Japan is not gonna forget about the PS3, make no mistake.

[Godot]

souixan said:

makingmusic476 said:

ZenfoldorVGI said:

mrduckbear said:

PSP anyone?

even the software is starting to sell now...it's definately a crazy market, but they don't forget about consoles that are behind.

Monster hunter was the selling point for it, and i think Sony should fight hard to at least make it multi-plat for Wii/PS3 on that monster hunter game. but either way, they don't forget and consoles that are dead last can make a big comeback and PSP is the one to look at.

 

The PSP didn't make a comeback.

If the DS stopped selling ANY UNITS right now, and the PSP's numbers reached 100,000 a week consistantly, it would take it 2.5 years to catch the DS.

At its current pace, it wouldn't catch the DS for 25 years.

That's just in Japan. Not to mention the rest of the world.

The PSP will never beat the DS in Japan. Especially in software. The proven sellers are all from the action MMO genre. They aren't even first party.

No, I don't think the PSP has comeback on anything. In fact, I don't think any console has ever made a "comeback" in Japan. 360 might be the first.

If you're suggesting that the PS3 take the PSP strategy, then you're suggesting that Sony wait around until the Wii saturates the whole market, and then move in with a slim model to take advantage of the console boom the Wii had undoubtedly created.

If Sony can keep over a third of the console market in Japan by the end of this gen, it would have been a success for the PS3, I think.

The PSP did make a comeback.  It went from being half dead to being the top selling device in Japan week to week.

It doesn't have to beat the DS for it to have made a comeback.  By that logic, the 360 would have to at least beat the ps3, if not the Wii, to make a comeback in the region, something you must consider to be possible as shown in your post.

 

Um hi, the PSP is the top selling device largely due to the fact that the DS has reached market saturation where it isn't selling many more and reduced drastically it's amount sold. The PSP still pales in comparison on Software and that's where the developers make their cash. If games don't sell developers slowly start to waver and leave the format behind and it hurts sales more. The games selling well on PSP are pretty few and far between you cannot hide the fact.

The proof is in the pudding look at the veritable game drought on the PSP...

In the end the PSP and DS have been going for a while and PSP started in the lead and was pegged as some kind of clear winner. I would say if anybody made a comeback Nintendo did in the DS and Wii not Sony, not yet anyway but you can still hold out hope. Things change all the time and the market can be very fickle but I don't think PS3 will ever have the mass market appeal Wii does

True, I think the PSP sells mostly to DS users and people that want a sort of IPOD for cheap.