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Zim on 13 May 2012
hunter_alien said:

Actually its the 8th year on the market, and believe me on a ww basis the PSP will easily have a 10 year lifecycle The thing is that the Vita killed the PSP in the US while its still doing some decent numbers in EMEA and Japan.


... It was released December 2004 in Japan, March 2005 America and September 2005 EU. Any of those dates means it's at least in it's 7th year or sixth. Either 7 years 5 months for Japan, 7 years 2 months for NA or 6 years 8 months for the EU. So no, not a chance that on a worldwide basis it will have a 10 year cycle. 

In Japan it's possible. NA and EU? No way. Even in Japan I would say it's doubtful. It looks like Sony may have already finished releasing games for it. Another 2 years 7 months? Unlikely.

Also I'm pretty sure when you use a winking smiley you should probably check you are right first. Or even look at the numbers. 




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Aj_habfan on 13 May 2012
Zim said:
hunter_alien said:

Actually its the 8th year on the market, and believe me on a ww basis the PSP will easily have a 10 year lifecycle The thing is that the Vita killed the PSP in the US while its still doing some decent numbers in EMEA and Japan.


... It was released December 2004 in Japan, March 2005 America and September 2005 EU. Any of those dates means it's at least in it's 7th year or sixth. Either 7 years 5 months for Japan, 7 years 2 months for NA or 6 years 8 months for the EU. So no, not a chance that on a worldwide basis it will have a 10 year cycle. 

In Japan it's possible. NA and EU? No way. Even in Japan I would say it's doubtful. It looks like Sony may have already finished releasing games for it. Another 2 years 7 months? Unlikely.

Also I'm pretty sure when you use a winking smiley you should probably check you are right first. Or even look at the numbers. 

Who the hell cares? 

PSP might last 9 years instead of the stupidely announced 10 year plan, woopidty fucking doo. 



Galaki on 14 May 2012

How long it last depends on the demand, not because Sony planned it so.
The same goes for other consoles. The Wii is following PSP within a year.



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Zim on 14 May 2012
Aj_habfan said:
Zim said:
hunter_alien said:

Actually its the 8th year on the market, and believe me on a ww basis the PSP will easily have a 10 year lifecycle The thing is that the Vita killed the PSP in the US while its still doing some decent numbers in EMEA and Japan.


... It was released December 2004 in Japan, March 2005 America and September 2005 EU. Any of those dates means it's at least in it's 7th year or sixth. Either 7 years 5 months for Japan, 7 years 2 months for NA or 6 years 8 months for the EU. So no, not a chance that on a worldwide basis it will have a 10 year cycle. 

In Japan it's possible. NA and EU? No way. Even in Japan I would say it's doubtful. It looks like Sony may have already finished releasing games for it. Another 2 years 7 months? Unlikely.

Also I'm pretty sure when you use a winking smiley you should probably check you are right first. Or even look at the numbers. 

Who the hell cares? 

PSP might last 9 years instead of the stupidely announced 10 year plan, woopidty fucking doo. 

If you don't care then why come to a gaming forum? Why enter the thread? The point is that people who believe Sony when it talks about 10 year plans are deluded. Like I said, it is always up to the market to decide that. Will the PS3 have a 10 year span? Possibly but it hasn't even reached it's sixth year yet so has a LONG way to go. However we can pretty much guarantee that when the PS4 is announced and Sony likely again talk about a 10 year plan there will be fools nodding their heads.



Turkish says and I'm allowed to quote that: Uncharted 3 and God Of War 3 look better than Unreal Engine 4 games will or the tech demo does. Also the Naughty Dog PS3 ENGINE PLAYS better than the UE4 ENGINE.

SWORDF1SH on 14 May 2012
Zim said:

If you don't care then why come to a gaming forum? Why enter the thread? The point is that people who believe Sony when it talks about 10 year plans are deluded. Like I said, it is always up to the market to decide that. Will the PS3 have a 10 year span? Possibly but it hasn't even reached it's sixth year yet so has a LONG way to go. However we can pretty much guarantee that when the PS4 is announced and Sony likely again talk about a 10 year plan there will be fools nodding their heads.


PS1 1994-2006

PS2 2000 - present day

ps3 2006 - present day

psp  2005 - present day

I don't get your point. You say that Sony don't decide but they make these claims on there knowledge of the market and how long they plan on supporting that console. They proved that they can do it, twice with PS1 and PS2. The PS3 Just had it's two best years halfway through its 10 year plan and when sales do drop they will release a slim PS3 (no we havent had slim yet) for $99- $150.

The only console that looks likely to not make the 10 plan is the PSP but they still had good intentions of honoring the 10 life plan. But we still don't know their plans for PSP.



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Ajescent on 14 May 2012
SWORDF1SH said:
Zim said:

If you don't care then why come to a gaming forum? Why enter the thread? The point is that people who believe Sony when it talks about 10 year plans are deluded. Like I said, it is always up to the market to decide that. Will the PS3 have a 10 year span? Possibly but it hasn't even reached it's sixth year yet so has a LONG way to go. However we can pretty much guarantee that when the PS4 is announced and Sony likely again talk about a 10 year plan there will be fools nodding their heads.


PS1 1994-2006

PS2 2000 - present day

ps3 2006 - present day

psp  2005 - present day

I don't get your point. You say that Sony don't decide but they make these claims on there knowledge of the market and how long they plan on supporting that console. They proved that they can do it, twice with PS1 and PS2. The PS3 Just had it's two best years halfway through its 10 year plan and when sales do drop they will release a slim PS3 (no we havent had slim yet) for $99- $150.

The only console that looks likely to not make the 10 plan is the PSP but they still had good intentions of honoring the 10 life plan. But we still don't know their plans for PSP.


those are respectable numbers, I'm very impressed. even if the psp doesn't make the 10yr mark, I still say it's respectable for a first attempt into the handheld market.



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killerzX on 14 May 2012
Zim said:
I could be wrong but wasn't the PSP also meant to have a 10 year life? It's only at the start of it's seventh and is already beginning to disappear. First party support seems to be entirely gone with only 4 titles the entirety of last year and I don't think any planned for this year.

Although I think everyone always knew the whole 10 year life thing was nonsense. It is and always will be a decision the market makes, not a company.

10 year life in EU and NA? Verging on no chance. In Japan? Ehhh not likely. It will probably still be being sold but I doubt Sony themselves will still be making and publishing games.


its actually been 7.5 years by december it will be 8 years old. i think they have come pretty close to having that 10 year plan.



arcane_chaos on 14 May 2012

the gamestop that I frequent still sells PSP games.



oldschoolfool on 15 May 2012

not really that shocking. The psp had a decent run,but Sony could have done a better job supporting it.



bouzane on 15 May 2012

Last year i bought a pile of Xbox games at my local EB for $099-$2.49 a piece when they were clearing out the stock and now that opportunity has arisen again. It's a shame that I didn't wait to buy all of the PSP games that I wanted :/