davygee said:
Biggerboat said:
davygee said:
jstam said:
you really think that the psp is going to get a HUGE sales boost? i honestly doubt it will even make a dint on the charts, maybe an extra 50k for a couple of weeks but thats about it
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I don't think the new look PSP will give the sales a huge boost, but the games coming out in the 3rd and 4th quarters as well as games over the start of next year WILL give the sales a boost. Games like Chains of Olympus and FFVII: Crisis Core will undoubtably give the PSP a hardware boost although not to a ridiculous level. The PSP has seen a continual hardware boost of around 13% each week since the pricedrops in both the EU and NA. I reckon Sony WILL reduce the price of the original PSP once the new model is released on 1st September WW by maybe 20% or so and this will increase sales again. All in all, I reckon the PSP will have more sales this year than they did last year. The PSP is selling 500-600k units every 4 weeks so I reckon it will sell another 4-6m until the end of the year. |
But will these extra PSPs sold help struggling software sales in any meaningfull way? Seriously if you were a developer what would convince you to make a game for the platform? |
What should convince you is looking at sales of Monster Hunter Portable 2. In Japan alone, they have sold near 1.3m units. Good games generally sell well...maybe not amazingly because of the piracy issue, but generally, the games sell enough to make back their money. |
But for every Monster Hunter 2 I can throw you multiple games on other platforms that have significantly outperformed it. GoW, Wii Sports, one of a bout a million DS games most of which I'd guess would have cost less to develop than MH2, I think you get my point.
It's not impossible to make a profit developing for PSP but it's far more unlikely than almost any other current platform. Again if I'm a developer why should I choose PSP?
