fishamaphone said:
z64dan said:
RolStoppable said:
your mother said:
z64dan said:
...22 million people decided to buy a PSP instead of a DS and an extra game. |
Not necessarily. A percentage of those 22 million could have purchased both portables. |
Or wouldn't have considered to purchase a DS at all. |
Well. I think you can pretty much add all of the PSP sales into a "Money Spent on Gaming" category. Since money is finite, Nintendo did not get THAT money, definitely. They would have had a much higher chance of getting any of that money, if people weren't already buying a PSP. |
What did the PSP do? The PSP sold 20 million units over the course of about 30 months. The PSP established a new brand. The PSP sells software (I don't know how much, but I assume attach rates above 3 units of software per PSP). Does perform better than every other console in any one category? No. Maybe UMD movies, but I don't think tDoes it perform any worse than every other console in any one category? hat was ever really a *main* selling point. If we were to draw out a bell curve, I'd put PSP about half a standard deviation above the mean, right around GC and Xbox, all circumstances considered. More success than failure, but not a success by any stretch of the imagination.
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I'm not so sure it established a new brand as PS was obviously well known. If it did then so did GBA, GBPocket, SNES, 360 etc. I'm not so sure about the 3 units per PSP, taking just million+sellers we have an attach rate of about 0.75 meaning the sub-million sellers have a lot of ground to make up to get to an attach rate of even 2 never mind 3. Following on from this fact I'd hazard an outside bet that the system has a worse attach rate than nearly any game system in history, though I'm aware I could be wrong.
