy DS in sales?
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psycho_snake
I went to WAGs boutique and all I got was a sniff
Solidsnake, If you look at things from Nintedo's position, then they have been doing everything right, they've just never really been pushed and they have had no major competition. I'm sure that if Sony didn't announce the PSP last E3, then Nintendo would have never bothered developing the DS. Sony themselves made a mistake announcing the PSP a year early, they could have put Nintendo into a really deep hole.
Lord Error
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They have an article in the latest OPM where they quote several famous developers talking about the PSP post E3 showing, and when you see some of the frenzied excitement echoed by them, you can't help but think it's destined for success.
It's almost funny reading such important people saying such things, especially if you are used to all the bitterness of this forum, where it seems like it's almost a taboo to say anything optimistic about that handheld.
It's almost funny reading such important people saying such things, especially if you are used to all the bitterness of this forum, where it seems like it's almost a taboo to say anything optimistic about that handheld.
psycho_snake
I went to WAGs boutique and all I got was a sniff
I;m not trying to sound rude, but you don't see many teenagers or adults playing on their GBA's in public. I don't think that people are gonna buy a PSP if they are not willing to use it in public, although if Sony manage to produce some really good games, then that could all change.sonycowboy said:
psycho_snake
I went to WAGs boutique and all I got was a sniff
Since when have sony ever let their products have a 10 year life cycle? I think they are going to have to do what MS did and take a loss on the machine in order to gain market share. If they manage to get a price that can compete with the DS, then Nintendo are going to have a hard time.jarrod said:
sonycowboy
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psycho_snake said:
What I'm saying is that if people buy it, it won't be for movies, because there won't be more than a handful and it won't be for audio, because it doesn't support MP3. Which means people actually would need to buy the audio from Sony's connect site or convert their existing music to that format.
What you're saying is that they won't buy it for the games. If that's true, then what you're really saying is that it's not going to sell.
SolidSnakex
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psycho_snake said:
Sony was smart for announcing it so early. Just look at all the hype it built up over a year with Sony basically releasing no info on it. That's how Sony operates and it works really well. They'll announce something and then the media basically runs around trying to find info on it and basically ends up hyping the system for them. Then Sony announces a little more but still leaves alot out and once again the media starts hyping it. At E3 they'd always planned to just show the hardware and some things it was capable of graphically. They did that now at E3 they've got a chance to show all the games they've got lined up and to show it in playable form. As much credit as Sony gets from being marketing geniuses, alot of it doesn't even come from them. It comes from the media being so hungry to find out what's going on with them that they're steadily hyping it for Sony.
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