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kowenicki said:
why do I see sony fans in a few stories and threads on here really having a go at the 3DS?

whats the problem guys?

Amazing we never saw any posts like this from you when every PS Move thread/story was being derailed by Nintendo fans...

@ The Thread:
Wow... Just wow.



                            

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Again I ask what makes the PSP more mature?



Carl2291 said:

@ The Thread:
Wow... Just wow.

What? Were you expecting something like this in a gaming forum:



chichi-101 said:
Again I ask what makes the PSP more mature?

it's the best multimedia device on the market period. That alone makes it more suitable for mature audiences, than just a gaming machine aka the DS. Or should I say the DSi, which is trying to get on that market by implementing multimedia features.

Having a DS I can say it isn't geared to the mature crowd as much as the PSP is, since the PSP offers a much more mature library, or should I say a libary that isn't too appropriate for a younger audience(although sony is changing this with there 1st party ip). Sony's main target the the PSP was ofcourse the teen/adult audience, while nintendo's audience for the DS was always for everyone.



 

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chichi-101 said:
Max King of the Wild said:
chichi-101 said:
Wow, the 3DS has everybody in an uproar (mainly Sony fans).

I'm want to know how Sony brought 3D gaming to the mainstream?


See khuutra? Wtf is this? I see no uproar on sonys fans part... (in this thread at least... where this post was made)

I'm not limiting this "uproar" (dramatic... I know) to this post, nor this website only, but I see thats a bit unfair. Its quite annoying though having people state that the DS is only for kids, considering I'm in my 20's, and love my DS. I was being just as baseless(IMO) as the people who defended the "DS is only for kids" statement that has been flying around this post.

I'm want to honestly know though what makes the PSP so much more "mature"?  Seriously.

I kind of have to agree with this person, I see many people with in the 20-30 age range with DS' here in the UK from business people on the trains to someone simply playing it in the park, we've even had stories of bus drivers being fired because they play them while driving. When someone says the DS is for kids the sight of what I've seen makes it laughable somewhat, games like Professor Layton, Brain Training and Hotel Dusk are popular because of this group, I've seen some people of the same ages with PSPs but I've yet to see as many people in the same age range with them as compared to DS' and in fact I see more teenagers and young adolescents with them who are ironically a younger group in age average.

 

Many kids may have a DS but to constantly label kids as the main market is being close minded as games like Layton and such would never sell to them, the DS userbase if anything is more an evened out demographic with a broad age range. Even if you try and bring in Mario and co these games aren't predominantly kids games as a broad selection of people buy them which is the example of the DS approach, it's broad for ages 5-90, anyone can buy it and find what they're looking for which can't really be said of the PSP, I'm 24 and own both a PSP and DS along with a Wii/360 and PS3.



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first Patcher, now sony, it hasn't been released but media starts to boycott the 3ds already

off topic: wow lol 240 posts so fast



leo-j said:

it's the best multimedia device on the market period. That alone makes it more suitable for mature audiences, than just a gaming machine aka the DS. Or should I say the DSi, which is trying to get on that market by implementing multimedia features.

And that's why it sells so much ......... no wait this's the best multimedia device in the market acording to the masses.

Even in Japan sells more than the PSP, for me the PSP is a gaming handheld and that's the reason of why I keep my PSP-1000 If I want to see movies in a tiny screen, listen music with poor quiality or get useless apps I'll get a iPhone/Pod



M.U.G.E.N said:
dsister44 said:
Translation: "Why didn't we think of it first?"

Nope,

Translation: We did some research and we think no one really cares :P

and in the same research, it shows people really care about 3D gaming on home consoles!



MikeB predicts that the PS3 will sell about 140 million units by the end of 2016 and triple the amount of 360s in the long run.

leo-j said:
chichi-101 said:
Again I ask what makes the PSP more mature?

it's the best multimedia device on the market period. That alone makes it more suitable for mature audiences, than just a gaming machine aka the DS. Or should I say the DSi, which is trying to get on that market by implementing multimedia features.

Having a DS I can say it isn't geared to the mature crowd as much as the PSP is, since the PSP offers a much more mature library, or should I say a libary that isn't too appropriate for a younger audience(although sony is changing this with there 1st party ip). Sony's main target the the PSP was ofcourse the teen/adult audience, while nintendo's audience for the DS was always for everyone.


you're really underestimating the iPhone/iPod(touch), do you think it would be so highly demanded if it wasn't at least somewhat better than most of what's out there?

besides, the PC is and always will be the ultimate multimedia device, you can't really argue otherwise



leo-j said:
lvader said:
Didn't Sony call the DS a gimmick?, I bet Nintendo hopes this ones turns out just the same!
Talking of demographics, designing a handeld for 8-9 year olds with dual screen and stylus control makes even less sense than 3D.

They never called the DS a gimmick..also, it wont since SONY has announced long ago that the Playstation 3 will offer 3d gaming/movies this year..

although the need for glasses is there. If a 3d tv costs that much, I can only imagine how much a 3DS will cost with a screen that can do 3D without glasses, if tv's with glasses cost well over 2k.

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3143180

"With the DS, it's fair to say that Nintendo stepped out of the technical race and went for a feature differentiation with the touch screen," Harrison says. "But I fear that it won't have a lasting impact beyond that of a gimmick - so the long-lasting appeal of the platform is at peril as a direct result of that."



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