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Galaki on 13 December 2007

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Zucas on 13 December 2007

hahaha creative



ssj12 on 13 December 2007

Honestly I dont even consider this a lose at all. Sony actually is victorious here. They are the only company to have a successful handheld vs Nintendo.



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omgwtfbbq on 13 December 2007

this thread is full of lose. Diomedes loves throwing around his opinions as if they are facts once again (He seems to have moved on from his "PS sales are undertracked" tactic to a "I don't care that PS are being outsold, I prefer them therefore they are better" tactic.

On topic, that as an absolutely stellar increase by the DS there. I have nothing else to say than that. Surely an increase of that magnitude is not normal.



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Arkk on 13 December 2007
hunter_alien said:
Arkk said:
hunter_alien said:
Game_boy said:

After many weeks of slow sales, the PSP has picked up for the Christmas period in the UK and is finally starting to compete with the DS. I expect the PSP to sell slightly more than the DS next week based on this.

 

 

 

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HAHA ? I really dont know what to say ... its a pretty lame joke thread . Everyone knows the DS is outselling the PSP , but than its outselling everithing else ... the 360 , the PS3 , the PS2 ... oh and even the mighty Wii . Yeah , it became a cult hit , but than lets dont forget , that a couple of years ago , PSP like hardware sales where considered stellar . I bet that MS would have loved to have as many Xboxes on the market , as many PSP will be untill the end of the generation .

 

In the same time , lets dont forget , that the sales for the DS are so high mainly because of their non-game softwares ( Brain Training anyone ? ) , or ultra-softcore games , like NSMB . Hey at least the has a bunch of pretty damn hard games , while all the hard games on the DS are mostly hard because they are frustrating , and usually they are the ones with under 5 rating .

 

So yeah , keep on laughing , because hardcore gamers will go with hardcore handheld , and by that I dont mean the Gizmondo ... or DS .

 

PS : to bad for the good games on the DS , like the recently reeased Dementium ... they usually have bad sales compared with the kiddy Nintendo 1st party games :(


Wow. You really want to get bashed don't you? I am a hardcore gamer and have been since I first started way back in 86. I have more than 25 DS games, almost all of which are in your so called "hardcore" category. I have a PSP as well. I only have 5 PSP games. Do you know why? Because I don't want to play rehashed PS2 games. I would rather play Nintendo's first party "kiddy" games (in your eyes) than worse controlling versions of games that I already had on my PS2. So clearly, the choice of this "hardcore" gamer is DS, not PSP. Here's laughing at you bud.


 How the hell can you proove to me that your a hardcore gamer anyways ?

 

But thats not the point . If you could only find 5 games that you like on the PSP , than the problem is with you , not the cconsole ... I have at this point 43 PSP games , and I have tons of fun with it , thank you ... oh , and what a surprise , from this games only 6 are ports , from wich only 4 are PS2 ports ( the 2 POP games , CTTR  , King Kong )  ... so please get your fact straight .

 

Naznatips : do you actually see how many of those games are 1st party ... if not check again . The PSP is not doing well in software , both 1st and 3rd party games have usually mediocre sales , but the fact that games are actually comming out , and many actually , I would say that the PSP is doing much batter than any of you imply . Also , in most chart there are NO Others numbers , and everyone can agree , that thats the best PSP market at this point by far ( fr software ) . 


1. I'm on this site every single day... shouldn't that be enough to tell you that I play my videogames every once in a while?

 2. There aren't even 43 PSP games that I have a faint interest in. It's not me, it's the types of games they put on the system. If you can find 43 games on the PSP enjoyable, then have fun man. That's really great for you. And by the way... what fact am I supposed to be getting straight? I didn't state any FACTS, just opinion.

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Zucas on 13 December 2007
ssj12 said:
Honestly I dont even consider this a lose at all. Sony actually is victorious here. They are the only company to have a successful handheld vs Nintendo.

 Yes being the most successful loser is victory haha. 



ssj12 on 13 December 2007
RolStoppable said:
ssj12 said:
Honestly I dont even consider this a lose at all. Sony actually is victorious here. They are the only company to have a successful handheld vs Nintendo.

Being outsold by 10:1 isn't losing?

 not when it comes to being the first handheld ever to actually take market share away from a Nintendo brand handheld. Sony won against the overall opinion that you can not successfully compete versus Nintendo in the handheld market. Sony proved everyone wrong.



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FishyJoe on 13 December 2007

If just taking market share is victory, the 360 is winning. The Wii too.



tokilamockingbrd on 13 December 2007

^ I don't consider the PSP a true gaming machine-
I would judge a cell phone by the same standard... heck, some people play their cell phones more than people play there PSP's

We might as well say the I-pod is taking market share from the DS



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HappySqurriel on 13 December 2007
ssj12 said:
RolStoppable said:
ssj12 said:
Honestly I dont even consider this a lose at all. Sony actually is victorious here. They are the only company to have a successful handheld vs Nintendo.

Being outsold by 10:1 isn't losing?

 not when it comes to being the first handheld ever to actually take market share away from a Nintendo brand handheld. Sony won against the overall opinion that you can not successfully compete versus Nintendo in the handheld market. Sony proved everyone wrong.


I'm not bashing the PSP, but how much did this market share cost Sony?

It was rumored at the time of the PSP's release that Sony was losing $200+ on every system sold, which seemed fairly realistic given the cost of similar components for the PSP. The marketing costs of both the PSP and UMD were never covered by sales of PSP games or UMD movies and thus the PSP has been quite the money pit for Sony ...

This isn't the worst thing in the world for a company Sony's size, but it does explain why Sony had sold as well as it did in comparison to all those companies that came before them; pretty much every other company that has entered the market didn't have billions of dollars to lose in exchange for marketshare.